LONDON, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Morocco and MEDZ Sourcing have been named "Offshoring Destination of the Year" by the European Outsourcing Association (EOA), which presented its 2012 awards on Wednesday evening at the Law Society in London. The award recognises Morocco's attractiveness as a platform for providing business, information and communications technology services to European organisations seeking cost competitive solutions for deploying their sourcing strategies. Morocco beat five other destinations shortlisted for the award including South Africa, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Egypt.
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The EOA judges cited Morocco's success in establishing an attractive nearshore outsourcing industry, with strong backing of testimonials from European companies, such as Dell, Logica, Deloitte, HP and Attento, who are benefitting from doing business from Morocco.
"Being chosen as EOA's Offshoring Destination of the Year is a great testament to the daily contributions of the 55,000 women and men working in Morocco's world class outsourcing centres", stated Abderrafie Hanouf, Director General of MEDZ Sourcing, operator of dedicated business parks including Casanearshore Park, Rabat Technopolis and Fès Shore, which opened officially on 20th of June. MEDZ Sourcing, was cited along with Morocco as recipient of the 2012 EOA Offshoring Destination of the Year Award.
"This is a great honour. In Europe, EOA is considered the most important association of professionals and experts in the outsourcing industry. Receiving their award validates our value proposition, which is to offer world class infrastructure, stable, competitive costs, and well-trained human resources, in combination with Morocco's geographic, cultural and linguistic proximity to Europe", continued Mr. Hanouf.
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About MEDZ Sourcing -- MedZ Sourcing, (Mediterranean Zones for Sourcing) is the region's leading company specialized in developing, promoting and managing Technology parks dedicated to the outsourcing industry all over Morocco. Αn affiliate of CDG Group, MedZ Sourcing manages a Network of World Class business parks with a comprehensive end-user services and ready for output office space (more than 500,000 m² coming online) complying with best of breed real estate and telecommunications services. Casanearshore, Technopolis and Fes Shore parks host more than a hundred multinational corporations employing more than 20,000 people (+90 000 by 2017) in the outsourcing arena focusing on ITO, Voice BPO, Non-Voice BPO and Shared Service Centres. Our clients gain access to a large and qualified human resources pool, state-of-the-art telecoms infrastructure and exclusive tax incentives for optimal profitability. http://www.medz-sourcing.com
About EOA -- EOA operates as a pan-European Trade Association; a federation of country specific bodies operating as independent 'not-for-profit' organisations whose shared objective is to leverage effective business and process outsourcing by :
promoting best practice and innovation in the application and development of outsourcing, delivering information on market developments (benchmarking, contracts, market research, tariff and pricing reviews) communicating benefits and lessons learnt.
In the United Kingdom, the EOA organisation is the National Outsourcing Association http://www.noa.co.uk
Media Contacts:
Anne Duncan, +33-6-0797-2558, aduncan@lumiu.com
Κarima Benkhallouq, +212-522-777-555, k.benkhallouq@medz-sourcing.com
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