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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
180 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 April 2023
Employment effect (start)
27 April 2023
Foreseen end date
Description
Coop Denmark, one of the largest supermarket chains in Denmark, has announced it will dismiss 180 employees in its headquarters in Albertslund, which entails an amalgamation of positions and fewer management layers at the headquarter. A number of different supermarket chains for Coop Denmark, have experienced large deficits in recent years. In the beginning of 2023 it announced the closing of one of its supermarkets, namely Irma. The companys deficit in 2022 was historic amounting to a loss of almost 2 million danish kroner each day in 2022.
Eurofound (2023), Coop Danmark , Closure in Denmark, factsheet number 108846, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108846.
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