Auchan posted RON5.5 billion sales in 2018.
“The year 2019 was a year of good results, several projects implemented (…), the business increased at a healthy, sound, sustainable single-digit rate,” says Tiberiu Danetiu, marketing manager with Auchan Retail Romania.
Auchan is one of the largest actors in local retail by sales, after Kaufland, Carrefour and Lidl, very close to Metro Cash&Carry.
Auchan entered Romania with its hypermarkets about 15 years ago. In 2016 it also opened the first convenience stores under the My Auchan brand and later inaugurated several supermarkets.
It now has 60 stores, 33 of which hypermarkets. Plans for the future include small stores and especially stores inside OMV Petrom gas stations. The two announced last year they planned to develop the partnership throughout the entire Petrom network or about 400 gas stations.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)