{"id":13867,"date":"2018-10-05T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=13867"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:56:25","slug":"ocado-officially-opened-its-new-office-in-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/ocado-officially-opened-its-new-office-in-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocado Officially Opened Its New Office in Sofia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At an official opening ceremony held on September 20th, Ocado Technology\u2019s new office in Sofia was officially <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opened by the British <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mbassador to Bulgaria <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma Hopkins OBE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a pleasure to attend the official opening of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OcadoTechnology\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ocado<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s own dedicated and standalone software development center in Sofia. \u201cCongratulations to the management team and to all talented engineers who will work on The Ocado Smart Platform in our city. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wish the company every success in the future\u201d, Vladimir Danailov, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CEO of Sofia Investment Agency, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said in his welcome speech. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to our brand new Sofia offices! Take a look around&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nOQxxcFT1u\">https:\/\/t.co\/nOQxxcFT1u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ocado Technology (@OcadoTechnology) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OcadoTechnology\/status\/1044588666969108481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Few months ago, Ocado Technology <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced its decision to expand its existing team in Sofia from 50 to 150 engineers. The company has signed a five-year lease for two floors totaling 2,000 m2 of floor space in a new office building close to Vitosha Metro Station and Paradise Center. The development center in Sofia became Ocado Technology\u2019s fourth location outside the UK, alongside two offices in Poland and one in Spain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company currently employs 60 employees and plans to expand its staff. The Sofia team will work on Ocado Technology\u2019s world-class systems and solutions in the areas of robotics, machine learning, simulation, data science, warehouse control, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">warehouse management<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[su_custom_gallery source=&#8221;media: 13780,13782,13784&#8243; width=&#8221;250&#8243; height=&#8221;150&#8243; title=&#8221;never&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At an official opening ceremony held on September 20th, Ocado Technology\u2019s new office in Sofia was officially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}