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.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.1 - Warehousing and storage
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
28 October 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
On 28 October 2014, drugstore chain Rossmann announced the creation of 300 jobs at its newly opened regional logistic centre for the southern Poland in Pyskowice near Katowice. The investment is worth PLN 70 mln (€16.60 mln USD 21.mln). The sources report that the number of employees will grow by 100 in the next five years.
Rossmann is a drugstore chain operating in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey and Albania. The company has been operating in Poland since 1993. The chain has 945 stores and it employs 13,000 people in 400 locations across the country.
The ERM reported on previously announced restructuring events in 2014 and 2010.
Sources
28 October 2014: Portal Spożywczy
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Rossmann Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77821, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77821.
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