History
The company was established on 6 December 2003. The first store was built in Kiev on the Bratyslavska street. In 2005 two more stores were built in Kiev, one of them is one of the biggest in Europe with the area of 42,000 m2 (in 2008).
Next year the first three stores were built outside Kiev: Lviv, Poltava, and Odessa. In 2007 eight stores were built nationwide including one in Kryvyi Rih. As of 2008 there were 16 stores built with eight more in projection. On May 2009 its web-site contains link to already 22 different stores nationwide. There is a projection of at least seven more that are in construction with Kremenchuk being the second city after Kryvyi Rih which is not an Oblast seat.
On 11 December 2009 the company opened its biggest store in Ukraine, located on the Kiev Ring. With the total area of 56,000 sqm, the store is the largest of its kind in Ukraine as well as in Europe.
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