NEC Australia to set up Wollongong Office

NEC Australia has agreed to invest $25 million in the University of Wollongong to help improve access to ICT services to businesses in the region.

The company will spend the money to develop a new corporate office at the university’s Innovation Campus.

The office is expected to employ 110 staff dedicated to providing service capabilities in regional New South Wales.

NEC Australia will also work with the university on a graduate program to build ICT careers in the region and encourage growth in the sector to improve the services available for corporate customers operating in the Wollongong area.

“This is one of our largest investments in NSW and gives us the space to add significant numbers of new permanent jobs in regional NSW,” NEC Australia NSW state manager Peter Boyd said.

“We’ve already created hundreds of new jobs to support our continued growth in South Australia and the Northern Territory and with the addition of Wollongong, NSW is now on the same trajectory in terms of new jobs and investments.”

The project forms part of the Advantage Wollongong initiative, a project of the NSW Government, University of Wollongong and Wollongong City Council that promotes Wollongong as a place to do business and invest in.

The initiative has now been running since 2008 and has helped to facilitate more than 70 business-attraction and expansion projects.

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