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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.5 - Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores
230 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 March 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 November 2008
Description
IKEA, the Swedish furniture giant, has announced that it is to create approximately 230 new jobs at a new store which is currently being built in Klagenfurt, the capital of the province of Carinthia. A total of € 54 million are planned to be invested in the new site. According to Helen Duphorn, the Chief Executive of IKEA Austria, the construction period is planned to be terminated by November 2008, when the new store will open its doors. Ms Duphorn expects some 1.5 million buyers per year.
Sources
4 March 2008: Der Standard
Citation
Eurofound (2008), IKEA, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 66431, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66431.
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