The US group has chosen Bucharest to establish a European Global Business Services (GBS) center, which will handle human resources, IT, and supply chain processes, as well as finance jobs, currently held by people at its office in in Manchester, UK.
“To deliver on our strategy and grow our business around the world, we need new ways of operating in an increasingly complex, global business environment,” said chief executive John Bryant in a statement.
The group officials added that a move to a GBS model, “will drive efficiencies that generate cost savings for Kellogg to reinvest in its business to drive growth.”
It does not rule out moving some of the GBS work now handled by its 600 employees in its Manchester, UK, office to strategic business partners and some to Kellogg-operated service centers, either.
Kellogg’s, known worldwide as a breakfast cereal maker, became world’s largest snacks producer second only to PepsiCo in 2012 after buying Pringles from P&G for $2.7 billion.
The largest player on the breakfast cereal market in Romania is Nestle.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)