Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
On 10 September 2010, the IT company Ericpo Telecom announced that it will recruit 600 workers in its newly opened facility in Kraków. Ericpol Telecom provides engineering services for the world's largest telecom operators, develops software for the telecom industry and provides outsourcing and consulting services.
Ericpol Telecom is a Polish company, which has operated in the IT field since 1991 and has around 1000 employees. The company has offices in three Polish cities- Lodz, Krakow and Warsaw, and has branches in Sweden, Ukraine and Belarus.
Eurofound (2010), Ericpol Telecom, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 71079, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/71079.
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