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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 losses
Announcement Date
28 August 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
The supermarket chain Coop Danmark, owned by FDB, is to cut 200 jobs in Denmark.
173 people are to be made redundant at the company's headquarters in Albertslund, outside Copenhagen.
The redundancies are part of the plan to change the organisation during the next two years focusing on increasing its competitiveness.
The timeline for the restructuring is yet to be announced.
Coop Danmark has around 1200 stores and around 37,000 emloyees.
Sources
28 August 2012: politiken.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Coop Danmark, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 74061, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74061.
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