The company has previosuly said it will open ten new units in 2017 financial year (between March 1, 2017 and February 28, 2018), keeping its expansion rate over the last years.
Lidl officially entered the Romanian market in 2011 when it bought discount store chain Plus, which had 107 stores and about EUR380 million revenue.
Lidl is one of Europe’s largest store chains, operating in 27 European countries and having over 140 logistics centers supplying to over 10,000 stores.
The discount store chain has over 200 units in Romania and reported a turnover of EUR1.1 billion in 2015.