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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
900 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 April 2018
Employment effect (start)
19 April 2018
Foreseen end date
31 May 2018
Description
The Danish grocery chain Fakta, one of the four supermarket chains within the Coop Group, announced on the 19th April that 47 shops will be closed by the end of May. Fakta is one of the four supermarket chains within the Coop Group and before its closure Fakta consisted of 400 shops all over Denmark. All of the 900 employees, of which 400 are under 18 years of age, will be made redundant once the closure will be carried out. Coop will offer those jobs in other shops where possible. The main reason for the restructuring is a deficit of DKK 18 million (EUR 2.4 million) despite a financial improvement over the last year. The Coop Group employed 40,290 employees among 1,174 shops in 2016.
Sources
19 April 2018: politiken.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Fakta, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 93833, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93833.
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