The company owns 35 stores in Romania, of which 14 are hypermarkets. Carrefour is market leader on Romania’s hypermarket segment and posted turnover worth €866 million in 2007, 42.2 percent higher year-on-year. Carrefour expects to exceed €1 billion in turnover by the end of this year.
Last year, the company bought Artima supermarket chain from Enterprise Investors investment fund, for €55 million.
