OREANDA-NEWS. December 21, 2011. Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine continues to invest in the national economy, opening the 27th big METRO store in Zhytomyr.

On the eve of the New Year METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine makes a real gift to the customers of Zhytomyr, opening the store in their city. The company has invested approx. 15 million euro to the new project, creating over 170 new stable and well paid jobs for Zhytomyr residents. The newly opened store is located at Vatutina str., 55-V, one of the biggest transport veins of the city that connects Kyiv with Western Ukraine, with the plot area of 2.8 hectares.

On 5,400 square meters of trade floor the new METRO store offers its professional customers a wide assortment of about 30 000 food and nonfood products. The total size of the store is 7600 square meters. On the eve of Christmas holidays it will work 24\7.

Though METRO store Zhytomir customers will not only get access to over 2000 unique METRO own brand products, exciting promotions, price guarantee and convenient additional services such as delivery, but will benefit from a number of turn-key business solutions. The customers can join the free TS&P (Traders Support & Partnership) program. Within its frames they will get consultations on their business development as well as discounts on trade equipment and wholesale purchases. They will be able to discover the Rioba solution, offering everything from coffee to crockery and equipment for the coffee bar or cafй.

"METRO Cash & Carry is a confident contributor to the social and economic development of the regions of Ukraine. Opening new stores in Ukrainian cities we do not only satisfy the needs of our customers and support their business, but conduct an open and constructive dialogue with the local authorities, cooperate with the regional suppliers and create new jobs. All this in the end provides an incentive for the development of small and medium enterprises in the region", - Jacquot Boelen, Managing Director of METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine, comments.

Over 90% of the assortment in METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine is sourced from Ukrainian producers, distributors and importers. Besides the products of the local suppliers (like JSC Dairy of Zhytomyr, TH Lehka Hoda, LLC Svirol and others) with which the company is cooperating now, other producers from Zhytomir may benefit from an opportunity to get access to the entire Ukrainian market via the nationwide METRO Cash & Carry chain.

Next year METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine is going to continue the expansion to be in line with the strategic plan of METRO GROUP.
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Within eight years of operations in Ukraine METRO Cash & Carry opened 27 classical wholesale stores: four in Kyiv, two in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kharkiv and Lviv one in Luhansk, Kryvyi Rih, Poltava, Vinnytsya, Zaporizhya, Chernivtsi, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Makiyivka, Simferopol, Mariupol  and Zhytomyr and 4 METRO Baza stores: in Kremenchug, Kirovograd, Ternopil and Lutsk. Having invested into the Ukrainian economy about Ђ 500 million, METRO Cash & Carry created 7 200 new jobs for Ukrainians.