Happy 21st Jobs For VeryHappyPig
Updated : May 12, 2009
VeryHappyPig celebrates a unique 21st today. A jobs 21st as our jobs Bin goes over the 21,000 mark after Aldi announced it would be creating a total of 650 Irish jobs yesterday.
VHP has now brought you news of over 21,000 jobs since we launched four months ago, that’s an average of 5250 jobs a month and 1312.5-to be precise- jobs a week.
Construction of a new €100m Aldi distribution facility got under way in Mitchelstown in Cork today.
The chain says the centre will create 160 new jobs when it opens in two years time.
The expansion is part of a €350m investment by the German-owned group through which it plans to increase the number of shops it operates in the Republic to 100 over the next three years.
The group says these new shops will employ an additional 490 people.