51-200m²

Almost one third of the nearly 20,000 general food stores belong to the 51-200m² channel: according to the last Nielsen census there are 6,355 of them and the majority of them forms part of one of the domestically-owned chains. In the March 2011-February 2012 period these units realised 8 percent of household chemical and cosmetics sales measured by Nielsen. In the food category they were responsible for 18 percent of sales in February 2011-January 2012.