Retail channels in focus: 51-200 m²

From the nearly 20,000 food stores 6,426 belong to the 51-200 m² group and most of them are part of a retail chain. The number of stores in this group increased by more than 10 percent in the last ten years. In the first ten months of 2010 this retail channel had a stable 9 percent share from the household chemical and cosmetics sales measured by Nielsen. In the December 2009-November 2010 period the channel’s share from food sales was growing and reached 18 percent.