Billa Bulgaria opens first of 12 stores planned for 2024

The retailer invested 2 million levs ($1.1 million/1 million euro) in the Haskovo site, located in the newly built Retail Park Haskovo, it said in a press release.

Last week, the company said it has started installing a specialised water use monitoring system at its sites, which is set to reduce water consumption by 15% annually.

The Austria-based retailer entered the Bulgarian market in 2000 and operates nearly 160 stores in 50 towns and cities across the country.

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)