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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
479 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 April 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
SPAR Slovenija, a part of the multinational group SPAR, is the second largest retail chain in Slovenia. It has 9 megamarkets (more than 4000 m2 sales area), 31 hypermarkets (more than 1000 m2 sales area) and 25 supermarkets (up to 1000 m2 sales area). In 2007, it considerably increased its activities and also the number of employees by 479 people (14 percent increase), i.e. from 3389 to 3868.
Sources
23 April 2008: Delo
Citation
Eurofound (2008), SPAR Slovenija, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 66538, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66538.
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