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 recognizes Morocco's attractiveness as a platform for providing business, information and communications technology services to European organizations 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. 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.
