Type
Business expansion
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Retail
Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles
Retail Sale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco In Specialised Stores
47.2 - Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores

7,000 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
14 December 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012

Description

Supermarket chain Morrisons has announced plans to create 7,000 new jobs in 2012 in order to staff 25 new outlets. Some 300 jobs will be created in a new distribution centre. Half the jobs will go to unemployed people.

The chain had a 4.6% rise in sales in the three months leading to October 2011.


Sources

  • 14 December 2011: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2011), Morrisons, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73294, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73294.