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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.1 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 October 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2019
Foreseen end date
22 October 2019
Description
Kesko Senukai, retail chain of house building, home repairing and improvement stores is going to open a new store K Senukai at the Ozols shopping centre in Riga. The company informed that it has managed to hire a team of 200 employees in 3 month.
The new store needed 110 employees in sales and customer service, 35 in warehouse, 40 in service and sales, and 15 positions in management positions.
K Senukai Ozols is to be opened by the end of 2019. The store will occupy 20,000 m2 space and €6 miliion were invested.
Kesko Senukai Latvia, a daughter company of Lithuanian Kesko Senukai, operates nine stores in Latvia. In 2018 it had a turnover of €90,623 million and a profit of €1.474 million. In 2018, the total number of employees in Latvia was 559.
Eurofound (2019), K Senukai, Business expansion in Latvia, factsheet number 98924, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98924.
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