German retailer Lidl plans to test launch an international service centre in Slovenia's second largest city, Maribor, later this year.
The centre will provide administrative support to all purchasing departments in the group. In view of expansion activities at the international level in the next two years, it would create about 100 jobs.
Speaking to local news agency Sta, the purchasing director of Lidl Slovenia, Andrej Vouk, said that the fact that the retailer decided to open a service centre in the country represents an 'unprecedented acknowledgment'. Despite its small size, he added, the Slovenian unit represents an important part of the group, due to its reliability and success in various projects in which it participated.
The key tasks of the service centre will be the management and entry of data on products and suppliers in a central system for the entire group.
The first new employees will be hired in the coming months and the team will be strengthened over the course of 2017.
Lidl has been present on the Slovenian market since 2007 and has 49 stores locally.
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