The fourth store should open in the Pallady area in the east of Bucharest some time in the coming months.
“The three stores we have – in Bragadiru (SW), Colosseum (north) and Sun Plaza (South) cover about 30% of the consumers in Bucharest. I think we can reach ten stores in Bucharest one day, because there is a lot of construction work going on,” says Frederic Lamy, Leroy Merlin Romania CEO.
The retailer posted double-digit growth in sales to half a billion euros in 2019. Leroy Merlin numbers 2,400 employees in Romania at the moment and expects the headcount to rise to 5,000 or 6,000 over the coming years, as a result of the planned expansion. It has 17 stores in the country at the moment.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)