Auchan

Type
Closure
Country
Poland
Region
Poludniowy; Slaskie; Centralny slaski
Location of affected unit(s)
Mysłowice and Dąbrowa Górnicza
Sector
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
293 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
10 July 2020
Employment effect (start)
10 July 2020
Foreseen end date
31 August 2020

Description

The supermarket chain Auchan announced its plans to close two hypermarkets in Mysłowice and Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, which will cause 293 redundancies. The jobs will be cut throughout a collective dismissal programme by the end of August 2020. The conditions of the redundancy programme were negotiated with the local trade unions, and dismissed workers will receive severance pay according to their seniority. The company announced that the stores is no longer profitable. 

In Poland, Auchan has been operating since 1996; currently, the chain has 76 hypermarkets and employs about 22,000 across the country.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2020), Auchan, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 101270, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101270.