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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
8 January 2014
Employment effect (start)
8 January 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Danish food retailer Netto announced plans to open 50 stores and employ 600 people across Poland by the end of 2014.
The discount supermarket chain is owned by the Dansk Supermarked group and it operates in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland. In Poland Netto has been operating since 1995 and currently has 314 stores and 3 distribution centres across the country.
Eurofound (2014), Netto, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 76458, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76458.
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