Majid Al Futtaim has announced plans to open a new hypermarket at Galleria Shopping Mall on Langata Road in July 2018.
The hypermarket will be Carrefour’s sixth store in Nairobi as the retailer seeks to grow its presence in the country as it takes on the space that was previously occupied by Nakumatt.
“We will open the new store at Galleria at the end of next month, using a partial selling model of 1,000 square metres. This is similar to what we have successfully implemented at our Thika Road Mall and Junction Mall stores.” said Franck Moreau, Country Manager of Carrefour Kenya at Majid Al Futtaim Retail.
Moreau continued, “Our ambition is to scale up our operations from the partial selling model to a fully-fledged hypermarket of more than 5,000 square metres by mid- 2019. We will then offer the full range of over 30,000 food and non-food products to our customers living in Langata, Karen and along Magadi road.”
Majid Al Futtaim currently operates five Carrefour stores in Kenya at The Hub in Karen, Two Rivers Mall, Thika Road Mall, The Junction and Sarit Centre. The retailer is also opening its first Carrefour Market, its supermarket format, at the Village Market in December.
Majid Al Futtaim currently operates over 240 Carrefour stores across 15 markets and continues seeking opportunities to open stores in Kenya and the rest of the greater East African region.
