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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
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 February 2017
Employment effect (start)
21 February 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Romanian subsidiary of German discount supermarket chain Lidl announced that up to 500 new jobs will be created in ten new stores in Romania by the end of 2017. Local Lidl also plans to increase the salaries of its employees, along with the opening of the new stores.
Lidl Romania currently operates a network of 200 stores in Romania and over 10,000 stores in Europe.
Sources
21 February 2017: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Lidl Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 90326, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90326.
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