Christmas jobs are on offer if you look for them. Despite the recession and all the thousands of redundancies there is, at least, some work on offer among the big retail companies. I know from my own days as a student, how glad I was to get a job delivering the extra Christmas post. The…
Matalan have announced that they are looking to fill an additional 2,300 job vacancies to help see them through their busy Christmas period. The number works out at an average of 11 recruits per store spread over their 208 stores. The positions are for shop assistants. More about Matalan jobs.
Advanced Supply Chain, the Bradford company which provides logistics services to major high street companies, has struck a deal with Chinese state-owned Sinotrans. The contract will create 40 job vacancies over the next year and is expected to boost Advanced Supply Chain’s turnover by £5m to £25m. Advanced Supply Chain is part of the Advanced…
Matalan will be opening its London Road, Crawley, Sussex, at 8 am on Thursday, 11th August. The retail company has taken over the old MFI store which has been vacant since they collapsed 3 years ago. There will be 85 job vacancies created with 75 interview slots being awarded to those on a Jobseekers’ Allowance…
Budget fashion and homeware chain, Matalan, are about to open their new Trowbridge, Wiltshire, outlet, creating 85 job vacancies. The new 2,400 square metre store on the Trowbridge Retail Park will be officially opened at 9am this coming Thursday. To boost attendance at the event, Matalan say that they will present the first 250 customers…
Matalan have announced that they will be engaging an extra 20 people in the Grimsby store which is being repaired and enlarged following last year’s fire. So far Matalan’s 50 advertised job vacancies have attracted 600 applicants – so many that the company’s management have decided to increase the number of jobs available to 70….
Matalan was founded by John Hargreaves in 1985 when he opened his first store in Preston. It specialises in retailing low-cost clothes and homeware. They now have over 200 stores across the UK. The company’s principal recipe for success (and its budget prices) is that it specialises in out-of-town locations. While companies like Marks and…
