French retailer Carrefour posted sales worth almost 200 million euros in the third quarter of this year, up 36% against the same time in 2006, after its network expanded by two stores. The company's turnover stood at around 560 million euros in the first nine months of the year and registered an approximately 40% rise against the same period in 2006, according to data previously provided by the French group. Therefore, the results obtained by the French group in the January-September period on the Romanian market are almost equal to turnover reported in 2006. The increase comes after the launch of two stores in the September 2006 - September 2007 period - a hypermarket in the Tom shopping centre in Constanta and a store taken over from the former Univers'All network, located in the centre of the Capital.

At present, the Carrefour network operates 10 hypermarkets on the Romanian market, with two new stores opened last week, in Iasi and Cluj-Napoca.