The Varus chain has opened its fourth store in Odesa (91 Dacha Kovalevskoho Street), the retailer’s press service reports.
The new supermarket has the Varus Home format and was developed for the chain by YUDIN Design studio. The total area of the store is 1050 square meters, of which 622.31 square meters is the sales area, and in addition to standard cash desks, there will be self-service cash desks.
“The Varus Home format is an opportunity for our customers to buy their favorite products in a home atmosphere. The stylish design emphasizes the vector for continuous development and improvement, and it is also designed to make the time spent in the store even more enjoyable,” Anna Luganskaya, Varus Marketing Director, was quoted in the release.
She noted that more and more renovated supermarkets, in addition to a wide range of goods, offer products of their own production. The culinary department offers dozens of meat, vegetarian, diet and seasonal dishes. For lovers of pastries and hot pizza, Varus Cafe offers pizza and bread of its own production. The supermarket also has coffee machines that allow customers to make their own coffee.
Varus is a national supermarket chain represented on the Ukrainian grocery retail market by Omega. Omega’s authorized capital is UAH 111 million 129 thousand, owned by Weigant Enterprises Limited (Cyprus), with Valeriy Kiptyk and Ruslan Shostak as ultimate beneficiaries. In 2023, Omega’s revenue amounted to UAH 17.51 billion, which is 20% higher than in 2022, and net profit amounted to UAH 200 million, which is 69.5% higher than in 2022.
The first store of the chain was opened in 2003 in Dnipro, and the total number of its stores is 109 in different cities of Ukraine and a DarkStore in Kyiv.
The chain operates in several formats: classic supermarkets, To Go stores and the varus.ua conscious shopping service.
