“(…) Since early 2023 until April 2024 we opened 12 new bookstores, which brought us an 8% turnover increase in the first quarter of this year vs the first quarter of 2023,” the company’s officials told ZF.
However, the chain’s expansion comes on a book market where Romania lags in the EU. Moreover, books’ rising prices in recent years have not encourages book consumption.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)