“This strategic regional expansion to Iasi and Oradea serves to strengthen our development projects on the local market,” Mihaela Rusu, chief executive officer of Webhelp Romania, told ZF.

The French company is currently employing more than 1,800 people in its centers in Romania and will add two more cities to its expansion map.

Webhelp Romania posted RON101 million revenue in 2015, according to the latest publicly available data, an increase of 23% on the previous year. Net profit stood at RON4.6 million and it had 1,629 employees on average.

The local subsidiary of the French group is one of the 170 companies to have applied for state aid under the 332/2014 scheme in the past two years that supports investments promoting regional development by creation of jobs. Only 37 such applications received funding. (EUR1=RON4.4956)

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)