February 11 (SeeNews) - The Bosnian arm of Croatia's leading software company and global cloud communications provider Infobip has bought land in Sarajevo where it plans to build new offices, the city's Centar municipality said.
Infobip BH signed a deal with Centar municipality on February 10 for the purchase of four plots of land intended for construction of residential and office buildings in the future Sip business zone, the municipality said in a statement on Monday.
The value of the deal is 500,000 marka ($278,000/256,000 euro). The area of the acquired plots was not disclosed.
The municipality has said in the past that it plans to develop an IT park in the Sip business zone which covers an area of 82,700 square metres located 9 km from the Sarajevo airport. In May 2018, Centar municipality said it has started negotiations with Infobip BH which was interested in building new offices on a plot of land of some 5,000 sq m in Sarajevo where it plans to employ over 500 people.
Established in 2002 as a start-up project in Croatia's Vodnjan, Infobip has expanded on six continents, offering in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices in 190+ countries connected to over 800 telecom networks.
Infobip employs more than 2,000 people globally. Its clients include Uber, Burger King, WhatsApp, Viber and other leading mobile operators, messaging apps, banks, social networks, tech companies, and aggregators.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)