The six stores are in Suceava, Focsani, Braila, Drobeta Turnu Severin, Calarasi and Constanta.

The company is not shutting down the stores throughout the remodeling and has so far remodeled eight units from the 15 it bought from France’s Group Bresson in 2013.

Kingfisher has 1,134 stores in nine countries in Europe and Asia under the retail brands B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix.

The company had sales of GBP68 million (EUR84.3 million) in Romania in the first nine months of the 2014/2015 financial year (February-October 2014) and posted a loss of GBP9 million (EUR11.16 million).