LIDL giant, fighting with Aldi for the leading position on the European discounter stores market, announced it started construction works on its first stores in Romania. With 25 plots of land readied as construction sites, the Germans will reach all regions. The retailer has 25 plots of land prepared for the first LIDL stores, according to the local authorities, besides the 100 Plus stores it took over early this year from Tengelmann group. The German group has so far added over 70m euros to the share capital of its Romanian subsidiary, LIDL Romania, and most cities where it got urban planning certificates or construction permits have less than 100,000 inhabitants. "We can confirm we started building the first stores and the logistic centre on the Romanian market. We haven't set the date for the first openings, but we can say they will not happen in 2010," stated LIDL Romania representatives. The network will most likely be launched domestically next year. The completion of the central warehouse of Chiajna (near Bucharest), set to supply LIDL stores, and of the 25 projects is likely to entail investments worth above 50m euros.

LIDL giant, fighting with Aldi for the leading position on the European discounter stores market, announced it started construction works on its first stores in Romania. With 25 plots of land readied as construction sites, the Germans will reach all regions. The retailer has 25 plots of land prepared for the first LIDL stores, according to the local authorities, besides the 100 Plus stores it took over early this year from Tengelmann group. The German group has so far added over 70m euros to the share capital of its Romanian subsidiary, LIDL Romania, and most cities where it got urban planning certificates or construction permits have less than 100,000 inhabitants. "We can confirm we started building the first stores and the logistic