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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
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 October 2011
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
18 October 2011
Description
The French retailer Carrefour opened a new store in Romania on the 18th of October. The store creates 350 new jobs. The new hypermarket is located at Chitila, near Bucharest. This is the hypermarket number eight in Bucharest metropolitan area.
And the group plans to expand further: It announced the opening of two other new stores in the commercial parks BelRom from Botosani (Botosani County, North-East region) and Deva (Hunedoara county, West region) for this year.
In the last year, the French group reported a turnover of 1.1 billion Euros in Romania.
Sources
18 October 2011: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Carrefour Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 72658, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72658.
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