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The French multinational group Armatis, specialised in customer service, CRM solutions and support marketing techniques, has announced that it will recruit 250 workers for its contact centre in Guimarães, Portugal.
The company states that the contracts are fixed-term and have duration of seven months, renewable for equal periods.
Armatis has 23 centres spread across France, Portugal, Tunisia and Poland employing around 10,000 people in total. The group, which has been operating in Portugal since 2012, currently has six production centres in the cities of Lisbon, Caldas da Rainha, Porto and Guimarães, employing more than 2,000 people in Portugal.
The Guimarães contact centre opened in 2017. It was followed by an announcement reporting the creation of 400 jobs.
Eurofound (2018), Armatis, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 94560, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/94560.