Workforce
The number of employees at Macintosh Retail Group’s continuing operations went down from 11,822 (5,863 FTEs) in 2011 to 11,290 (5,666 FTEs) in 2012. Fashion saw a decrease in the number of employees at 16 more stores compared with 2011, with the decline at Living being realised with the same number of stores.
At Macintosh Hong Kong, the size of the workforce increased by 5 to 47. Macintosh Intragroup Services had 10 employees in 2012 (2011: 11). At Macintosh Retail Group NV, 41 (2011: 43) employees were busy coordinating the sector-wide activities, including Product House and Cross channel.

Employees Fashion
| Retail chain1 | Countries | At December 31, 2012 | Average number of FTE's 2012 |
| Brantano | B2 | 1,006 | 858 |
| Brantano | UK | 1,955 | 790 |
| Dolcis | NL | 847 | 448 |
| Invito | NL | 365 | 196 |
| Jones Bootmaker | UK | 1,857 | 623 |
| Manfield | NL | 595 | 321 |
| PRO 0031 | NL | 228 | 123 |
| Scapino | NL | 2,502 | 1,074 |
| Scapino | B | 153 | 97 |
| Steve Madden | NL + B | 40 | 38 |
| NEA | NL | 30 | 25 |
| Fashion | Total | 9,578 | 4,593 |
1. Including head office and distribution centre employees allocated to the store formats.
2. Including 5 stores in Luxembourg and 4 Firelle stores in Belgium.
Employees Living
| Retail chain | Cointries | At December 31, 2012 | Average number of FTE's 2012 |
| Kwantum | NL | 1,566 | 938 |
| Kwantum | B | 48 | 43 |
| Living | Total | 1,614 | 981 |
































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