The French Retail Chain Auchan is planning to treble the number of hypermarkets in Russia and make it 150. To date the company operates 44 hypermarkets – 28 under the brand name Auchan, 14 Auchan-City and 2 hypermarkets Raduga. New stores, which will be opened in the next 5 years, will occupy from 10,000 to 20,000 sq m. Apart from hypermarkets Auchan is developing a chain of 747 supermarkets in 5 countries. Hypermarkets account for 80% of the turnover (34.2 billion euros a year), supermarkets – for 16% (6.9 billion euros a year). After expanding in the Moscow Region Auchan will concentrate on opening new supermarkets in other regions – Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg.
Source: www.retail.ru