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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
750 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Internet retailer eMag, which is part of the South-African group Naspers, will create 750 jobs at its new logistics centre in Bucharest by 2019. The new positions are for specialists and logistics operators. With a surface of 120,000 square metres, the centre will be eMag's first logistic hub in Romania. The company announced an investment of €64 million in the new centre which is expected to generate 3,250 new jobs overall.
Earlier in August 2017, eMag added 100 jobs for data scientists and business analysts at its existing office in Bucharest.
The company currently employs about 1,400 people in Romania and another 2,400 people in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland.
In Romania, the company has been operational since 2001.
Sources
29 November 2017: Ziarul Financiar
29 November 2017: Profit.ro
29 November 2017: Forbes Romania
Citation
Eurofound (2017), eMag, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 92837, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92837.
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