Nokia drew us to Romania, says Japan's Anritsu

Nokia’s 2007 decision to shut down a plant in Germany to come to Cluj has drawn attention to Romania and is playing a significant role in companies’ decision to open IT&C centres domestically, say the representatives of Japan’s Anritsu, which will hire several tens of software developers in Bucharest.

“We’ve seen the example of Nokia, which closed the plant in Bochum and came to Romania. We are pursuing the same efficiency. Romania is a cost cutting centre for us,” Gerald Ostheimer, manager of Anritsu, explains the company’s decision to enter Romania.
He says Nokia’s decision generated confidence in the potential of the Romanian market, a perception also strengthened by the expansion of Romanian operations by other IT&C giants, such as Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, HP, IBM or Oracle.
Anritsu, a provider of IT&C equipment and services to telecom operators, with annual turnover of around 700m euros, this year opened a centre in Romania, already has 9 employees and will hire at least another ten in the next six months.