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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 May 2021
Employment effect (start)
26 May 2021
Foreseen end date
30 June 2021
Description
Kaufland, a German chain of retail stores, announced that it will hire 100 people in its new store in Timisoara (Timis County) by the end of May 2021. In 2020, the company advertised 1,000 new jobs.
The large German retailer has 1,300 stores in eight countries across Europe. As of December 2020, Kaufland employed an estimated 13,108 workers across 142 stores in Romania, which makes Kaufland the country's largest employer in the retail sector.
Eurofound (2021), Kaufland, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 104902, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/104902.
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