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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 January 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The German multinational company of the retail sector Lidl Italia announced the start of a recruitment campaign with the goal of hiring around 200 new workers, who will be employed in the over 600 stores owned by the company throughout the country.
The company is looking for different professional figures: sales staff and specialised sales staff, branch operators, warehouse workers. Prospective workers need to have an high-school diploma or to be graduated.
Currently, Lidl Italia employs 18,500 workers in Italy.
Eurofound (2021), Lidl Italia, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 103540, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103540.
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