The new unit covers nearly 690 square meters and created 24 jobs.

Carrefour has 191 stores in Romania, of which 29 hypermarkets, 109 Market supermarkets, 43 Express convenience stores, ten Contact convenience stores and one online store.

Worldwide, the retailer has more than 10,000 stores in 34 countries.

End-2015, Carrefour paid nearly EUR100 million to acquire Billa operations in Romania, namely, a network of 86 supermarkets with sales of over EUR300 million in 2014.