Microsoft to invest 13m euros in Bucharest

Microsoft intends to invest 13.1 million euros over a four-year period to set up a technical support centre in Bucharest, a project for which it has requested a number of incentives from the Government. The decision is to be made at the end of May, official sources say. Company officials have started negotiations with the Bucharest authorities to open an administrative technical support centre, which will assist major corporate clients of Microsoft. The clients mainly come from Germany and France, as well as from the United Kingdom and the US. The centre will also have the option to cater for clients from Central and East-European countries in the near future. Contacted by phone, Paula Apreutesei, business strategy manager of the company for South-Eastern Europe said that Romania is on the “shortlist” of countries where Microsoft intends to open a technical support centre and that so far Microsoft has not taken any further decision on the matter. The management of the company has assessed several locations in Romania and Bulgaria and is to decide which country it will invest in at the end of May, said the sources. ZF