The Greek retailer of toys and home goods, Jumbo, is going to open a new store in Liberty Mall in Sector 5 of the Capital, which will be renamed “Jumbo Center”. With the opening approaching, the facade of the shopping center has already been modified.

The store will be located on the second floor of the mall, where reconstruction work is underway. The conversion of the space includes new partitions and the arrangement of an extended space for employees and storage. The store is scheduled to open on October 25th, with a possible grand opening on October 24th.

Romania is the biggest market for Jumbo, outside of Greece, already having 16 stores, even in smaller cities like Timișoara and Ploiesti.

Carrefour announces the completion of the integration process of the former Cora Lujerului hypermarket, in the context of the acquisition of the Cora store chain by the French retailer.

“The Lujer hypermarket is fully integrated into the Carrefour universe, marking the remodeling of the store according to our standards, as a result of the integration of Cora operations into the Carrefour universe. Lujerului is an area of strategic importance, with demographic density, and we are pleased to strengthen our presence in the western area of the city,” says Crinu Aldea, Cora Integration Project Director, Carrefour Romania.

Following the integration, the hypermarket network of Carrefour Romania reaches 58 units at the national level. Located within the Supernova shopping center, the Lujerului hypermarket has a sales area of 7,656 square meters.

The American giant of cosmetics, perfumes and jewelry Avon International, opens a new franchise store in Romania, in the Park Lake shopping center, in the capital, after last month it opened such a store in Shopping City Ploiești.

In August, Avon opened its first franchise stores in the local market. The first brand store in Romania, which operates in a franchise system, was opened in the AFI Cotroceni shopping center, being of the island type.

Avon has been present on the Romanian market for 25 years and competes on the local market with the French manufacturer L’Oreal, the German company Beiersdorf, which also owns the Nivea brand, and Farmec Cluj-Napoca, the largest cosmetics manufacturer with Romanian capital.

Source: Profit.ro

Popeyes continues its expansion in the country, opening the first restaurant in Brașov, which is the fifth city in Romania where Popeyes expands its presence, outside the capital.

The new restaurant was located in the food court area of the AFI Brașov shopping center. The expansion of Popeyes is part of a more ambitious plan of the company to expand in more cities in Romania.

“The opening of the fifth Popeyes restaurant outside Bucharest is part of an extensive development plan for the year 2024 in Romania, so we are focusing all our efforts on our new restaurant in Brașov,” said Jakub Aleksandrowicz, Popeyes Marketing Director Central and Eastern Europe.

Popeyes launched in Romania in 2022, with six restaurants in Bucharest. This year they took the second big step, namely the expansion outside the Capital, in Pitesti, Craiova, Buzău, Ploiești, now it’s Brașov’s turn.