25/04/2013

eBay Opens New Dundalk Centre

eBay, the ecommerce company, have opened its new official European operations centre in Dundalk.

The online retailers new Co Louth facility will provide support for customers of eBay and its payment service subsidiary, PayPal, across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

It has been ten years since eBay first opened a customer service centre in Ireland and alongside its subsidiary PayPal, the two businesses currently employ nearly 2,500 people in Ireland.

In February, eBay said it would add 450 more.

Since then the companies have filled nearly a third of the vacancies, with the remainder to be in place by 2015.

(H/CD)


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