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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
900 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 June 2016
Employment effect (start)
16 June 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
French retailer Carrefour announced the recruitment of 280 new employees for the new store that will be opened by the end of 2016 in Park Lake Mall. The company plans to hire cashiers, trade workers, sales operators, video surveillance operators, forklift workers and others.
Carrefour has 9,000 employees in Romania.
Update, 14 July 2016: Carrefour announced that 900 persons will be hired by the end of 2016, with the opening of 3 new stores. Two stores will be open in Bucharest (Veranda Mall and ParkLake Mall). It is still unknown the location of the third store.
Sources
16 June 2016: Profit.ro
18 September 2014: Carrefour press release
5 July 2016: Wall Steet Romania
5 July 2016: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Carrefour, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 87879, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87879.
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