Unilever moves to Poland

Global FMCG company Unilever is shutting down its Netherlands-based financial and IT service center and transferring the business to Poland, according to Puls Biznesu daily. The 240 members of staff in the Netherlands will lose their jobs due to Unilever's decision to move the shared service center to Katowice, Mexico, Manila and Bangalore, the trade unions informed. Currently, Unilever's center in Katowice employs 600 people, as the restructing process is at the very early stage, it is hard to tell how many jobs will be created there, the daily said. Puls Biznesu did not receive any comment from Unilever.