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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Cultural And Recreation Goods In Specialised Stores 47.64 - Retail sale of sporting equipment in specialised stores
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 January 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
French retail chain of sport products Decathlon has announced that it will create 300 jobs at its new distribution centre in Łódź. The centre is expected to be operational in March 2017. With a surface of 32,000 square metres the hall will be the second logistic centre of Decathlon in Poland. The unit will supply article to stores in Poland (especially located in the northern part of the country) and Scandinavia.
Decathlon, headquartered in Villeneuve d'Ascq (France), currently has 1120 stores in 30 countries and employs 70,000 employees worldwide. In Poland, the company has been operating since 2001; it has 46 stores and two distribution centres (both located in Gliwice).
Sources
3 January 2017: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Decathlon, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89908, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89908.
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