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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
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 September 2017
Employment effect (start)
24 October 2017
Foreseen end date
30 November 2017
Description
British global retailer Tesco has announced that it will cut up to 400 jobs via collective dismissal programme in the main office in Kraków. The company decided to reorganise or dispose of some administrative and specialised operations provided to the chain. The programme will be carried out between 24 October and 30 November 2017.
In March 2017, the company announced a restructuring programme resulting in the reduction of 700 jobs.
Tesco has been operating in Poland since 1992 and currently has about 400 stores in the country and employs about 25,000 people.
Sources
22 September 2017: Portal Spożywczy
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Tesco, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 92178, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92178.
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