UPS in Wroclaw

UPS – one of the world’s biggest couriers – is to move their financial-accounting centre from the London area to Wroclaw. The US company is investing USD 20 mln in the city and will employ nearly 500 people.

The centre will probably be located in an existing building in the city and start to operate in Q1 of 2007. Apart from Wroclaw, other locations were considered: Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia as well as other Polish cities, including Gdansk, Krakow, Katowice and Poznan.

Amongst the factors behind the firm’s decision to locate in Wroclaw were the city’s reputation for producing well-educated science graduates and the low cost of labour. The centre is UPS’s second Polish investment, after they bought out one of the country’s largest couriers – MS Stolica – for PLN 380 mln last year.