OREANDA-NEWS. November 11, 2010. The foundation stone for the new hypermarket "Lenta" has been laid in Volzhsky town of Volgograd region. Its opening is planned for 3rd quarter of the year 2011. Investments in the construction will make more than 650 million roubles

The trade store will be located at the address: Lenina st., 311, and will meet the high standards applied to the construction and work of the network’s shops in the other cities of Russia. The total square of the hypermarket will make about 12000 sq.m., of which trading facilities will occupy about 8000 sq.m. Parking place for 650 cars has been designed for customers.

As they say in Lenta company’s press-service, "the place for the shop’s construction, in view of its potential attendance, has been chosen perfectly–convenient traffic interchange allows customers to reach the shop from almost any district of the town, moreover, construction of store housing estate is planned close to "Lenta" hereafter.

"Volzhsky belongs to those towns which typically have quite low level of retail trade development, however, the potential of this city is rather high. Having successful work experience in the cities with the similar number of population and retail trade turnover (Petrozavodsk, Saratov), we are sure of the good prospects of our store in Volzhsky" - Oleg Buyalskiy, operating director of the company, has noted.

"Lenta" will become the first of hypermarket format in the town, where over 15000 high quality food and nonfood articles will be sold at low prices. The trade store will be serving customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Many articles of food (meat, fish, bakery products, delicatessen, dairy products) will be provided by local good suppliers.

Thanks to opening of Lenta hypermarket, more than 300 people living in Volzhsky will get jobs and receive good wages and social security.

Afanasyeva Marina Robertovna, Head of Volzhsky town, and members of Lenta company’s Board have taken part in the event.

Since 2007, one of the network’s hypermarkets works in the neighboring Volgograd. The share of "Lenta" in the market of retail trade of Volgograd amounts to 11 %. About 50 000 residents are holders of the network’s permanent customer’s cards. During the period of its work "Lenta" has promoted the development of local manufacturers: 40 enterprises of Volgograd region supply their products not only to the shelves of the hypermarket in Volgograd, but also to the nearest regions (Astrakhan, Krasnodar).