“Bookstores in cities other than Bucharest continue to generate double-digit growth, we are focusing on the new openings. We will open our second store in the city center in Timisoara, a bookstore in the Vivo shopping center in Baia Mare, in Sibiu we will have a bookstore in Sibiu Shopping City (a partnership with Habitus) and are to open a bookstore in Craiova in September,” Serban Radu told ZF.
The first of the planned openings will be in Craiova, in the Electroputere Parc Craiova shopping center in an about 400 square meter space.
“We had bookstores whose sales were slightly up in the first half, as well as some that posted 20% to 30% higher sales. The double-digit growth continued in the cities in the rest of the country (other than Bucharest i.e.). The average book price or the average cash receipt did not increase, what increased is the number of cash receipts, we’ve either got more customers or some go to the bookstores more often.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)