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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 June 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
26 June 2008
Description
The French retailer Carrefour announced the opening on 26 June 2008 of a new hypermarket in Pitesti with an investment of approximately EUR 20 million. The new investment will result in the creation of 400 jobs. In 2007 the company reported a turnover for Romania of EUR 866 million and the estimated turnover of the hypermarkets division for 2008 is over EUR 1 billion.
Sources
25 June 2008: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Carrefour, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 66787, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66787.