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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
3,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 February 2018
Employment effect (start)
8 February 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Portuguese retail company Jerónimo Martins, owner of the Biedronka store chain, announced the creation of 3,000 new jobs across Poland by the end of 2018. The company plans to create about 100 new stores, where about 2,000 employees will be hired; the other 1,000 jobs will be created in the context of organisational changes within the existing units. The source also reports that the company created around 5,000 jobs in 2017.
Jerónimo Martins has been operating in Poland since 1995 and employs an estimated 65,000 people in the country. The company has over 2,820 stores and 16 distribution centres across Poland.
Sources
8 February 2018: Puls HR
8 February 2018: Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Jerónimo Martins, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93252, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93252.
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