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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 April 2015
Employment effect (start)
22 April 2015
Foreseen end date
21 April 2018
Description
Online retail company, Zalando, is to create 200 jobs in Dublin, over the next three years, with the opening of a new research and development centre.
Recruitment for positions in data science and maths and engineering disciplines has already begun. The Dublin-based recruitment is being supported by IDA Ireland.
The new centre is part of a European expansion for Zalando, which operates in 15 countries.
Sources
22 April 2015: The Irish Times
20 April 2015: Independent Ireland
22 April 2015: RTE news
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Zalando, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 79334, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79334.
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