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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco In Specialised Stores 47.2 - Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores
New offshoring locations
Norway
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 May 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
ICA Group is one of the Nordic region’s leading retail companies, with around 2,300 stores in Sweden, Norway and the Baltic States. The Group includes the sales companies ICA Sverige, ICA Norge and Rimi Baltic. In 2007, ICA has decided to simplify the organisational structure as a result, the company will reduce the Swedish organisation by approximately 100 jobs and increase the Norwegian organisation with approximately 80 jobs. There is no information regarding when this will take place.
Sources
16 May 2007: Svenska Dagbladet
Citation
Eurofound (2007), ICA, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 65387, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65387.
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