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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles 47 - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
5 May 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The French company Noz, which specialises in buying and reselling excess manufacturing inventory, is to create 130 new jobs by 2017 at its site in Pagny-la-Château. The site opened in September 2015, initially with 30 employees, and has expanded to a total workforce of 60 employees as of May 2016. The company expects to recruit an additional 130 employees by 2017 including 90 employees before December 2016. Noz has experience with such recruitment events in the past, and created around 300 jobs in 2010 and up to 1000 in 2014. The company has set up a partnership with the Public employment service, Pôle Emploi, to recruit employees with low level qualifications mainly through the simulation recruitment method. Noz currently has about 4,500 employees in France.
Sources
5 May 2016: Le Progrès
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Noz, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 87484, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87484.
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