Asda, the UK’s second biggest supermarket has released plans to create around 5,000 jobs in 2012 as part of a£500 million expansion. This will include new outlets in Harworth, Nottinghamshire, and Shepshed, Leicestershire. The jobs that Asda will create are on top of the 30,000 staff it took on last year when it opened about a dozen stores and absorbed 147 Netto sites and their staff following its acquisition of the discount chain.
Prime Minister David Cameron, has welcomed the plans. 25 stores will be opened, 43 existing outlets with be refurbished and there are plans to invest in three new depots in 2012.