Wipro Limited, global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced the launch of an Automotive Center of Excellence (CoE) in Timisoara, Romania. This CoE will help Wipro deliver innovative embedded software solutions for its global and European clients. This engineering center in Romania is part of Wipro's global delivery network that offers best-in-class engineering and IT services.

Bombardier Transportation hires a new site operations director at the Global Procurement Operations centre in Cluj Napoca, reveals an announcement posted in a social site.

While Bosch sells equipment and electronics, it also developed a BPO center in Timisoara, an R&D center in Cluj and production units in Cluj and Blaj.

German company Leoni plans to open its own shared service center in Cluj, company officials told OT. They say the center is planned to open in more than six months, and until then no further information can be offered.

Office Depot opened its first worldwide shared service centre (SSC) in Cluj-Napoca in August 2007 with the purpose of supporting Office Depot's financial operations at a Pan-European level, says Giulio Medda, SSC managing director of Office Depot.

While Federal-Mogul is set to expand its team, new investors are coming into Ploiesti to add more than 500 jobs to the city, Simona Scutaru, Service Center Site leader & HR Country Manager Federal-Mogul Motorparts tells Outsourcing Today.

Bombardier will grow 20-30 per cent by the end of this year. The 500-employee Cluj-based company centre serves mainly European clients, adding more segments to its business since it started local operations, in 2009, says Andreea Van den Bosch, the HR business partner of the Shared Services Organization for Romania of Bombardier Transportation.

Bosch Service Solutions, a leading provider of business processes outsourcing (BPO) reached a total of 570 employees this year and plans to grow the personnel figure by 20% by end-2016, company officials told Outsourcing Today.

While the majority of world's shared service centers (SSCs) are located in Western Europe (43%) and North America takes 30% of the market share, Eastern Europe account for just 2% of the global industry, reveals the Deloitte's 2015 Global Shared Services Survey consulted by Outsourcing Today

Romania is in Tier 1 of the emerging markets locations for service centers placement in 2015, says Oldrich Priklenk, CEO, KPC-Group, Gartner Representative for Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.

In today’s robust and competitive business environment, organizations are constantly looking at streamlining business processes to derive greater business value, writes Vivek Naidu for dqindia.com.

Poland is not only limited to Warsaw or Cracow when the locations for middle sized BPO and SSC centers is considered. Among many attractive locations, the town of Czestochowa is ready to support the business services sector in further growth in Poland, writes outsourcingportal.pl

As the need for Shared Services Centres (SSCs) increases year-on-year globally, Romania holds the door open for investors and confidently invites them in. Alexandra Lopotaru talked to important players in the industry to find out why, how and where they took a seat

British American Tobacco (BAT), the second-largest tobacco producer in the world, will close a Belgian center and move its activities to Romania while the trade unions say it is a "typical case of social dumpin

The Ford Resource and Engagement Center in Craiova, Romania, was inaugurated this week, marking the official opening of the first Ford Research and Engagement Center in Europe. The fourth FREC was announced in

Local business shared services provider Bosch Service Solutions, part of German group Bosch, announced the completion of its relocation to Timisoara-based office building ISHO, already announced in the middle o

The US-based multinational food producer company, Kellogg's announced that it will create 50 jobs at its Bucharest centre by the end of 2018, by opening a new division at the Bucharest centre. The new positions

The series of Next Generation Shared Services Roadshow event organized by SSC Heroes and Kinnarps Kinnarps in four cities in Central and Eastern Europe, brought in April at Bucharest a strong panel of leaders i

Operational leasing company LeasePlan will open a customer support center at Bucharest and employs 400 people to run the operations, according to local media.

Total, one of the largest major integrated oil and gas companies in the world, with activities in more than 130 countries and 98.000 employees opened a corporate support services center at Bucharest in March th

In 2015, the Bosch Group recorded sales of over 70 billion euros for the first time, according to preliminary figures. The company succeeded in increasing revenue by approximately ten percent1 last year. Earnin

The for global knowledge process outsourcing market is set to rise by 23% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) over the next four years, according to econotimes.com.

According to Deloitte’s „2015 Global Shared Services Survey”, only ten per cent of the SSCs worldwide are located in CEE, comparing to17 per cent in APAC and 16 per cent in LATAM.

Colin C. Lovering has been living and working in Romania since 2009 when he arrived to offer consultancy and advice to organisations looking for growth and profitability and founded Achieve International.

Managing Director for VASTINT Romania since 2009, Antoniu Panait has an executive experience of more than 10 years, mainly in real estate.

Andrei Voica, Director Project Management and Workplace Consultancy, Colliers International. Truly passionate about his work and always eager to add value to each project.