“Auchan’s investments will continue at a steady pace, with network expansion and consolidation of logistics infrastructure as the main pillars. We will open two new ATAC stores (discount hypermarkets i.e.) – in Oradea and Bucharest, by yearend, generating more than 120 new jobs and will continue the expansion of the franchise network, which currently numbers more than 50 stores.”
Auchan is one of the main actors of the Romanian retail, with RON7.75 billion revenue in 2024, a 7% increase year-on-year.
The retailer has a network of almost 500 stores under various formats in Romania.
“Our growth plans also include opening new supermarkets and hypermarkets and we already have three locations signed in Bucharest and Cluj, along with the constant development of the franchised format – an essential vector of our expansion.”
Significant investment is also going towards logistics infrastructure, where Auchan has allocated more than RON30 million for automation, digitalization, capacity expansion and sustainability projects in the last few years.
The French-held group budgeted more than RON15 million for logistics infrastructure investments in 2025.
“We stepped up network expansion in the first part of 2025, so we will end the year with three new ATAC stores, a newly-opened supermarket and 50 Simply by Auchan franchised stores. In all, our network will overshoot the 500-store mark in the country, covering all formats, from hypermarket to convenience stores.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)