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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.5 - Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores
240 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 September 2010
Employment effect (start)
24 September 2010
Foreseen end date
1 March 2011
Description
Ikea, one of the main world's manufacturers and sellers of furnishing products, is to create 240 new jobs, with the opening of a new store in Catania (Sicily). The new store will be opened in March 2011. On 21 September the recruitment process has started and Ikea has received around 24,000 CV for 240 job positions.
In Italy Ikea has 18 stores and 6,300 employees.
Sources
24 September 2010: La Repubblica
17 September 2010: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Ikea, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 70974, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70974.
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