[size=75:1b65jpo1]Sofia echo Dec 14 2009

Carrefour set to launch store in Galeria Plovdiv


Europe's biggest retail chain by sales Carrefour will open a store in the Galeria Plovdiv shopping mall, now under construction, Stroitelstvo Gradut weekly reported on December 14 2009.

Earlier in December, Carrefour representatives signed the contract with Galeria Plovdiv owners, the report said. This will be the latest phase of expansion of Carrefour in Bulgaria, following the launching of their first site of operations in the Bourgas Plaza. More stores are planned to open in Sofia, Varna, Rousse, Stara Zagora, Pleven and Dobrich.

According to Diana Borlakova, marketing director of Galeria Plovdiv, Carrefour signed a lease for 10 800 sq m in the mall.

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We are in talks with another big firm, who are interested a deal here in Plovdiv as they are convinced of the good location of the shopping mall,"
Stefan Kossev, managing partner of Regent's Property Advisors, told Stroitelstvo Gradut.

Galeria Plovdiv is on the eastern outskirts of Plovdiv, with a total area built area of 127 000 sq m, of which 43 000 sq m are available for rent. Furthermore, there will be some 8000 sq m available for office space and a parking lot with a 1300 vehicle capacity.

Carrefour opened its first hypermarket at the end of March 2009 in Bulgaria's second largest Black Sea city of Bourgas. The first Carrefour hypermarket in Sofia is expected to open in February 2010 on the Tsarigradsko Chaussee Boulevard.

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Sofia echo Dec 14 2009

NordSee plans two new Sofia restaurants

German fish and seafood chain NordSee will open two new restaurants in Sofia in 2010.

The announcement was made by the NordSee's local franchisee Samex.

Bulgaria's first NordSee restaurants opened in early-October 2009 in the Mall of Sofia.

The new outlets were to open their doors in the Serdica and Carrefour Tsarigradsko shopping centres, both under construction along two of the busiest boulevards in the Bulgarian capital.

NordSee, part of International Food Retail, operates in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Samex is the local franchisee of KFC and Dunkin Donuts.

More good news I see this must be the biggest supermarket in the whole of Europe who are investing even more in Bulgaria so I think the skeptics now have their answer

[size=75:2p0ya8yb]Regal retail 25 March 2010

Sofia Carrefour

The first Carrefour in Sofia, which will open in The Mall shopping complex on Tsarigradsko Shosse, 21 April, there will be cases of self, "
said Laurent Ben David, executive director of Carrefour Bulgaria. They own customers will be able to scan and pay their purchases. The chain has a similar terminal at its sites in France and Spain.

This first chain store in Sofia will be located at 9 thousand square meters of sales space and will offer 50 thousand items. Priority categories will be gourmet, bio and dietary products, and baby products, said Ben David.

The chain opened in Burgas nearly a year before its first store in the country. Plans are for more than 12 sites in the next three years.

[size=55:3hqlksi8]novinite 13 April 2010

New CEO Appointed at Carrefour Bulgaria

Christian Charitat is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Carrefour Bulgaria, the retailer announced.

Charitat will take over from Laurent Bendavid who is promoted to work on a key project for the development of Carrefour hypermarkets concept in the Headquarter of Carrefour Group, France.

Christian Charitat has 26-year career in Carrefour Group where he was employed in the year 1984. He was born on June 26, 1961. He graduated from Commercial Techniques Saint Germain en Laye, France.

He had occupied several managing positions in stores of Carrefour in France. From 1994 till 1999 he had been Store manager and National Food Manager in Carrefour Taiwan. During the next four years he had been working in Carrefour Japan and from 2002 till 2010 he has been occupying managing positions in Carrefour Indonesia where his last position was Operational Director.

Within the week from 15 to 21 April Carrefour is going to open two new hypermarkets in Bulgaria, which are expected to create a total of 750 jobs. On 15 April Carrefour in Galeria Plovdiv will be opened, and the next one to open its doors is the chain's largest hypermarket located in The Mall - Sofia.

The Carrefour Group is the first retailer in Europe, and the second largest worldwide, with more than 15.000 stores under different banner in 32 countries and more than 490 000 employees.

[size=75:31ix6kg8]Regal retail 13 April 2010

Carrefour in Plovdiv Gallery opens its doors on April 15

On April 15, Carrefour opens Gallery in Plovdiv, the company announced. Less than a week later - on April 21 is opening the largest hypermarket chain, located in The Mall of Sofia. In both hypermarkets will be the creation of over 750 jobs.

Carrefour include a flying start in the market in Sofia and we leave the choice. Although currently the French chain has only one store in town, what happened at the opening, showed that its presence can not be ignored. However, whether it was just a lot of noise, or is the beginning of a major change has yet to understand.

In April we decided to visit the stores that fall within a relatively close radius to the new The Mall, to see if they respond to long-awaited event. Therefore, shopping and the 23 - two days after the opening of the mall.

Indeed, the change in the average account is not big at all. The amount is EUR 28.42, which is only 2% less than in March. Carrefour, however, put yogurt in 9 st and 85 st of bananas, causing immediate reaction from Kaufland. As a result, the average price of yogurt dropped 29 percent. If you followed the bananas in the basket of mystery shoppers, there would be different. This also applies to other categories, such as olive oil, which can be bought in 6 euro per liter of extra virgin frantsuzite of the site.

Furthermore Kaufland we can not say that we met any particular response in the other chains, particularly in smaller sites where time seemed to be dormant, but the mood was downright lethargic. This is probably due to the fact that we were not there at rush hour, but we believe that assessment is far depend on the number of people on the site.

Besides yogurt rice is another food that has a significantly cheaper. The price has fallen in four of the seven stores that compare with the previous month. In the other three remained unchanged and the average reduction was 23%.
[size=85:1j0ewhnb]Regal retail news 11 June 2010

Under the sign of Carrefour

Easter mine and the price of eggs have declined on average by 11%. This occurs in five of the seven stores in the other two increased. Cheaper food products are among the more flour, sugar, coffee and milk. Increased reporting in bread, cheese, sausage and margarine. In the case of margarine change is only in Billa "
, where the price was 10 degree above that in March.

Among non-food products only shower gel more expensive (5%). The price was higher in five of the seven shops and one was unchanged. The average increase would have been even greater were it not for the price in the T-Market "
, which is EUR 3.20 lower than last month. And this is because this time the store had its own product brand.

Although the average total value of purchases fell by 2 percent compared to March, five shops in the sum is greater than then. These are "
Hit"
, "
Billa"
, "
Piccadilly"
, "
Fantastico"
and Kaufland. T-Market "
report serious decrease (EUR -6.58), half of which is due to shower gel. Even without him, however, would significantly decrease, which returns the circuit under "
cheaper"
from which it came out last time.

The cheapest store Carrefour, which account for twenty our product basket is estimated at just 25 EUR This is 12% less than the average for the past eight stores. Two shops, however, by an amount less than 26 BGN and are Kaufland and T-Market "
. In Kaufland amount is only a 12 degree higher than that of Carrefour, in the T-Market "
- 68 st in Piccadilly does the purchase price is significantly above average - 33.62 BGN 18% or more.

This is brilliant its almost the same as they all do in the uk thank you again

Fifth Carrefour store in Bulgaria to open in Rousse

The French international hypermarket chain Carrefour will open its newest store in the northern Bulgarian riverside town of Rousse by the end of the year, Bulgarian media reported on September 28 2010.

This will be the chain's fifth store in Bulgaria, after stores were opened earlier this year in Sofia, Plovdiv, Bourgas and Varna.

The Rousse store will be laid on a 8 000 sq m parcel and it will offer more than 15 000 types of goods, the report said.

Carrefour is headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France, and it is the largest hypermarket chain in the world in terms of size, the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and third largest in profit after Wal-Mart and the British Tesco.

Carrefour operates mainly in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia and in the Dominican Republic, but also has shops in North Africa and other parts of Asia.

Carrefour's largest operation in Bulgaria is the hypermarket within the The Mall in Sofia which has an area of 9 000 sq m, opened by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov on April 2 2010.

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me too ..competition is good...its a far away situation here now from when i first moved over.......in Varna besides the little food shops ,of which there were many ..the only big ones was a Metro and one piccadilly

Hi varnagirl I know this may seem a strange question but do you ever see some of the stores we all know in the UK moving into Bulgaria in the future? for example Tesco, Aada etc

i was told at least 5 yrs ago ...maybe more ..that Tescos wanted to ..but could not afford the "
blood "
money ..this came from owner of piccadilly !!!
things are changing ..so who knows
i believe marks and sparks are down south and Sofia

Thank you for that it surely would be great if some of the supermarkets we all know do invest in Bulgaria I mean Tesco are huge in Hungary so I don't see why they wouldn't give Bulgaria a chance

It would be useful if the Carrefours that are opening up in Bulgaria carried the same sort of stuff that they carry in other countries. Even in Romania, the products are same old, same old apart from a few notable exceptions such as various varieties of Hellmans Mayonnaise. There was also "
bacon"
- unfortunately, that was rubbish

On a slightly off-topic note, the new "
small"
Metro that opened in Dobrich recently was a huge disappointment. Whilst the Varna branch carries an interesting selection, the Dobrich one is just like a larger version of all the smaller food shops extant all over Bulgaria. Their car park, now, is virtually empty almost all the time.