Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The Spar Croatia, a local branch of big international wholesale chain of the same name, began the construction of logistics center in Donja Zdencina in the Zagreb County which will employ 500 workers. They will be employed on permanent and full-time employment contracts. The main reason for the construction on the mentioned logistic center is the broadening of the Spar business activities in the City of Zagreb and its surrounding as well as desire to provide better services to current and future customers. This logistics center will be the largest of its kind in Croatia. The center will have an area of more than 75,000m2 and will have a capacity of over 100,000 pallets. Work on the project will cost over EUR 100mn and the first phase of the logistic center is planned to be finished until the summer of 2024. As planned, the site was opened at the end of August 2024 and the jobs are being created now. The company started to announce available posts for the new labor force, which is a quite demanding task given the current serious lack of workers in Croatia. Advertisements for jobs in the mentioned logistic center are published on several web pages, like for example, https://www.spar.hr and https://mojposao.hr. The company is further actively searching for new workers, whom it educates at locations of its existing distributive centers. Official presentation was held on 8 October 2024, when the Spar Hrvatska retail chain presented its new logistics center. valued more than EUR 110 million. The center is located on a plot of 370,000-square-meters, and with three halls it extends across 75,000 square meters. It enables the employment of 500 workers. The company announces that new logistics center means better quality in the supply of their stores and, ultimately, better service to customers and suppliers.
Eurofound (2022), SPAR, Business expansion in Croatia, factsheet number 107416, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/107416.
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