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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.10 - Warehousing and storage
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 July 2021
Employment effect (start)
21 July 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
US-based off-price clothing and home accessories retailer TJX Europe, a subsidiary of TJX Companies, announced that it will create at least 300 jobs at its new logistics centre in Nowy Kisielin near Zielona Góra in the coming months. The unit, consisting of 20,000 square meters, was launched on 21 July 2021, and it will serve as a temporary site until the construction of the company's biggest European centre in neighbouring Sulechów will be finished.
TJX is a leading supplier of clothes and home accessories. The company has over 4,500 shops in 9 countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, UK, Germany, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia), four e-commerce sites and employs approximately 320,000 employees worldwide.
Eurofound (2021), TJX Europe, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 105126, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105126.
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