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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.5 - Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
25 May 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
IKEA, designer and retailer of household equipment, is to hire 150-180 employees as a new store opens in Umeå.
The new store will open in the spring of 2016 and will become the 20th IKEA location in Sweden. The recruitment process starts 25 May 2015. The positions to be filled are distributed across seven functions: Sales, Logistics, Communication & Interior Design, Customer Relations, Human Resources, Business Navigation & Operations and IKEA Food.
IKEA Group, with INGKA Holding as parent company, is owned by Stichting INGKA Foundation. IKEA Group operates 267 IKEA stores in 25 countries. Earlier IKEA employment adjustments in Sweden have been reported by the ERM ( December 2012, July 2011, March 2009, October 2008 )
Sources
19 May 2015: svt.se
20 May 2015: Press release by Ikea
Citation
Eurofound (2015), IKEA, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 83478, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83478.
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