♦ The transaction was completed only in January 2025, after receiving the Competition Council agreement.
Agăş commune, from Bacău county, a locality of only 5,000 inhabitants, houses about ten food stores and mixed shops, of which one under the «big» brand, namely Profi, who opened a unit on the Loco format, formed for the rural environment. In fact, Profi is the only actor in the modern local trade that has bet strongly on the Romanian rural area, where he still lives about half of the country's population, this being the largest share in Europe. Therefore, while the rest of the supermarkets and hypermarket networks, of discount and modern proximity stores have focused their attention on urban (small or large), Profi also went to rural, where for a long time it was given only among the small traders, between traditional stores.
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