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Rome, Catania, Chieti, Turin, Bologna, Caserta, Venice and Milan
Sector
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 March 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
The Irish fashion retailer Primark plans to open eight new stores in Italy and to hire more than 2,000 people by the end of 2022. The first new opening is planned in Rome by the summer 2021, while the other new stores will be located in Catania, Chieti, Turin, Bologna, Caserta, Venice and Milan.
Through these new openings, the company will double its total commercial area in the country and significantly expand the total number of its employees up to 3,600 people.
Update 24/10/2022:
A number of stores have already opened:
On 1 June 2021 in Rome (250 jobs).
On 1 December 2021 in Catania (over 150 jobs).
On 6 April 2022 in Milan (250 jobs both in the store and in the offices).
On 8 November 2022 in Turin (150 jobs).
On 9 August 2022 in Bologna (150 jobs).
In october 2022 in Caserta (150-400 jobs).
On 19 July 2022 in Chieti (150 jobs).
A new store will be opened before the end of 2022 in Venice.
New position hired were mainly Sales Representatives, Visual Merchandising Representatives, Cash Office Representatives and part-time Warehouse Representatives and 140 managers across all Italy. Jobs will be both fixed-term and part-time more specifically, 18-hour part-time contracts will be proposed, with availability requested at the weekend, and 20-hour part-time contracts, with a request for availability on shifts 7 days a week.
Eurofound (2021), Primark, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 104395, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/104395.
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