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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 September 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
18 September 2013
Description
The multinational coffeehouse franchise Costa Coffee shall be creating 250 new jobs in the catering sector at the 10 new coffeehouses that it shall be opening across Malta.
The local Costa Coffee franchise operators, Coffee Company Malta Ltd a subsidiary of Buttigieg Holdings and Islands Hotel Group announced that it is investing 1.5 million euro over the course of two years and plans to have 5 of its planned 10 coffeehouses open by the end of March 2013.
The first of these 10 coffeehouses has opened and currently employs 25 employees.
Sources
18 September 2012: Malta Right Now
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Costa Coffee, Business expansion in Malta, factsheet number 74237, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74237.
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