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DANISH GLOBAL HOME RETAIL BRAND, JYSK, TO OPEN 15 STORES IN IRELAND, WITH THE CREATION OF 200 JOBS
Today, JYSK looks to fill deputy store manager and sales assistant positions for its first four retail stores in Naas, Navan, Drogheda and Portlaoise. There are full time and part time positions available and interested applicants can apply via https://job.jysk.ie/. JYSK Group is known for its rapid expansion plans on entering a new market, and with this comes a robust employment strategy, which includes bonuses and many opportunities for career progression. JYSK will open an Irish head office in Dublin early in 2019 and will also fill approximately 10 roles in sales, marketing, human resources and finance over the next two years.
The Irish JYSK team will include Roni Tuominen, head of retail, and Jennifer Johnston, sales and marketing manager. As head of retail for JYSK in Ireland, Roni will build and create the Irish organisation. Roni’s expertise is built from nearly two decades’ experience in the retail sector in Finland, both at JYSK and retail chain, Clas Ohlson. Jennifer Johnston joins JYSK having previously spent time at eir, Snickers Workwear, and photography business, 3XM.
Commenting on the opening of JYSK in Ireland, Roni Tuominen, head of retail, said: ‘Ireland is a very important market for us, given the prominent position the retail industry holds in the country for employment and the economy. As a company, we focus on entering a new market each year, and we are excited that 2019 is the year we bring our brand to Ireland. We will open here with our latest concept stores and deliver exceptional quality products at great prices to Irish consumers.’
JYSK offers an extensive range of products for the home, from the bedroom to the garden, and at great prices. JYSK’s Scandinavian design ethic and stylish approach to interiors has made the brand known and loved across the world. The brand has also enjoyed a world-wide reputation for expertise and knowledge in sleeping culture, which continues to this day, offering everything from mattresses to frames and bases.
The first JYSK store will open in Ireland in Jigginstown, Naas, Co. Kildare in early April, 2019. Customers will be able to shop online in Ireland from Monday, 15th April 2019. For further information on JYSK, please visit www.jysk.com or join the conversation on Facebook
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JYSK is an international chain of stores with Scandinavian roots that sells everything for the home. The first store opened in Denmark in 1979, and today JYSK has over 2,700 stores and 23,000 employees in 51 countries. In Germany and Austria the stores are called Dänisches Bettenlager – in the rest of the world JYSK. JYSK is owned by the Danish tradesman Lars Larsen, who owns a number of companies with a total annual turnover of 4.02 billion EUR. JYSK's turnover is 3.577 billion EUR.
