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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 July 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
In July 2022, Action, the Dutch company specialised in the sale of low-priced products, has announced the recruitment of 400 people, at the end of 2022. The recruitment is for the opening of its fifth logistics base, to the northwest of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). The new base will have a surface area of 56,000 m2.The logistical site was inaugurated at the beginning of June 2023. It employed 250 workers, with the aim of reaching a total workforce of 400.
France is the largest market of Action and it currently has 665 shops in the country.
This announcement follows a former recruitment announcement of 200 job creations in 2022 (Action France 2022 - FR).
Eurofound (2022), Action, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 107113, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107113.
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