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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.19 - Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
270 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 December 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 April 2014
Description
Home superstore The Range will open two new stores in Gloucester and Sheffield until April 2014, creating 270 jobs in total. This includes 150 jobs to be created in a store at Sheffield, opening in March, and 120 jobs in Gloucester, where a new store will open in April 2014.
Stores will sell the usual assortment of DIY, homewares and furniture across 16 departments.
Eurofound (2013), The Range, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76377, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76377.
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