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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco In Specialised Stores 47.2 - Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 July 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
Germany-based discount retailer Lidl has announced plans to expand its business and create over 1,000 new jobs in its stores and logistics centres in 2021. Thanks to high sales, company's stores are growing across the country. This year, Lidl has opened thirteen of them, and by the end of the year, eleven more will be added. In addition to stores, Lidl is expanding its logistics facilities. At the beginning of July 2021, it opened a giant logistics centre in Buštěhrad near the city of Kladno. It is one of the company's largest warehouses in Europe, covering almost 60,000 square meters and creating up to 500 new jobs.
Eurofound (2021), Lidl, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 105106, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105106.
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