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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 April 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Fashion House Outlet Centre plans to expand its shopping centre in Sosnowiec, which currently employs 250 persons. In time, the Sosnowiec centre will grow to 100 brand shops with 23,000 m2 of retail space, creating 800 new jobs.
Fashion House Outlet Centre is a chain of outlet shopping centres which offer clothes, sports equipment, footwear, and books at reduced prices (the articles in question are from outdated collections and from production surpluses) by producers such as Nike, Puma, Adidas, Levi’s, Mustang, Wittchen, or Gino Rossi.
Sources
6 April 2007: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside (www.wnp.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Fashion House Outlet Centre, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 65219, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65219.
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