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(46 - 47) Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 August 2025
Employment effect (start)
20 August 2025
Foreseen end date
31 December 2025
Description
Auchan Romania, subsidiary of the French international retail group, will hire 120 persons by the end of 2025 at Oradea ATAC store. The available positions are for commercial department managers, multi-skilled sales operator and security guard.
Auchan Romania has over 470 stores in its portfolio, including 26 classic hypermarkets, 8 ATAC Hiper Discount hypermarkets, 9 supermarkets, the Auchan Go smart store, almost 400 MyAuchan ultra-proximity stores, most of which are in Petrom stations, over 40 Simply by Auchan franchise stores, as well as the online store auchan.ro.
With the Oradea opening, the ATAC network, appreciated for its advantageous pricing policy that decreases according to volume, will reach 10 units nationwide.
In Romania, the company has a workforce of 6,663 employees (data at the end of 2024).
Eurofound (2025), Auchan Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 203207, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203207.
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