X5 Retail Group announces the launch of the first three stores “Pyaterochka” in the Volgograd region. By the end of 2014, the retailer plans to launch ten more “Pyatorochka” in Volgograd.
X5 Retail Group launched a distribution center with an area of 30,200 sq. m in the Rostov region. It will cover stores in Volgograd, Rostov and Saratov regions, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions. As of 30 June 2014, the network “Pyaterochka” numbered 4,128 supermarkets.
Finnish Corporation SOK opened the 18th store Prisma in St. Petersburg. Sales area of the new supermarket is more than 2,000 sq. m. The investments in the project totaled € 5,000,000. In October, the company is going to open one more hypermarket in St. Petersburg.
French retailer Leroy Merlin, specializing in the sale of goods for the construction and repair, launched its second hypermarket in Novosibirsk. In the spring 2014 Vincent Jeanty, CEO of the network in Russia, said that over the next three years the company would increase the number of stores in Russia almost in three times – from 28 to 80.