“We have a new store in the Lacul Tei area and plan to expand to 20 stores again by the end of next year. We’re opening specialty stores, selling only Angst, Angst Bistro and Salsi products,” said Sorin Minea, who runs a group comprising Angst Ro (meat products), Salsi (dry-cured meats) and Angst Bistro (ready meals).
“90% of the stores we will open will be in Bucharest. We’re not going to the rest of the country with stores because I can’t control them.”
Angst had more than 20 supermarket-type food stores of its own in Bucharest and around it until 2014, when it decided to sell them to retailer Mega Image, three months after exiting the Carrefour franchise.
Sorin Minea, a veterinarian by trade, got into business in the nineties, when he started a partnership with Swiss businessman Urs Angst, who had a meat processing plant in his home country. Urs Angst exited the Angst business in 2018.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)