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NOVUS INVESTS UAH 161 MLN IN OPENING OF LARGEST STORE OF CHAIN

Novus Ukraine LLC (Kyiv), the managing company of the Novus hypermarket and supermarket chain and Novus Express proximity stores chain in Ukraine, on September 21 officially opened the largest supermarket of the chain in the Sky Mall.
“We entered this facility at the beginning of summer, that is, construction took about three and a half months. Investments totaled UAH 161 million. This is the largest outlet in the network, which contains the largest production facilities, the widest range of shelves and the largest online shop that will service two large areas – Troyeschyna and Obolon,” Director General of Novus Ukraine LLC Mark Petkevich said at a press conference on the grand opening of the store on Saturday.
The store became the 28th Novus store in Kyiv and the 36th in Kyiv region. The supermarket’s range of goods includes 50,000 items of goods, including 5,000 items of own import. The total area of the facility is 12,000 square meters, of which 6,300 were used for retail space. The remaining areas are reserved for storage, production facilities, an online store, administrative premises, recreation areas for staff.
As Petkevich said, products from the Novus store are delivered through a partner – Zakaz.ua. The launch is expected a week after all processes are established in the new store.
“This is the fourth Internet point, after the opening of the fifth point next year in the Varshavsky microdistrict, we will be able to serve the entire Kyiv city and the region,” the company’s director general said.
Novus Ukraine LLC was established in 2008, in the same year the first Novus supermarket in the country was opened. The development of the Novus supermarket chain is carried out by BT Invest (Lithuania).

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