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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.5 - Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores
140 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 October 2019
Employment effect (start)
15 November 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Home improvement retail company Leroy Merlin announced plans to open its new store in Wieliczka, with an area of 14,100 square metres, next to shopping mall Galeria Wieliczka. The business expansion is expected to create 140 new job positions, with the store to open by early November 2019.
Operation in the country since 1994, the company runs over 60 stores employing over 10,000 people. The company already registered four additional events of job creation in 2019: 160 new jobs in February, 160 in March, 130 in July and 130 in August.
Eurofound (2019), Leroy Merlin, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 99000, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99000.
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