WinMarkt to invest $4.5m

WinMarkt is planning to invest more than $4.5 million this year in taking over new commercial centres and modernising the company’s chain of stores, said chief financial officer Anca Barbulescu. “We aim to take over two commercial centres this summer, one in RA„smnicu VA„slcea and the other in Bistrita, but we will also deal with the renovation of other stores across the country, which have been part of our network since last year,” Barbulescu maintained. The company invested almost $2 million in 2002. WinMarkt has come to own 12 stores in 10 cities – Ploiesti (three stores), Galati, Braila, Cluj-Napoca, Slatina, Piatra Neamt, Sinaia, Buzau, Tulcea and Alexandria. ZF