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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco 46.39 - Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 November 2012
Employment effect (start)
13 November 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
Maxima Eesti, subsidiary of Lithuanian international retail chain Maxima, has announced that they will open four new stores across Estonia this month creating 350 new jobs.
This will bring the company’s total number of recruitments in 2012 to 600. In February Maxima announced that they would create 500 new jobs in 2012 (See related case), which means that they will create 100 additional jobs this year.
Overall, Maxima will have more than 3,600 employees after this business expansion.
Sources
13 November 2012: Aripaev
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Maxima Eesti, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 74501, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74501.
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