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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.20 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
5 October 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
American home appliances producer Whirlpool has announced that it will create more jobs at its shared services centre in Łódź than it initially declared in March 2017. Currently, the company plans to create in total 300 positions what implies that additional 100 employees will be hired. The centre will provide back office services in 20 languages to company’s units operating in EMEA region. Whirlpool has decided to consolidate all financial operations and relocate them from its units in Dehli (India), Dublin (Ireland) and Fabriano (Italy) to Łódź. Whirlpool has been operating in Łódź for 18 years; currently, the company employs about 3,000 people in the city.
Sources
5 October 2017: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Whirlpool, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 92241, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92241.
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