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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
900 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 July 2012
Employment effect (start)
10 July 2012
Foreseen end date
31 October 2012
Description
Cora, a French-Belgian retail chain operating in Romania, announced plans to hire 900 new employees by the end of October 2012.
The new staff will work in two newly opened stores of the company, one located in Bucharest (600 workplaces) and the other in Bacău (300 workplaces), in the North-East region of the country.
At present Cora employs 3,665 people in Romania.
Sources
11 July 2012: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Cora Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 73877, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73877.
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