Galway Bay Fm news-The announcement of 100 extra jobs for Galway by an international oneline homewares retailer is expected to be made this week.
The jobs will be with Wayfair, a Nazdaq-listed online homewares retailer which opened a European Operations Centre in Mervue Business Park in 2009 with an initial staff of 11.
According to today’s Sunday Times newspaper the announcement of the additional jobs is expected on Tuesday with IDA backing.
It states that the roles are likely to include e-commerce and customer service positions and posts that require European language skills.
Wayfair was founded in Boston in 2002 as CSN Stores and employs about 4,000 people worldwide.
It already has other European operations in London and Berlin.
The company effectively acts as a middleman for about 7,000 suppliers, which collectively sell more than €7 million worth of products, as well as its own furniture brands.
The reports states that this additional investment in Galway will further boost the city’s creditentials as an emerging tech hub.
A number of other international and Irish firms in this field have recently located in Galway rather than in Dublin.
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