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Gemalto moves Main Research Site to Singapore
9 March 09
The world’s biggest smart card company, Gemalto, is moving its main research and development (R&D) site to Singapore.
Gemalto, which had more than €1.6 billion (S$3.1 billion) in sales for its fiscal year ended last December, employs 1,200 staff at its sprawling 21,500 sq m lab facility in Ayer Rajah Crescent.
It now has 219 R&D engineers, and it is bucking the trend: It is hiring another 29 research engineers this year, and will require an additional 18 next year, making its Singapore R&D centre its biggest world-wide.
This set-up will eclipse its seven other research centres in Europe, the United States and China.
Moving its main R&D site to Singapore will allow Gemalto to be ‘closer to our customers’, said Gemalto’s vice-president for human resources, Mr. Marc Ribas.
Read the article here.