The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 September 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The US-based fast food chain Burger King is recruiting 500 new employees all across Finland. The plan is to expand the activities of existing restaurants with 200 new jobs and to open ten new restaurants with 300 new jobs during autumn 2017. New restaurants are to open at least in Levi, Mikkeli, Imatra, Porvoo and Joensuu. Burger King has so far opened 34 restaurants in the country in the past four years. ERM last reported of Burger King's expansion in Finland in January 2017, a recruitment that also aimed at expanding the business by 500 new employees.
Sources
26 September 2017: Talouselämä
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Burger King, Business expansion in Finland, factsheet number 92227, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92227.
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