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Arts / Entertainment Arts, Entertainment And Culture Gambling And Betting Activities 92 - Gambling and betting activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 December 2017
Employment effect (start)
16 December 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Betclic group, an online sports betting site, has announced the recruitment of 100 employees for the opening of its future head office which will be based in Bordeaux in April 2018. The group plans to transfer about 150 people, from the current head office in Paris and from an office in London, to this site. In addition to the transferred workforce, the group announced the recruitment of 100 people in Bordeaux. Betclic was created in 2005 in London. The group currently employs 450 people. In the next five years, the ambition is to double the size of the company. The sector is growing strongly, by 15% each year, but the competition is fierce.
Sources
15 December 2017: Sud-Ouest
Citation
Eurofound (2017), BetClic, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 92874, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92874.
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