Coca-Cola Announces Resource Shift to India, Poland and Guatemala
Coca-Cola announced this month that it plans to shrink its work force at its large accounting center in Brandon, USA, by 15 percent, outsourcing 150 white-collar jobs to Guatemala, India and Poland.
The bottling company is intent on saving USD millions by working with Capgemini in India, Poland and Guatemala.
The Brandon Shared Services Center opened in 2002 and was a bastion of the very best in corporate streamlining on the East Coast. Florida and Hillsborough County traded $3,000 in tax rebates for every job created to say thank you.
Despite the outsourcing shift, Brandon will remain a global financial services hub. The layoffs will begin at the end of the year and continue through June 2009.
In addition to Brandon, the company plans to shut down a shared services center in Dallas and downsize another in Toronto at the cost of 190 jobs.
