The stores stretch onto nearly 120 square meters and sell nearly 1,300 products.

The Carrefour-Angst partnership was launched in October 2011 and follows Carrefour’s development strategy for convenience store format. Based on this partnership, the Angst store network will be rebranded as a Carrefour Express franchise until the end of 2012.

Angst Romania Group, owned by Romanian businessman Sorin Minea, operates two cold cuts plants in Buftea and Sinaia, respectively, a milk processing plant in Videle, as well as a chain of 24 supermarkets.

French retailer Carrefour operates in Romania 25 hypermarkets, 52 supermarkets and eight Express stores.