Sony Pictures Financial Centre officially opened in the Tri-City

20.05.2010

Sony Pictures Entertainment announced the official opening of its latest venture in Poland - the financial centre of Sony Pictures Global Business Services. The official meeting, which took place in the centre of Gdynia Łużycka Office Park, was attended by Gdynia’s Deputy President Michał Guć and Gdańsk Deputy President Andrzej Bojanowski and the President of investGDA Alan Aleksandrowicz.

The new Sony financial centre will support financial and accounting operations of Sony Pictures Entertainment in Europe and on other continents. In the future the investment is expected to generate up to 150 job: mainly for experienced accountants and analysts involved in financial support for European companies which form part of the group. Recruitment processes have already started. Such a project will without doubt positively influence the condition of the labour market and general economy in the region. The Centre has currently been under construction.

Sony chose Gdynia although the concern was considering other attractive locations, such as Warszawa, Berlin, Prague and Budapest.

Project of the Sony Centre seat

At the conference opening the Sony Pictures seat in Gdynia, the investGDA President Alan Aleksandrowich tried to dispel the myths which tend to appear around this kind of investments - Shared services centres, financial centres and IT centres employ a minimum of ten thousand people in Tricity and occupy nearly 100 thousand sq m. Such centres bring the working culture from world’s biggest agglomerations, the know-how and experience as well as a possibility of a good start for young professionals. The benefit of this type of investments spreads over all cities of the agglomeration, not only in the form of profits from the rental of office space, or taxes on business, but also from the fact that highly qualified staff from the region may work here and develop the region’s competitiveness, also in the international arena.

On the international level, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) focuses on production and distribution of films, television programmes, investments in world-wide channels, management of production studios, development of new products, services and technologies for the use of entertainment and film distribution in over 130 countries. (investGDA, Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku)