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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Household Goods 46.43 - Wholesale of electrical household appliances
1,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
31 March 2021
Employment effect (start)
31 March 2021
Foreseen end date
30 September 2022
Description
As announced on 31 March 2021, the German consumer goods retailer MediaMarktSaturn, owned by German holding company Ceconomy, will be closing 13 of its 419 shops which will result in the loss of 1,000 jobs in Germany until September 2022. According to the management, the e-commerce part of the company’s sales doubled in 2020 due to the pandemic, making changes to the company necessary. As of today, it is unclear which shops will be closed, nor are information on a social plan available.
The restructuring programme in Germany is part of a Europe-wide restructuring programme including the reduction of 3,500 of 45,000 jobs announced in August 2020.
31 March 2021: Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (online) (www.rnd.de)
Citation
Eurofound (2021), MediaMarktSaturn, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 104578, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/104578.
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