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Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur; Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur; Var
Location of affected unit(s)
La Valette-du-Var
Sector
Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.7 - Retail sale of other goods, except motor vehicles and motorcycles 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 March 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
31 May 2016
Description
Clothing retailer Primark is to create 350 new jobs with the opening of a store in La Valette-du-Var near the city of Toulon. The outlet is due to open on the 13 April. The Irish clothing retailer has already opened 7 stores in France over the last 30 months in Marseille, Dijon, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Villeneuve-La Garenne, Créteil, Lyon and Cagnes-sur-Mer. A new outlet will be opened by the end of 2016 near Lille. Three other openings are scheduled in 2017 (Metz, Toulouse and Val d’Europe near Paris).
Nearly 20 managers will also be employed, with recruitment starting later this month. Primark employs more than 16,000 people - which it plans to increase to 23,000 over the next year - in its 137 stores in the UK, Spain and Ireland.
Sources
3 March 2016: LSA
4 March 2016: Var Matin
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Primark, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 86652, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86652.