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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 February 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Cdiscount, the French leader in distance selling, announces a recruitment of more than 400 people in 2019 in Cestas, near Bordeaux, Gironde. After recruiting 450 employees (on fixed-term and permanent contracts) and 150 trainees or alternates in 2018, the company wants to stay on this dynamic in 2019, according to Objectif Aquitaine - La Tribune Bordeaux. Recruitment will be carried out in the following areas: logistics, sales, IT, or support functions.
Eurofound (2019), Cdiscount, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 96723, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96723.
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