Largest real,- hypermarket, an EUR 22.8 million investment

Retailer real,- Hypermarket Romania opens today its largest hypermarket in Eastern Bucharest. For its fourth hypermarket from Bucharest the company invested a total of EUR 22.8 million. The hypermarket covers 14,000 square meters, of which 9,713 square meters are selling area. With this new opening the value of the investments made in Bucharest reaches EUR 100 million and about 1,850 jobs on the city’s labor market.

“We will continue our medium term expansion program by opening 2-3 hypermarkets a year, thus offering new career opportunities on a national and international level. Also, we have initiated a special program this year, open to local producers. We intend to introduce as many Romanian products and traditional products as possible on the shelves, specific to the regions in which we operate”, said Michel Lamoot, the general manager of real,- Hypermarket Romania.

Last year, the sales of real,- Hypermarket Romania increased by 5.2 percent to EUR 671 million without VAT and at the end of 2009, real,- counted 8736 employees.