The new warehouse will supply products to the stores in the east of the country and those in the Republic of Moldova, a country where the group will enter in 2018. Supervision of the operations there will be done from Bucharest.
“Given the expansion to the Republic of Moldova we want to build a third logistics warehouse in Moldavia,” Kaufland officials said without providing any details about it. They did not say how big it should be nor how much investment it would require. Investment in such a facility stands at more than EUR20 million, ZF has learnt.
Moldavia used to be an area long avoided by retailers, which chose to build warehouses near Bucharest and in Transylvania. Last year, however, things started to change. Penny Market for instance, has a warehouse in Moldavia, in Bacau.
Kaufland has more than 100 stores in Romania, which it stocks with products from its two warehouses, one in Turda (NW of the country) and one in Ploiesti (near Bucharest).
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)