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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 August 2010
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
OG Elektra, an Estonian retail sale company announced that 200 new jobs will be created by the end of 2010 in six new stores. Between January and August 2010, the company created 130 new jobs by opening five new stores mostly in the capital Tallinn. This job creation has been partly supported by the city of Tallinn through the wage subsidy scheme, i.e. persons employed are chosen among those registered as unemployed and the city finances their wage costs up to the national minimum wage. One more store will be opened before the end of December, raising the number of persons employed in the company to 200.
Eurofound (2010), OG Elektra, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 70844, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70844.
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