The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
750 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 September 2003
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Convenience chain Mace hopes to move into the larger supermarket sector with a €50 million strategy which it predicts will create 750 jobs over three years. 30 Mace supermarkets will open by 2004, bringing the number of branches in Ireland to 510.
BWG Foods, which also holds the Spar franchise in the Republic of Ireland, reported turnover of €763 million in 2002. It plans to create 1,000 jobs in Spar outlets in a €200 million expansion over the next three years.
Sources
27 September 2003: The Irish Times
Citation
Eurofound (2003), Mace, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 59982, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59982.
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