Carrefour hypermarkets in Colentina, Brasov and Ploiesti lead in traffic

2010-03-11

Carrefour stores in Brasov, Colentina and Ploiesti are the most-visited units of the company’s chain in Romania.
The Carrefour hypermarket in Brasov registers annual traffic of 2.96 million visitors, 300,000 more than its counterpart in Colentina, Bucharest. In Colentina, Carrefour has a catchment market of 479,500 inhabitants, slightly more than in Brasov, where the figure is 447,000. In turn, Carrefour’s hypermarket in Ploiesti, where the catchment area comprises 728,000 people, registers 2.4 million visitors annually.
Carrefour is the largest hypermarket operator in Romania in terms of sales revenues, which in 2009 amounted to €1.13bn. The retailer operates 22 hypermarkets and 25 supermarkets nationwide.