“Let’s see what happens on the market. We don’t know how many stores we’ll open over the next few years but know we plan to open our first national hypermarket in Vrancea, which means we intend to build a retail area of about 4,000 square meters,” Lilieana Zanfir said.
The Zanfir store chain consists of eight supermarkets, a cash & carry store and a fresh product store. The cash & carry type store will only serve companies and operate as a logistics center for the Zanfir chain stores.
Retail generates about 85% of the group’s revenue, while the rest comes from a center that makes ready meals and a meat products plant.
“Our revenue reached RON63.6 million in the first six months, with both like-for-like and expansion-generated growth.”
Zanfir’s supermarkets are located in Focsani (Vrancea County) and in surrounding cities, such as Adjud, Panciu, Darmanesti and Targu Ocna.
“We, too, have been courted by foreign chains. They even proposed a sum but we decided to stay in business because ours is a sound business, which is still growing and has development potential and valuable people.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)