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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 December 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2011
Foreseen end date
2 December 2011
Description
Slovenian retail chain Mercator created 250 new jobs with the opening of a new shopping centre on December 1, 2011. The new shopping centre Mercator Maribor Tabor in Maribor (Podravska region) contains a Mercator hypermarket and more than 50 other tenant shops.
In addition to the 150 jobs created by the hypermarket, another 200 are created in the tenant shops.
Sources
2 December 2011: Mercator
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Mercator Maribor Tabor, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 73126, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73126.