The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Intermediation service activities for retail sale 47.91 - Intermediation service activities for non-specialised retail sale
324 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 March 2020
Employment effect (start)
20 February 2020
Foreseen end date
31 March 2020
Description
Online shop Barbora providing food delivery at home services created around 324 new jobs in Vilnius in the period from 20 February 2020 to 30 March 2020. The main cause of the business expansion is a quarantine regime in Lithuania. To control the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Lithuanian Government declared quarantine on the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania as of 16 March 2020. Quarantine rules in Lithuania provide for limited number of people in supermarkets, thus more and more people tend to use Barbora‘s services and order food products at home. Barbora belongs to Maxima Group since 2017.
Eurofound (2020), Barbora, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 100125, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/100125.
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