March 29 (SeeNews) - US digital services company Globant said on Friday it has opened a development centre in the Romanian northwestern city of Cluj-Napoca.
The new centre will enable the company to extend its digital and cognitive expertise to an international portfolio of clients, it said in a press release.
Globant is already present in Cluj through Small Footprint, which it acquired in August 2018. The acquisition of Small Footprint's US operations and subsidiary in Romania for $10,560 (9,400 euro) has enabled Globant to intensify expansion in Eastern Europe and improve its onsite capacity in the US, according to its half-year report for 2018.
Established in 2003, Globant has 40 development centers in 32 cities across 14 countries and over 9,000 employees working for companies such as FOX, Google, Linkedin, BBVA, EA and Coca Cola. Globant's core business is the digital and cognitive transformation of the most innovative and technologically advanced brands in the world active in the consumer, media, technology, finance and entertainment industries.
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