Billa Romania will take its national network of supermarkets to 63 units after opening a new store this week in Galati. The German retailer hopes to add at least ten more stores to its local network this year, company representatives have previously announced.
At the end of 2011 the company was operating 61 supermarkets countrywide, six of which were opened last year. Billa is part of German Rewe Group which also runs locally the Penny and Penny XXL discount stores.
The company’s turnover amounted to RON 1.14 billion (approximately EUR 270 million) in 2011, down RON 80 million (approximately EUR 19 million) y-o-y, according to data from the Finance Ministry.
Simona Bazavan