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20/11/2014
Over 1,100 Jobs Announced Across Wales
A total of 1,144 jobs are to be created by six companies across Wales, it has been announced.
The announcements come ahead of the UK Investment Summit Wales 2014 event, taking place over the next two days at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport.
The announcements are:
• Deloitte - 700 jobs - Cardiff. The firm already has 300 staff working at two offices in the city and its global management centre is already based in the enterprise zone
• Griffin Place Communications (GPC) - 300 jobs - Cwmbran. London firm building a new call centre for other businesses specialising in customer care
• Raytheon - 50 jobs - Broughton, Flintshire. Aircraft manufacturer's £1m new design centre of excellence and research and development facility
• Smartpipe Solutions - 44 jobs - Cwmbran. £10m software development and research centre. Set up in London in 2013 it uses customer profiles to provide personalised services across digital platforms
• SPTS Technologies - 30 jobs - Newport. Research and development posts for hi-tech firm which specialises in innovative micro-electronic devices but is also expanding into biomedical applications
• Essentra - 20 jobs - Newport. Another 40 jobs safeguarded at packaging company with a new manufacturing facility
Welcoming the news, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "These companies could have been located anywhere in the world and I am happy to say they all chose to come to Wales."
(MH/CD)
The announcements come ahead of the UK Investment Summit Wales 2014 event, taking place over the next two days at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport.
The announcements are:
• Deloitte - 700 jobs - Cardiff. The firm already has 300 staff working at two offices in the city and its global management centre is already based in the enterprise zone
• Griffin Place Communications (GPC) - 300 jobs - Cwmbran. London firm building a new call centre for other businesses specialising in customer care
• Raytheon - 50 jobs - Broughton, Flintshire. Aircraft manufacturer's £1m new design centre of excellence and research and development facility
• Smartpipe Solutions - 44 jobs - Cwmbran. £10m software development and research centre. Set up in London in 2013 it uses customer profiles to provide personalised services across digital platforms
• SPTS Technologies - 30 jobs - Newport. Research and development posts for hi-tech firm which specialises in innovative micro-electronic devices but is also expanding into biomedical applications
• Essentra - 20 jobs - Newport. Another 40 jobs safeguarded at packaging company with a new manufacturing facility
Welcoming the news, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "These companies could have been located anywhere in the world and I am happy to say they all chose to come to Wales."
(MH/CD)
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