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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
240 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 August 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The Irish fast fashion retailer, Primark, will open a new store in Milan at the end of 2019, creating 240 new jobs.
The store will be located inside the shopping centre 'Fiordaliso' in Rozzano, covering a surface area of 5,138 square metres. The professional figures the company is currently recruiting are: sales staff, sales area supervisors, warehouse operators, visual merchandisers, and more.
The new store is an addition to the already existing fiver stores that Primark currently runs in Italy. Two new openings in Italy (in Rome and Venice) are planned for the coming years. The company currently owns around 320 stores in 11 different countries worldwide.
Eurofound (2019), Primark, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 98366, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98366.
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