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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.75 - Retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 October 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2012
Foreseen end date
11 October 2012
Description
As reported on October 09, 2012, German drug store chain took on 2,000 former employees of the insolvent drug store chain Schlecker (see here) and its subsidiary IhrPlatz (see here).
Most of them come from 100 IhrPlatz branches that Rossmann took over. Additionally, Rossmann took over all IhrPlatz apprentices, including those which are not from the branches mentioned above, and some former employees of Schlecker.
In total, Rossmann now employs 23,000 people in Germany.
Sources
11 October 2012: Rossmann
9 October 2012: Die Welt
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Rossmann, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 74448, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74448.
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