The French international hypermarket chain Carrefour will open its newest store in the northern Bulgarian riverside town of Rousse by the end of the year, Bulgarian media reported on September 28 2010.
This will be the chain’s fifth store in Bulgaria, after stores were opened earlier this year in Sofia, Plovdiv, Bourgas and Varna.
The Rousse store will be laid on a 8 000 sq m parcel and it will offer more than 15 000 types of goods, the report said.
Carrefour is headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France, and it is the largest hypermarket chain in the world in terms of size, the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and third largest in profit after Wal-Mart and the British Tesco.
Carrefour operates mainly in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia and in the Dominican Republic, but also has shops in North Africa and other parts of Asia.
Carrefour’s largest operation in Bulgaria is the hypermarket within the The Mall in Sofia which has an area of 9 000 sq m, opened by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov on April 2, 2010.
Source: propertywise
