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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
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 March 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
German discount supermarket chain Lidl has announced that it will create about 600 new jobs at its stores across Poland. The company has also raised salaries by 9.2%.
Lidl operates in every member state of the European Union, except Latvia and Estonia. In Poland, the company has about 670 stores and 9 distribution centres, and employs over 17,000 people.
In 2018, the company announced three restructuring programmes: in April (500 new jobs), September (220 new jobs) and December (200 new jobs).
Eurofound (2019), Lidl, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 97217, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97217.
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