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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.75 - Retail sale of cosmetic and toilet articles in specialised stores
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 January 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Drugstore chain Rossmann announced its plans to open 150 new stores and employ an additional 2,000 staff across Poland by the end of 2014.
Rossmann is a drugstore chain operating in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey and Albania. The company has been operating in Poland since 1993. It has 850 stores and employs 12,000 people across the country.
The ERM reported previously in 2010 on job creation by Rossmann in Poland.
Sources
10 January 2014: Onet.pl
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Rossmann Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 76483, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76483.
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