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Trade: Carrefour to hike headcount
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-05-17 14:29

Carrefour SA plans to recruit tens of thousands of new employees to support its future expansions in the next three years, Oriental Morning Post reported yesterday.

The biggest overseas retailer in China will recruit 3,000 senior managers and 40,000 regular employees to work for its new outlets, said Meng Yiyan, the human resource executive of Carrefour China.

Carrefour has opened 75 outlets since it entered the Chinese market in 1995 and became the No 1 foreign retailer in China with sales of 17.4 billion yuan (US$2.18 billion) last year.


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