Auchan is going to set up more hypermarkets in Yekaterinburg, Oleg Zemtsov, the spokesperson for Deputy Mayor Viktor Konteev, said to UrBC referring to a statement made by Auchan’s Development Executive in the Urals Ernest Elizarov.

The French company is planning to introduce four more Auchan hypermarkets in Yekaterinburg within the next three years. One store is to be located next to the Central Stadium downtown, another one will be situated in one of the shopping centers in Kosmonavtov Ave., and more stores will appear in the northern and eastern parts of the city. In addition, an Auchan store will eventually be introduced in Nizhniy Tagil.

Auchan currently runs twenty-one stores in Russia altogether.