APAC Customer Services to be acquired and merged with NCO Group

One Equity Partners, the private investment arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will acquire 100% of APAC, through an all-cash transaction. Since One Equity is also the majority owner of NCO Group, Inc., the merging of the two BPOs will be imminent, as Tom Kichler, Managing Director at One Equity Partners said. "We are excited about investing behind the growth of these two great businesses.

APAC sites are currently located in Cubao, Alabang and in Palo, Leyte. NCO Group has it's Quezon City, Taguig and Marikina sites.

Now this is an interesting merger and a brand-new opportunity for the Pinoy BPO workers to consider establishing their careers with this development.

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Stellar Global will open new site in Eastwood

Stellar Global is soon to open its newest site in Eastwood, Quezon City investing P200 million in this facility. It will be housed at the 22nd to 24th floors of the 34-storey MDC 100 Bldg. and also occupying a part of the ground floor for employee recruitment.

Stellar Global Philippines is a joint venture company owned by an Australian business process outsourcing firm, Stellar Global and Philippine publicly listed company Paxy’s Inc, which was the former owners of Advanced Contact Solutions.

Stellar Global will be housing their airline and energy accounts in the new site which will do voice and non-voice services. An expected 1,000 seats will be filled in this new site. Stellar Global's Cubao facility already has more than 1,500 employees.

Pinoy BPO workers will definitely benefit from this new site and as there will be more daytime BPO jobs available!

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