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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 March 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 June 2021
Description
The well-known Italian supermarket chain Conad will open two new stores in Tuscany, in Grosseto and Orbetello, by the end of June 2021. The two new openings will entail the hiring of 100 new employees. Specifically, there will be 80 hirings at Conad in Grosseto, while 20 workers will be employed in the Orbetello store.
Selections for the new personnel will start soon and will be ended by the end of the spring, when the two stores will start being operative.
Eurofound (2021), Conad, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 103919, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103919.
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