Kaufland Bulgaria to open green-energy powered store in Sofia

The new hypermarket will have a commercial area of 2,500 square metres (26,910 square feet), Kaufland Bulgaria said in an emailed statement.

The planned hypermarket will bring the company’s stores to 13 in Sofia and 63 in Bulgaria.

In June, Kauland opened a hypermarket near Business Park Sofia. The company said at the time it invested nearly 40 million levs ($20.75 million/20.45 million euro) in the project, bringing its total investments in Sofia to over 300 million levs.

Kaufland entered the Bulgarian market in 2006. The company is part of Germany’s Schwarz Group, which also operates the Lidl retail chain in Bulgaria.

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)