Debenhams confirms return to Romania. British retailer is hiring managers for future local stores

Newsroom 20/11/2014 | 17:07

British fashion retailer Debenhams has confirmed rumors that it will return to the local market after announcing it is recruiting managers for new stores in Bucharest on the Ejobs recruiting platform. The retailer is looking for a store manager and a cosmetics department sales manager for the “future stores openings”.

A Debenhams store could be opened in the Bucuresti Mall in the capital, about a year after local businessman Octavian Radu gave up on the franchise, Mediafax announced in July.

Radu, who before the crisis owned several retail franchises through Rafar, the fashion franchise division of RTC Holding, opened the first local Debenhams store in 2007 in Bucuresti Mall. Over the following years, another six outlets were opened in Plaza Romania, Baneasa Shopping City and Sun Plaza, all in Bucharest, and City Park Mall of Constanta, Polus Center in Cluj, Lotus Center in Oradea, and Shopping MallDova in Chisinau. They had a combined sales are of some 13,000 sqm.

Te businessman closed the last two of these stores last year blaming it on low purchasing power and competition from players such as Inditex’s Zara and H&M.

Debenhams is a British fashion retailer which presently operates a network of some 240 outlets in 28 countries.