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.