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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Supermarket chain Lidl will hire 400 new employees in Spain in 2015. This is part of its expansion plans in Spain, which includes an investment in excess of EUR 200m with the opening of 40 sales outlets. Most of the new jobs will be in sales. Additionally, the company is looking for young workers that can be hired in different areas such as logistics, finance, marketing and human resources. Lidl entered into the Spanish market in 1994. Currently, it has 530 sales outlets in Spain.
Sources
28 May 2015: ABC
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Lidl, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 83654, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/83654.