WESTERN UNION IS AWARDED INVESTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD
Managing Director of INVEST LITHUANIA Mantas Nocius congratulated the global money transfer giant Western Union as Investor of the Year during the Lithuanian Business Leaders' award ceremony yesterday. The team of experts brought together by INVEST LITHUANIA nominated Western Union, Philip Morris (leading international tobacco company) and TEO LT (Lithuania's largest telecoms provider) for the award category of Investor of the Year. The winner was decided by the jury of the national business daily newspaper "Verslo žinios".
Western Union has more than 410,000 agent locations in over 200 countries and territories around the world. In May 2010 the US-based Western Union opened its Global Operations Center of Excellence in Lithuania. The center in Vilnius is company's third Global Operations Center. Within a year Western Union has hired almost 500 employees and intends to expand further.
