02/10/2006

300 Jobs Boost For Belfast At Gem

A Belfast based call centre is expected to create around 300 new jobs, it has today been revealed.

The company, Gem, has just won four major contracts, including Channel Four and online entertainment company Play.com.

Today's announcement comes just one week after the company revealed that it had landed two other contracts within the travel and online-dating sector.

Gem are now beginning to recruit for the positions, which are expected to be filled by November this year.

A spokesman for Gem today said that the company was taking advantage of the recent boom in the industry in Northern Ireland and added that even more work could be in the pipeline for the future.

The new jobs will be based in Lanyon place and at a new centre soon to be built at Lesley Exchange near Central train station.

(EF/SP)

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