Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Centre-Est; Rhône-Alpes; Rhône
Location of affected unit(s)
Belleville
Sector
Transportation / Storage
Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities
Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation
52.10 - Warehousing and storage

380 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
11 March 2019
Employment effect (start)
14 March 2019
Foreseen end date
31 July 2020

Description

Kuehne + Nagel logistics is going to increase its workforce at this site in Belleville from the current 120 employees to 500 by 2020. The 70,000 square metres sites will be used as a distribution centre by the Dutch retail group Action. 

The Action group is growing rapidly in France, at a rate of nearly 80 new stores per year. Six years after its entry in the French market, which has become its first market, it now has 441 stores. Action is present in seven European countries and employs 45,000 people with a turnover of €3.4 billion.


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2019), Kuehne + Nagel, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 97341, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97341.