The application comes eighteen months after Lidl’s offices in Aviatiei district were officially inaugurated. Lidl and Kaufland are part of the German Schwarz group of the Schwarz family.
Companies rarely develop their local headquarters themselves and also own them in Romania and among such examples are Lidl, BRD, and OMV Petrom.
According to the documentation submitted to secure the necessary permits, Kaufland plans to build a five-story building with a sixth receding floor and four underground levels, most likely to be used as a parking lot. The plot has an area of 8,224 square meters and is held by Kaufland, as is the current building housing its offices and a hypermarket.
“The new building will house Kaufland’s offices. We will be able to provide more details later and we’ll do the development with a partner,” Kaufland officials said.
Lidl’s offices in Aviatiei were built by Skanska, one of the largest developers of office space projects in Bucharest.
Kaufland posted 11 billion lei (EUR2.4 billion) sales and almost RON800 million profit in Romania last year.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)