The poetry of the thing would require the use of the word "contract". However, financial reports are not poetry. These are cases where for example a bank sells a branch to another bank and obviously all the employment contracts are transferred with the branch.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q="cessione di c...

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Note added at 34 mins (2010-05-15 08:33:51 GMT)
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BTW, there seems to a sort of mania on Kudoz, driven by legal experts, that the only acceptable translation of "cessione" is "assignment". Even the Garzanti gives "sell" as one of the meanings of cedere.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-05-15 10:03:15 GMT)
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"transferred contracts" doesn't do the trick if you ask me. Put yourself in the position of an analyst in LA or Tokyo. In my mind he is scratching his head, so just say it how it is and put him out of his misery. Reading it more carefully, my answer should be "transfers FROM other companies". You only get points for poetry in the Letter from the Chairman/CEO.
Again, if I went for a job and they said "we'll give you an 'open-ended' contract", I'd feel a bit worried". If they said it was a "permanent" contract, then I'd feel exactly the same way as an Italian when the get a "contratto a tempo indeterminato", a job for life.*