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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 September 2006
Employment effect (start)
6 September 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
Rimi is a store chain that offers food and primary goods. The selection of goods includes also some garments, cosmetics and electronic devices. In Narva the company Rimi Eesti Food opened a new hypermarket that is the first of its kind in the area of Ida-Virumaa. It has been announced that about 100 individuals are hired in the new store. All in all, the firm Rimi Eesti Food has already opened seven hypermarkets in Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. The retail group Rimi Baltic owns 196 stores of three different conceptions all over the three Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Eurofound (2006), Rimi Eesti Food, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 64039, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64039.