Retail companies to hire 6,000 people by yearend

Retailers present on the Romanian market announced they would hire some 6,000 people by the end of the year, given their territorial expansion by opening new stores. The biggest recruitment drive in the retail sector is conducted by Real-Hypermarket Romania, operator of the Real hypermarkets network in the local market. Due to the company expanding by another six stores, Real will hire some 2,000 people by the end of this year. “We will create new jobs, about 300 for each new store opened, in addition to the personnel needs for our headquarters,” stated Ramona Toma, manager of Recruitment, Training and Personnel Development for Real-Hypermarket Romania. Real is the hypermarket division of the German group Metro and it opened its first store on the local market in Timisoara in March, following an investment worth 15 million euros. ZF