Through this move, Schouten Romania becomes the Hub for Schouten Global in South East Europe. Schouten Romania will be launched during an opening event in October in Bucharest, Romania.
“By joining with the local team of experts from Focus Plus and creating together Schouten Romania, we are expanding now with a regional hub, fully increasing the European coverage of our services. Romania has been an objective for us for quite some time, due to the favorable economic context,” said Camiel Gielkens, CEO at Schouten & Nelissen.
With many multinational clients in industries as High tech, Financial services, Retail, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Agro and Food, Automotive, Schouten Global has consolidated its global presence by collaborating with the best-in-class facilitators and has delivered so far over 7 million hours of trainings.
Focus Plus, one of the well-known training companies on the local market, has been providing for over 12 years high quality business and organizational consultancy and training programs fully customized to the needs of the customer’s business. With more than 10,000 hours of delivered trainings and companies in its portfolio from industries such as Oil and Gas, Tobacco, Spirits, Soft drinks, Retail, IT & C and many others, the network and expertise of the Focus Plus team has been a key argument for the expansion of Schouten Global in Romania.
“Focus Plus has been a passion and a business we have grown organically. We took our experience from our corporate backgrounds and we have put it in trainings, so we are proud that after more than a decade we have a team with an impressive portfolio. Schouten Romania is the next step for us and we are eager to get access to the tools and training programs that Schouten Global has been developing for the previous four decades. Through Schouten Global we have access to the most innovative learning solutions and methods; therefore, we have a huge competitive advantage. I am convinced that we can soon expand our position under the Schouten Romania brand,” said Iulian Chihaia, Managing Partner and senior trainer Focus Plus.
The coaching, team building, HR consultancy and strategy services market in Romania grew around 30% on the year in 30%, to EUR20 million.