October 6 (SeeNews) - US online retailer Amazon said on Thursday it has revamped its development and technology centre in the eastern Romanian city of Iasi, and that it plans to hire some 400 people in the next three years.
The 13,000 sq m centre now includes four departments - Technology Development, Compliance Operations, Retail Services and Digital Imaging - involved in developing, innovating and consolidating operations Amazon's website, the company said in a press release.
"We will continue to invest in Romania and we are looking forward to attract in Iasi the most brilliant minds from Romania and abroad,” Amazon Romania's managing director Lucian Vornicu said.
"Starting 2005, Amazon has invested in Romania 40 million euro ($44.7 million) and created 600 jobs so far. This is a reconfirmation of how attractive is Romania for IT companies thanks to talented IT specialists and good foreign languages knowledge," Claudiu Vrinceanu, state secretary at the economy ministry, said.
Amazon opened its development centre in Iasi in 2005.
The company operates a pan EU business with over 80 corporate offices, fulfilment centres, seller and customer service centres, R&D centres, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacenter regions.
In 2015 Amazon created in Europe over 10,000 new permanent jobs, bringing the company’s total European workforce to over 40,000.
Amazon said it has invested over 15 billion euro in Europe since 2010 on infrastructure and operations for fulfillment and customer service, AWS datacenter regions and research and development.
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