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Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Intermediation service activities for retail sale 47.91 - Intermediation service activities for non-specialised retail sale
580 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2019
Foreseen end date
31 October 2019
Description
The UK-based e-commerce beauty and wellbeing retailer The Hut Group (THG) has announced that it will create 580 jobs at its new warehouse in Magnice near Wrocław, Poland, in 2019. Currently, the company is recruiting 180 warehouse and production staff as the unit is expected to be launched in July 2019. Further 400 employees will start work in October 2019. The Hut Group sells a variety of products with focus on health, beauty, fitness and lifestlyle. In Poland, the company has been operating since 2018.
Eurofound (2019), The Hut Group, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 97988, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97988.
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