Huawei to move 1,000 staff to new Spain HQ, take on 500 more

News General Spain 16 MAR 2017
Huawei to move 1,000 staff to new Spain HQ, take on 500 more

Huawei will move its Spanish headquarters to a new office in the north of Madrid later this year as it looks to take on 500 new employees by 2022, reports business daily El Economista. The company’s new headquarters will be based in the 21,000-square metre Castellana Norte business park in the Las Tablas district of the Spanish capital, with its current 1,000-strong workforce due to move there in the final quarter of this year.

Huawei currently has five other offices in Spain in the cities of in Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao and La Coruna, as well as joint innovation centres with Telefonica and Vodafone. It recently opened its second European customer service centre in Madrid and said it plans a second Spanish outlet in Malaga in the coming months.

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