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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 January 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Esselunga, one of the main Italian companies operating in the large-scale retail trade, is to create 2,000 new jobs in the 2014-15 period. The planned job creation arises from a new business plan that envisages the opening of new supermarkets in Italy (the next new openings will be in Florence, Rome and Turin).
Esselunga operates 144 supermarkets and hasĀ around 20,600 employees in Italy.
Sources
21 January 2014: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Esselunga, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 76578, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76578.