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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 March 2017
Employment effect (start)
5 March 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Lidl, the German global discount supermarket chain, will hire at least 150 new employees in Komenda (Osrednjeslovenska region) by the end of this year. The company, which now employs 1,320 employees, will hire from 50 to 100 new workers to work at the international logistics centre in Maribor and from 100 to 150 more people for unspecified locations or jobs.
Sources
4 March 2017: Dnevnik
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Lidl, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 90478, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90478.
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