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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.51 - Retail sale of textiles in specialised stores
260 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 June 2021
Employment effect (start)
17 June 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
Primark, an Irish discount fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, is to open its first store in the Czech Republic (Prague's Wenceslas Square) in mid-June 2021. This will create 260 jobs and the recruitment for salesforce has already begun. As of June 2021, it is still not clear when the recruitment will be finished.
Primark has announced a full-time salary of CZK 28,000 (€ 1,100) a month.
The first store's total sales area is expected to exceed more than 4,600 square meters and occupy three floors. Another store is to be established in the Olympia shopping centre in Brno, and is expected to be operational in 2022.
Globally, Primark operates over 370 stores in 13 countries and employs about 78,000 people worldwide.
Eurofound (2021), Primark, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 104858, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/104858.
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