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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Textiles 13 - Manufacture of textiles
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 January 2022
Employment effect (start)
26 January 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
As announced on 26 January 2022, the German sportswear company adidas will be hiring more then 800 new employees in Germany. Adidas will mostly be reoccupying open vacancies, however, a part of the new hirings are newly created jobs. Furthermore, adidas has created 50 new apprenticeship or dual curriculum vacancies. New hirings will mainly be working in adidas stores but also in the digital sector, IT and Data & Analytics.
This hiring is part of a worldwide campain where they will recrute 2,800 new employees. Currently, adidas has 62,000 employees worldwide with 7,700 located in Germany.
Eurofound (2022), Adidas, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 106274, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106274.
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