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Investors Give a Vote of Confidence to Greece

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Four major multinational groups - Microsoft, Coca-Cola Company, Nokia Solutions & Networks and Delhaize - have chosen Greece for investments that require highly skilled human capital in information and communications technology, marketing, language skills and the development of products and services of high added value.

Microsoft will set up its contact centre in Athens, in collaboration with Teleperformance Hellas. The centre will provide support to Microsoft clients in Greece and Europe; it currently employs 350 people, which will rise to 550 when it is fully operational. The investment was announced by Central and Eastern Europe President Don Grantham, at a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

Coca-Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent informed Prime Minister, in a letter that Coca-Cola is planning to establish a Consumer Interaction Center in Athens. The €1 million investment is expected to create between 100 and 150 jobs and is due to start its operation in early 2014; when fully operational in 2015, it will cover 23 countries in Central and Southern Europe.

Nokia officially announced on November 26 the intention to expand its software center in Attica, which creates telecommunication solutions for the global market. The new investment, which will launch one of the Nokia’s biggest software centers around the world, will create 150 jobs, increasing the number of currently employed, to over 580.

Finally, Delhaize, the Belgian group, which owns Greece’s AB Vassilopoulos supermarket chain, announced that it is creating a Center of Excellence in Greece, one of only two in the world.

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