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Accommodation / Food 56 - Food and beverage service activities 56 - Food and beverage service activities 56 - Food and beverage service activities
7,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 January 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Subway, a chain of sandwich shops, is to create 7,000 jobs across the UK and Ireland. The chain is currently planning to add a further 600 stores to the 1400 stores it currently operates in the UK. It is not known how many of these stores are in the UK, and how many of the 7,000 planned new jobs across the UK and Ireland will be in the UK. As of 15 February 2009 it is not known when these new stores will be opened.
Sources
29 January 2009: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Subway, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68181, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68181.