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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.10 - Warehousing and storage
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
12 January 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Swedish furniture and household goods retailer IKEA has opened a new distribution centre in Jarosty near Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, where 100 new jobs will be create within the next few months. The centre, with a space of 22,500 m2, will be operated by an external service provider, FM Logistic, which IKEA has been cooperating with since 2001. It will deal with Internet orders, with the annual volume of orders to reach 100,000 within the first year of its operations. The new logistics investment will improve the quality of deliveries and order completion time.
The distribution centre in Jarosty has been operating since 2001; currently, it employs about 400 people.
Sources
12 January 2018: Property News
Citation
Eurofound (2018), FM Logistic, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93059, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93059.
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