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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
7,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
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://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73294.