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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
5 April 2022
Foreseen end date
5 June 2022
Description
A new electronic platform in the e-commerce sector will expand and create 100 new positions. According to press reports and the announcements of the Ceo of the Company at the Delphi conference on April 5, 2022, the company, as part of its investment plan to expand and upgrade its services, intends to create 200 jobs.
The company started operating from March 2022 as a startup company with the brand name “Shopflix” run by the Wellcomm company of the Marinakis Group. The Company already employs approximately 50 people and carries out product deliveries throughout Greece in cooperation with the courier company «Courier Center» of the same group.
Eurofound (2022), Shopflix, Business expansion in Greece, factsheet number 106633, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106633.
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