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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.1 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 February 2007
Employment effect (start)
15 February 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Lidl is German a discount trade chain, which intends to establish 15 new shops in different Slovenian towns in 2007. On the 31 March 2007 Lidl opened 15 new shops in Slovenia. The company planned to create 400 new jobs (approximately 25 by each shop).
According to the latest news from Lidl, the company is expanding fast in Slovenia. Therefore, with the opening of the shops the company already employed 600 workers in Slovenia and intends to employ another 200 by the end 2007.
Sources
19 March 2007: Finance
15 February 2007: Finance
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Lidl, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 64951, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64951.
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