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Ronan Martin, BU expansion and shopping malls director, vicepresident, Carrefour Polska
While some hypermarket and shopping centre networks are scaling down their operations in Poland, there is one that is still vigorously expanding – both in terms of location and new formats: Carrefour. We spoke to Ronan Martin, BU expansion and shopping malls director and vice-president of Carrefour Polska, about the company’s bold approach to the challenges ahead for the retail market.
Aneta Cichla, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: In the interview you gave ‘Eurobuild CEE’ in November 2013, you said that some Carrefour-owned retail assets in Poland, namely Morena, Galeria Zdrój and those in Sochaczew, Olsztyn, Krosno, Rybnik and Grudziądz, would undergo modernisation work. Have you achieved everything you set out to do?
Ronan Martin, BU expansion and shopping malls director, vice president of Carrefour Polska: Back in 2013, we looked at our company as a whole, as well as each of our businesses separately. Our biggest investment at that time was Sonata Park in Sochaczew, where we turned the old Carrefour supermarket into a modern retail park with a new and innovative Carrefour hypermarket as the anchor. We invited to this centre several well-known tenants, such as H&M, the LPP group’s brands, Empik and Smyk. For the local market it was a significant change. The customers were delighted and they still are. This investment proved that the approach w
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