EUROPEAN BUSINESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION

ABSL Czech distinguishes top SSCs at annual Conference

NTT takes up new lease to support its growth

Endava to hire 90 people in its Romanian centres

SSC Club Russia looks for lessons from Poland

ExxonMobil’s Budapest Global Business Center Proving ‘Part of the Solution’

SSCs Operating at top end of Office Market

Hungary’s SSCs may Emerge as Winners After COVID-19

Sanofi has opened a global competence centre in Budapest

US life insurance company opens software development center in Romania

BIC inaugurates shared services centre in Sofia, to hire 230 by end-2021

TMF Group's European Center being built in Katowice

Top American hedge fund hiring tech talent in Warsaw

MedTech company Dexcom set to open Global Business Services centre in Vilnius

Banking platform Curve joins Lithuania’s bustling Fintech sector

Nike opens IT competency centre in Gdansk

IT consultancy 7N comes to Gdansk with plans to hire 100 people

Norwegian airline sets up SSC in Rīga, reversing its outsourcing arrangements

Romanian unicorn UiPath prepares for listing at $15 billion valuation

Mazars: Wages in RO private firms 28% lower than in Poland

Global Communications Provider Intrado Digital Media Continues Growth in Vilnius

GFT expands in Poznań, with grant support

Croatia’s Meritus, U.K.-based Concentric Technologies agree to set up JV

Surviving the Oil Downturn By Outsourcing Business Processes

Nagarro Holding and iQuest Group join forces in Romania

WNS Wins Strategic Finance Accounting Contract with EV Cargo

Italian outsourcer Comdata opens new center in Bucharest, will hire 400.

Powering Up Global Operations in Bratislava

Euronews reporting on Czech business services

Barclays expands CoE in Prague, will hire 200+

Arm is expanding its R&D centre in Budapest - VIDEO REPORT

Ciprian Dan is the new President of ABSL Romania

EU subsidizes Nordic language training in SSCs

Capgemini enters Lublin

DSV International Shared Services drives 10 year lease deal

Lithuania gives the green light to large-scale investors with sweeping reforms

New Lithuania business services report for 2020

Croatia's Meritus, UK-based Concentric Technologies agree to set up 51/49 JV

CEO NTT Data: “Romania must get out of the trap of cheap manufacturing”

Business Services Sector in Romania estimates revenue growth of up to 5% by 2020.

ABSL Poland's General Assembly video provides financial and strategy update for 2020. YouTube Link.

Pandemic to fuel growth of shared service centres

Only 4.5% of staff back to office, says ASPIRE report

California-based Infogain opens development center in Krakow

New event connects CEE-based digital providers to global buyers - 18 June

US-based CAST AI opens development office in Lithuania

Logistics – the next frontier for Lithuanian GBS

BPO CGS Romania to fill 450 jobs

Continental Romania plans to invest 200 mln euro in 2020, as much as in 2019

Will Fintech weather the storm? The 3C survival strategy

QIAGEN Business Services and Sii Poland work together to deliver life-changing IT projects

Summary points from 2nd ZOOM Roundtable for BSC Leaders in CEE

Digitization pays off, bringing new business opportunities even during a pandemic, says ABSL Czech

Telia competency centre to expand to 700 specialists by 2023

Everest sees services biz slowing to 4-6%

CEE Business Services Directory - Deadline to submit your (Free) entry

26 Winners, 317 people, 76 SSCs, and 25 Videos from CEE Business Services Awards (30 Jan, Warsaw)

BPO firm CGS sets new center in Constanta, Romania

Finnish Metso opens SSC in Lithuania

Telus consolidates presence in CEE after USD 1 billion deal

Sanofi opens shared services centre in Budapest

“SAM the robot” to register Medicover Romania subscribers

How Danske Bank became one of the largest employers in Lithuania

OAG continues its expansion in Kaunas (Lithuania)

Croatia's Meritus acquires 51% of Serbian BPO firm Trizma for 2.16 mln euro

American Chamber in Hungary to boost Business Services Sector in Hungary

Sanofi sets up European competence centre in Budapest

American JUUL Labs opens in Gdansk

AmerisourceBergen to open new office in Vilnius, bolster global footprint

German automotive supplier Schaeffler to hire 800 in Wrocław

US mega-corporation McKesson opens in Vilnius

Nordzucker to establish a new Business Services Centre in Kaunas

Submit Nominations (deadline: 28 Feb) CEE Business Services Awards (14-15 April)

1st update about CEE Business Services Summit & Awards in Hybrid format:

Videos from CEE BSC Exec Roundtables (January)

CEE Business Services Directory 2020

In this annual CEE Business Services Directory (our 11th edition!), we have produced – once again - the most-comprehensive listing of companies in the Business Services sector across the entire region of Central Eastern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. In 2020, we have more than 2000 firms listed – and that number may be one of the best guesses of how many “BSCs” operate across the region. New niche services stretch the definition, with companies operating in niches such as Actuarial Services, Legal Processes, Engineering and Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Marketing Support, Pharmaceutical Research, or Middle-office services for hedge funds. (Full PDF available for purchase - details here.