The new store will have a floor area of 23,000 square meters, on a 5.4-hectare plot, and more than 500 parking spots. The store will also have a Drive-In department, with an area of 5,900 square meters, stocked with building materials for homes and other projects: insulating materials, plasterboard, cement, mortars, adhesives, metallic or ceramic tiles and more.
Hornbach Oradea will also include a pet and aquarium supplies department on a 450 square meter area. It will sell cat and dog food and aquarium and fish supplies.
The retailer posted 875 million lei sales in Romania in 2019, an increase of 13% on the previous year according to Finance Ministry data. It almost doubled profit to RON29.5 million.
Its competition in Oradea will be Leroy Merlin, Dedeman, Arabesque and Brico Depot.
Hornbach has six stores in Romania at the moment – three in Bucharest (Berceni, Militari and Balotesti), and one in Timisoara, Sibiu and Brasov each.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)