At the beginning of November Baumax launched one new store each in Czechia and Slovakia. The new outlet in Znaim (CZ) is 6 800 m² in size and the one in Poprad (SK) is 8 210 m². The additional store in Znaim brings the company's total number of outlets in Czechia to 24, and the one in Slovakia is the country's eleventh altogether. Baumax intends to continue to optimise its store portfolios in the existing growth countries (which also include Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia), and has announced a first store for Romania in the middle of the year.