The site of the former Black & White whisky distillery at Stepps, near Glasgow, is to benefit from more than £2 million of inward investment for Altran’s “project factory”.
It beat off competition from a number of other potential locations in countries including Germany, India and Singapore.
Altran specialises in technology and innovation consulting, and its new centre will prove central to its aim of transforming the way that companies run major projects around the world by using innovative software to help manage these projects.
The Chief Executive of Altran’s UK division, Steve Boyle, said that officials at economic development agency Scottish Enterprise had played a major part in beating off international competition to secure the project.
He said that Jack Perry, Scottish Enterprise’s chief executive, had seen an early pilot version of the concept for the “project factory” a number of years ago and had registered his interest.
"They have played a very smart game here," Mr Boyle told The Herald newspaper. "They have just got us on the hook to think about Scotland. They have never really let us off the hook” he said.
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He gave examples of the types of projects that the new hub would be handling, which include human resources processes, data centre builds, construction, technological change, audit and compliance work, and management of corporate real estate portfolios.
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