
Europe's biggest retail chain by sales Carrefour open a store in the Galeria Plovdiv shopping mall.
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 8000 sq m in the mall.
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 open in April 2010 on the Tsarigradsko Chaussee Boulevard
