The French retailer Auchan, Russia’s 3rd largest food retail operator in terms of sales volume, is planning to open 5 new hypermarkets in 2012. As per Interfax news agency, they will appear in Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Ryazan, Tyumen and Nizhniy Novgorod. The total estimated investment volume in the chain development amounts to 4.5 billion roubles.
In October 2011 Auchan opened new stores in Kazan and Ufa. By the end of 2011 the company is planning to open new hypermarkets in Novosibirsk, Samara and Chelyabinsk. As of Q3 2011 the company is running 30 Auchan hypermarkets and 14 Auchan City stores. The company is also developing a chain of supermarkets Atak, which now includes 50 stores.
Source: www.retail.ru