The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.59 - Retail sale of furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialised stores
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 December 2012
Employment effect (start)
11 December 2012
Foreseen end date
1 August 2013
Description
IKEA, designer and retailer of household equipment, is to hire 200 employees as a new store opens in Borlänge. Management and other key positions will be recruited internally. The remaining positions will be publicly announced.
IKEA is a part of IKEA Group. IKEA Group, with INGKA Holding as parent company, is in turn owned by Stichting INGKA Foundation. IKEA Group operates 290 IKEA stores in 26 countries. Earlier employment adjustments by IKEA in Sweden are covered in fact sheets 18108, 13410, 11767, 9649, 6045, 6044, 6046.
The recruitment campaign has been launched and is meant to be finished by August 2013, when the facility is complete and the store will be installed.
Sources
11 December 2012: Dalarnas Tidningar
11 December 2012: Sveriges Television
Citation
Eurofound (2012), IKEA, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 74633, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74633.
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