“2020 is one more year we did better than we set out to, that is opening 15 stores, and inaugurated 33 in January-December,” the officials of the company say.
Lidl arrived in Romania a decade ago when it bought the 107 Plus Discount stores and then expanded from scratch. It has been opening ten to more than 30 stores every year since. The 2020 pace is the fastest since its first year in Romania, 2011.
Lidl officials said early this year the investment budget would be 1 billion lei. The group will continue development in Romania.
It posted almost RON10 billion sales in 2019.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)