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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 January 2022
Employment effect (start)
24 May 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
Picnic, a Dutch online supermarket, announced the creation of 350 jobs at its new logistics centre in Uentrop-Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany.
Picnic is expanding in NRW due to good sales figures and growing demand and opened a new logistic centre in Uentrop-Hamm. On 24 May 2022, Picnic announced to hire 280 employees by the end of 2022, in addition to the already 70 employees already hired trough the opening of the new location in May 2022.
Picnic launched its business in Germany in 2018. Picnic opened its fifth logistics centre in NRW, Germany. Currently, there are 25 locations in NRW that supply 55 different cities with purchases.
Sources
24 January 2022: Westfälischer Anzeiger (online) (www.wa.de)
24 May 2022: Westfälischer Anzeiger (online) (www.wa.de)
Citation
Eurofound (2022), Picnic, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 106891, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106891.
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