Metro opens twentieth store

Metro Cash & Carry Romania, a member of the German Metro Group, yesterday opened a new store in Brasov – its twentieth in Romania – following a 15 million-euro investment. It is the second store to be opened by the German group in Brasov after they opened their first store in 1998. The new Metro in Brasov is located directly opposite Metro’s DIY store, Praktiker, and close to Selgros Cash & Carry. The opening of the new store comes only days after the opening of Carrefour’s first hypermarket outside Bucharest, a 20 million-euro investment, only several hundred metres away. Metro currently owns Cash & Carry stores in Bucharest and in several cities around the country. Each new store requires a 15 million euro investment and the commercial section covers an area of between 6,500 and 10,000 sqm. ZF