Mercator to invest 3 million euró in Bulgaria

The company’s first Bulgarian outlet will be located at the Galeria shopping mall in Stara Zagora in the south of the country.

 Mercator has announced plans to open
its first hypermarket in Bulgaria in the third quarter this year. The
store is expected to have sales area of just under 3,000 square
metres. Mercator said that it plans to invest around EUR3 million in
Bulgaria this year, with plans over the medium term to open stores in
nearly all of Bulgaria’s major cities. According to unconfirmed
reports, Mercator may be planning to open an outlet in the Galeria
shopping mall currently being built in Burgas and is also planning to
open its first outlet in the capital, Sofia.