BPiON expands to Romania
6/12/2021
"After remarkable achievements in Hungary and Poland during the last 3 years, the Romanian office opening is also part of our growth strategy. BPiON has strategic partnerships in more than 40 countries in Europe, and the essence of BPiON Accounting and Payroll, HR services are our key CEE Service hubs", said Béla Kakuk, CEO of BPiON Group.
"I am happy to introduce Daniela Zsigmond, who has joined the BPiON Management Team as Managing Director of BPiON Romania. Her expertise and almost 20 years of experience in Payroll & HR administration services help us to provide the same quality, process-, technology- and cloud-based customized BPO services in Romania as we provide them in Hungary and Poland." "On top of her professional experience, I am sure she is the best fit to leverage the BPiON culture in Romania to inspire through modern ideas, real-life experiences, and lasting partnerships to change perspective, encourage growth, improve decision making and create quality solutions.” – said Béla Kakuk, CEO of BPiON Group. The Polish branch of the German pharmaceuticals company is to occupy almost 2,800 sqm of office space in Centrum Południe, the developer and owner of which is Skanska. The tenant was advised by CBRE during the leasing process.
Centrum Południe, which is situated at the junction of ul. Powstanców Śląskich and ul. Szczęśliwa is a multi-phase project that will eventually comprise 85,000 sqm of office, retail and service space. The first, 27,600 sqm phase was completed in July 2020, and has just received a LEED Core&Shell certificate. Construction work on the second, 21,500 sm phase has just started and is expected to be ready in the fourth quarter of 2022. PepsiCo moves into new offices in Krakow
6/12/2021
Brain Park, an office complex developed by Echo Investment will become the new headquarters of PepsiCo GBS Kraków. PepsiCo will occupy over 5,000 sqm and start operating in the new office in the fourth quarter of 2022.
"Signing the lease contract with PepsiCo GBS proves that well-designed office space still plays an important role and is a clear added value in everyday work”, says Joanna Nicińska, Regional Director at Echo Investment's office department. PepsiCo GBS Poland provides business support services for PepsiCo primarily in Europe. The company's goal is to simplify and automate processes to help everyone work more efficiently. The centralization of services allows to manage the complexity of processes more effectively and to generate more business value faster. The scope of provided services includes: financial planning and control, marketing, HR, sales. "We chose Brain Park as our new headquarters not only because of the well-planned office space, which creates a diverse and inclusive place for working together, but also because of all the extra opportunities that the project gives us, such as a functionally designed green space between the buildings, supporting the well-being of all employees." says Paweł Mleczko, Managing Director at PepsiCo GBS Kraków. PLAY opens new office in Vilnius
6/12/2021
PLAY, a new and expanding Icelandic low-cost airline, has just announced plans to open an administrative and tech support office in Vilnius, Lithuania, in December. The carrier’s HQ and current flight operations will remain in Iceland, including flight and cabin crew and this expansion will open only new positions, causing no layoffs in existing locations. The Vilnius office will host various administrative and technical functions to uphold the company’s core values of on-time performance, simplicity, happiness, low prices, and safety. PLAY expects to find approximately 15 to 20 employees in IT services, digital development, marketing, finance, and customer service in Vilnius within a few months.
PLAY is a new low-cost airline currently operating flights between Iceland and Europe on new Airbus aircraft. Founded in Reykjavík in 2019 by a management team with significant experience in the aviation industry, the company has capitalized on the past year’s fast-developing and changing market to see impressive growth. The airline received its air operator’s certificate (AOC) from the Icelandic Transport Authority in May and launched its Reykjavik-London Stansted service with an A321 NEO aircraft on 24 June, followed by six other European destinations in June and July. PLAY already operates three A321 NEO’s and plans to grow the company’s fleet to six of them by the second quarter of 2022. The growth will coincide with preparations for new service to the USA. The company expects to operate more than 15 aircraft by 2025 to fly to multiple destinations in North America and Europe. The carrier has already served 70 thousand passengers to date. According to Birgir Jónsson, CEO of PLAY, while the company now has three aircraft servicing sixteen destinations and under 136 employees, he estimates they will more than double the number of employees to three hundred before next summer. The new office is part of a plan to develop a more international company culture and create cost-effective relationships with new suppliers, service providers, and other partners. A local General Manager, Kęstutis Jasiulevičius, has already been hired in Lithuania, and a recruitment drive for other roles will begin soon. “Lithuania offers a highly educated talent pool that’s oriented towards science, technology and engineering, and that labour pool is flexible, motivated and multilingual. It also provides a superb cost-to-quality ratio and the needed conditions to scale,” says Elijus Čivilis, General Manager of Invest Lithuania. “It is encouraging to see this recognized by such an up-and-coming airline as PLAY.” PLAY successfully raised $90 million in fresh capital in an initial public offering (IPO) and is traded on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Iceland. The following months are set to see the expansion of PLAY’s network as new destinations in Europe and North America get added, as well as a focus on preparations for its hub-and-spoke operations starting in spring 2022. Capgemini has opened a new Cyber Defense Center (CDC) in Poland, expanding the Group’s CDC network. As the first Capgemini’ CDC of its type in Eastern Europe, the facility will play a key role in protecting critical infrastructures across the region, as well as those of a global nature.
Capgemini’s Eastern Europe CDC will focus on securing the systems of infrastructures from a number of sectors. Capgemini’s experts will provide end-to-end support for projects, from the transition and migration of cybersecurity processes, through the configuration of systems and handover of projects to ongoing support aimed at protecting organizations’ data, assets and identities. To maximize analyst efficiency, reduce mean time to recover (MTTR), and enable economical scaling, the CDC is powered by cutting-edge technologies and solutions, such as cloud-native security and also Artificial Intelligence and embedded machine learning on top of orchestration, for advanced hunting and investigating capabilities. “To keep our clients’ data and assets protected against constantly evolving threats, Capgemini’s Cyber Defense Centers are designed to equip organizations with the best components and resources they need to prevent, detect, and respond to security incidents. Powered by innovative solutions, Capgemini’s pools of certified cybersecurity experts across the world provide clients with improved resilience, and comprehensive intelligence to secure their critical infrastructures,” said Geert van der Linden, Cybersecurity Business Lead at Capgemini. |
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