28/07/2009

Almost 300 New Jobs Announced

Some 280 newly created jobs have been announced for Dublin and Newry today.

Two separate companies made the announcements with French-owned call centre operator Teleperformance creating 200 jobs in Newry and business software firm SuccessFactors bringing up to 40 new jobs in Dublin.

Teleperfomance, based at the same site as Sainsbury's Newry store at The Quays Shopping Centre, will deliver a customer helpline for the grocery chain.

Meanwhile, the California-based company SuccessFactors is to establish a new European multilingual business centre in Dundrum to service SME clients over the next three years.

Lars Dalgaard, Chief Executive Officer of SuccessFactors said: "Our investment in the new Dublin office is an integral part of supporting our customers. Dublin's international reputation in multilingual activity, combined with the ready availability of a diversity of multilingual talent in one city, its European air access, and its competitive costs relative to other European locations made it the logical choice for us."

The company has more than 2,700 customers and 5.1 million end users and its applications are deployed across 60 industries in over 185 countries in 31 languages.

The firm yesterday posted break-even quarterly results that beat expectations, saying that it saw small signs of recovery, and narrowed its 2009 loss expectations.

(DW/JM)

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