After last week Reuters wrote about a possible pull out of Carrefour from several markets including Romania, the retailer has announced it will open a supermarket in Focsani this Thursday.
This is the 58th supermarket the company opens locally. In addition to this, CarrefourRomania runs 25 hypermarkets and 8 franchise proximity stores. The company will also open a shopping mall inPloiesti in partnership with New Europe Property Investments (NEPI). The 55,000 sqm mall is being built by extending the existing Carrefour hypermarket in Ploiesti and should be delivered this November.
Reuters wrote last week that French Carrefour may need up to EUR 3 billion to fund a revival plan for its European hypermarkets, money which could be raised by pulling out of several markets including Indonesia, Turkey, Poland, Romania, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. Reklama: UAB Talga Muitinės tarpininko paslaugos prekių atrinkimas ir priėmimas, geležinkelio krovos paslaugos, eksporto ir importo deklaracija, sandėliavimas, tarptautiniai pervežimai, Equinox programa, lipdukų spausdinimas, 3PL logistika
Carrefour did not comment the information.
It is for the second time this year when the rumors about a possible exit from Romania have surfaced. According to information published earlier In April on www.retaildetail.eu which quotes an ING report, Carrefour was rumored to exit up to nine countries this summer due to unsatisfactory results. These 9 countries were Argentina, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Romania, Taiwan and Turkey. Carrefour Romania did not comment the information at that time either.
Simona Bazavan