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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco In Specialised Stores 47.24 - Retail sale of bread, cakes, flour confectionery and sugar confectionery in specialised stores
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 March 2023
Employment effect (start)
30 September 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
The retail chain Robin from the City of Križevci announced a plan to expand its workforce by 100 employees. The company states that for 2023, the new hires are part of a plan to expand to 57 stores, opening five new stores.
Since 2021, Robin has had the status of an integrative workshop with eight employees with disabilities. The company also carried out a project of investment in new technology and equipment, as well as the construction and expansion of the office space of the integrative workshop.
Robin currently employs more than 350 employees who work in 52 Robin stores in the Koprivnica-Križevci County and the Robin bakery in the City of Križevci.
Eurofound (2023), Robin , Business expansion in Croatia, factsheet number 108641, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108641.
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