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Walmart Chile retailer – which operates, among others, brands Lider, Ekono, aCuenta and Central Mayorista – yesterday announced the expansion of its portfolio in the country.
The company is accelerating its investment plans and is looking to open 50 new premises in the country until 2019, which will generate about four thousand jobs. Thus, the plans of Walmart Chile consider an investment of 750 million US dollars.
The above adds to the investment of the El Pen distribution center in San Bernardo, which reaches 180 million US dollars. This unit, which is the largest single business investment in Latin America, is expected to go into business next year.
Walmart inaugurated yesterday a new central wholesale office in La Pintana, an event attended by the Minister of Development. Social, Alfredo Moreno.
The Wholesale Trade Center aims to supply merchants, merchants and the hotel and restaurant segment (hotels, restaurants and cafés). Walmart closes this year with eight stores of this type and expects to have 20 in three years.
With this opening, the company created 71 new jobs for the inhabitants of La Pintana and southern municipalities. Vice President of Operations Walmart Chile Manuel Lpez said that "today we want to reaffirm our commitment to Chile, announcing the creation of more than four thousand jobs that directly benefit many people who are looking for an employment opportunity. "
The company has a plan since 2012 that aims to promote inclusion in its work teams.An example of this has been the incorporation of about 1,600 older people into the workforce. Company, which work in about 90 different functions.Lpez said that "we are convinced that the various teams are more creative and allow us to understand and better serve our customers."
Regarding this matter Minister Moreno badured that "the elderly in Chile are living a new reality. We are going at an impressive speed to be a country that will have its largest proportion of seniors, and they are different from the ones we used to not waste their talent, their experience and their energy, which will be very good for the country.
The company also pointed out that after the announcement, one in 140 people working in Chile at Walmart .Also, they claim that every year they incorporate, on average, 1,500 workers
WALMART IS INCLUDED IN 2012 AT 1,600 ADULTS YOUNGER OF COMPAA.
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