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Other Services Other Service Activities Other Personal Service Activities 96.01 - Washing and (dry-)cleaning of textile and fur products
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 February 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2017
Foreseen end date
29 February 2020
Description
The network of dry cleaner Sequoia Pressing aims to open 50 new stores in the newt three years and to recruit 50 employees per year within this period, so that the total of job creation will reach 150 by 2020. The concept of this new brand (with franchise outside the Parisian region) is to propose to customers environmentally friendly services based on a US technology, the "GreenEarth Cleaning process" that uses liquid silicone in place of petrochemicals. Essentially liquefied sand, silicone is non-hazardous and non-toxic to the environment.
Eurofound (2017), Sequoia Pressing, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 90286, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90286.
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