Univers'all develops Uni'all

The Univers’all supermarket network that opened its fifth store last week has decided it is time it developed another concept, the neighbourhood store, on the side. “We opened the fifth store of our network on the ground floor of the Tomis Mall shopping complex. We also bought four neighbourhood supermarkets from the company that holds the shopping complex and brought them together under the Uni’all brand,” said Razvan Petrovici, general manager of the GFS Group, owner of the Univers’all Company. He added the two store concepts complemented each other. “The Uni’all stores are an experiment we will expand to other cities in the country and Bucharest if it turns out to be successful,” GFS’ official said. Whereas the commercial area of the supermarket in Constanta is 1,600 sqm, the Uni’all stores’ ranges between 500 and 800 sqm. “Our long-term development strategy targets expansion to as many cities across the country as possible, regardless of their size or of the competitors that may be there already, at an estimated pace of three or four stores a year,” Petrovici said. Univers’all began operating on the Romanian market last year when it opened its first three stores in Sibiu (April), Suceava (October) and Targu Mures (November). ZF