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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
128 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 September 2014
Employment effect (start)
25 September 2014
Foreseen end date
31 August 2015
Description
On 25 September 2014, food delivery service Delivery Hero announced to shut down its location in Braunschweig which will affect 128 staff. 47 employees will be dismissed immediately. The remaining 81 jobs will be cut in two further stages by August 2015. The company announced 50 jobs to be vacant in Berlin and clarified that applicants from Braunschweig will be given priority.
Delivery Hero is the operator of lieferheld and pizza.de and has over 10 percent market share of all food orders in Germany.
Sources
25 September 2014: gruenderszene.de
25 September 2014: Delivery Hero Press Release
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Delivery Hero, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 77721, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77721.
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