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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.19 - Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 December 2019
Employment effect (start)
20 December 2019
Foreseen end date
31 January 2020
Description
Kesko Senukai Lithuania, one of the largest retail chains for building and household supplies in Lithuania, is to create around 100 new jobs in Klaipeda in January 2020. The company will open a new store in Klaipeda that will occupy 11,000 square meters space. Currently Kesko Senukai Lithuania employs 3,378 employees.
Kesko Senukai is a group of companies which runs the largest retail chain of house building, home repairing and improvement stores in the Baltics. The group owes 85 stores in Lithuania, 16 stores in Latvia and Estonia, and 14 stores in Belorussia. Kesko Senukai Lithuania (previously named Senuku prekybos centras) was established in Lithuania in 1992.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2019), Kesko Senukai Lithuania, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 99515, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99515.
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