Launch in Albania

The Praktiker Group will be opening the first DIY store in Albania, an outlet of around 8 700 m², in the country’s capital Tirana on 30 October 2009. As the company says, it is entering this sector as a pioneer: there is not one single comparable trading format, whether nationally or internationally owned, in the entire country. The branch in Tirana is Praktiker’s 103rd international outlet. Moreover, this emerging country of 3.2 mio on the southern Adriatic is the ninth foreign market in the Praktiker Group’s international portfolio.