E.Leclerc opening supermarket in Slovenia

The French retailer, will open its second outlet in Slovenia in Maribor on 7 November in an investment worth €26 million.The shopping centre will create 200 new jobs and is expected
to attract two million shoppers and turn over €50 million  a
year, its owner, Alain Gomez, told reporters in Maribor. The centre will spread
over an indoor area of nearly 20,000 square meters, the supermarket covering a
quarter of this, while the remaining area will accommodate 31 shops. The car
park will have the capacity for 1,000 vehicles. The supermarket will offer
70,000 goods, one fifth of them French-made, while all major Slovenian brand
names will also be available. Shoppers are expected to come from as far as
Croatia, Austria and Hungary.

Higonet explained that the E.Leclerc group numbered 574
shopping centers, 67 of them outside France. The centers in France generated
more than €29 billion  in sales last year, followed by those in
Poland €389 million.