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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.1 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 August 2007
Employment effect (start)
25 August 2007
Foreseen end date
Description
Engrotuš, a general retailer and a part of the Tuš retail group, has opened a new store in Ljubljana that will employ 100. The new store, which opened on August 25th 2007, involved an investment of 18 million EUR and measures 10,000 m2. In addition to Engrotuš’s outlet, Engrotuš has constructed twenty-one new stores that it will rent to other firms. It has been estimated that these firms will create employment for a further 100 workers. By the end of 2007, it has also been estimated that the Tuš group will invest a further 110-15 million EUR in Slovenia in the development of new retail sites.
Eurofound (2007), Engrotuš, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 65718, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65718.
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