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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
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
22 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Lidl Italia, the Italian division of German supermarket chain Lidl, announced the opening of 40 new stores in Italy in 2019 and the hiring of 2,000 new staff.
The announcement of an investment plan of over €350 million in the development of the company's sales network in Italy was made by the managing director of Lidl's real estate development and by Lidl Italia's finance managing director during the launch of the new Lidl sales point in Viale Ergisto Bezzi in Milan.
Today, Lidl has 620 stores in Italy, and employs about 15,000 people.
Eurofound (2019), Lidl Italia, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 96521, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96521.
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