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Barcelona - The maker of Blackberry phone handsets, Canada's Research In Motion, said on Monday it was recruiting 3 000 new workers to keep pace with demand despite the global economic crisis.
"We have grown our employees base by 50% in 2008. And we're still hiring and we plan to keep hiring.
"We have growth in our business," co-chief executive Jim Balsillie told AFP on the sidelines of an industry event.
"We hired about 4 000 people in 2008, currently we have 3 000 open jobs. We're still hiring a lot."
The optimism at Research in Motion contrasts with other makers of handsets such as Nokia, the world's biggest, which announced 1 200 job cuts late last year.
Japanese-Swedish group Sony-Ericsson has said it plans to slash 2 000 positions.
RIM reported a 66% rise in sales in the September-November period of last year compared with the equivalent period of 2007.
"We're still seeing a wonderful momentum in Blackberry. We shipped our 50 millionth Blackberry" two weeks ago, Balsillie added.