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Arcozelo, Barcelos, Ponte de Lima and Fernão Ferro
Sector
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles 47 - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
265 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 September 2020
Employment effect (start)
29 September 2020
Foreseen end date
30 December 2020
Description
The French retail group Mousquetaires, holding the Intermarché and Bricomarché brands, will open three supermarkets Intermarche and three Bricomarche stores all over the country, thus ensuring the creation of 265 new jobs.
With these three new stores, the group Mousquetaires will invest €25.3 million in Portugal, increasing its number of establishments to 331. In total, Mousquetaires will hire 500 employees in 2020.
Eurofound (2020), Mousquetaires, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 102689, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102689.
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