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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles 46 - Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 September 2024
Employment effect (start)
9 September 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
Lidl, a retail chain store, will create 1000 new jobs in Poland. On 9 September, Lidl launched a major recruitment drive under the slogan ‘Secure work. For years’, it will last for four weeks. Employees will be recruited for the shops and warehouses in different locations across Poland.
Lidl has been operating in Poland since 2002 and employs about 27,000 people; the operates more than 12,000 shops in 31 countries, and more than 900 in Poland.
Previous business expansions were announced in December 2023, with 600 new jobs (Lidl 2023-PLSeptember 2023, with 200 new jobs (Lidl-2023a-PL), November 2022, with 1,400 jobs created (Lidl-2022-PL), March 2022, with 1,500 new jobs (Lidl-2022a-PL), February 2022, with 300 jobs created, (Lidl-2022b-PL), August 2021, with 500 jobs created (Lidl-2021-PL), February 2021, with 2,600 jobs created (Lidl-2021-PL).
Eurofound (2024), Lidl, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 201565, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201565.
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