Lidl’s Romanian headquarters was previously housed in Pipera Business Tower of Austria’s S+B Gruppe in Dimitrie Pompeiu area, where it rented some 5,000 square meters of office space across six floors occupied entirely. Lidl had signed for the Pipera office space in the summer of 2010, when it rented some 2,700 square meters over three floors and expanded over the years as the number of employees increased. The new office building Lidl operates in, built by Sweden’s Skanska, has a usable area of 12,500 square meters, about 1,500 square meters per floor. The number of people working in the new space can be increased from 315 to 360.
“The new building is Lidl’s most ambitious project in Romania ever,” says Frank Wagner, Lidl Romania chief executive. The retailer chose environment friendly technologies for the new building, which use renewable energy sources, he added. The company did not reveal the value of the investment, but considering the space, the technologies and amenities, it most likely stands at at least EUR25 million, according to market data.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)