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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.10 - Warehousing and storage
285 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 August 2017
Employment effect (start)
4 August 2017
Foreseen end date
31 October 2017
Description
Belgian logistics service provider H.Essers announced the creation of up to 285 new jobs at the warehouse near Bucharest. The Bucharest warehouse will be expanded by 10,000 square metres after the company invested € 7 million into the construction of the new space, which will become available at the end of October 2017.
Currently, the company has 850 employees working in the logistics centres in Bucharest, Oradea (Bihor County), Sibiu (Sibiu County), Roman (Neamt County), Timisoara (Timis County) and an operational hub in Curtici (Arad County).
The Bucharest warehouse counts 180 members of staff.
H.Essers has centres in 15 countries across the world with a total employee base of 4,500.
Sources
4 August 2017: Ziarul Financiar
4 August 2017: .business-review.eu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), H.Essers, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 91687, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91687.
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