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Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Non-specialised retail sale 47.12 - Other non-specialised retail sale
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 January 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
DeBORLA will open four new stores in 2017 and will recruit 100 employees by the end of the year. For each store a total of 20 workers will be recruited. The company's first store was opened in 1999. Today DeBORLA has 500 employees in Portugal. By 2020 DeBORLA intends to open 20 new stores, an investment amounting to €30 million. The stores are divided into different areas such as Kitchen, Home Decor, Storage, Home Textiles, Bathroom, Cleaning, DIY, Gardening etc.
Sources
20 January 2017: Ekonomista
Citation
Eurofound (2017), DeBORLA, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 90432, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90432.
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