The two departments are led by Mihai Tomescu, as Director of Hypermarket Expansion, and by Bogdan Jigman, as Director of Property & Expansion for the Market, Express and Supeco store formats, as well as the head office and warehouses.
Alongside their teams, Tomescu and Jigman manage the implementation of the expansion strategy, respectively the company’s real estate portfolio, and is directly coordinated by Julien Munch, CEO of Carrefour Romania.
Between 2015 and May 2021, Jigman had been CEO of GTC Romania, one of the largest office space owners on the local market. Jigman left GTC a year after investment fund Optimum Ventures Private Equity, held by Optima, had acquired over 60% of the shares of real estate developer Globe Trade Centre. Jigman was replaced as CEO by Ziv Gigi who currently is responsible with all GTC operations on the Romanian market.
Tomescu has been working for Carrefour for 11 years, between 2011 and 2021, starting out as a Development Manager. Since June 2021, Tomescu has held the position of Director of Hypermarket Expansion.
At end-2021, Carrefour reached 365 stores, of which 43 hypermarkets, 188 supermarkets, 108 convenience stores under the Express format, and 26 Supeco stores, having an extended national footprint.
Carrefour Romania currently has more than 17,000 employees working within more than 360 multi-format stores – hypermarket, supermarket, discounter, proximity – as well as online and at its warehouses and head office.