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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
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 October 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
Tesco-Global, the Hungarian subsidiary of British retail store chain Tesco, is planning on employing 500 new workers in the country. The company is hiring so that they could adequately serve the increased traffic and demand in the pre-Christmas period. The recruitment campaign is starting in the beginning of October 2021, with plans to hire new permanent workers in both the in-person, and the online stores. Tesco-Global operates several hundred stores in the country.
Eurofound (2021), Tesco-Global, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 105430, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105430.
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