Mercadona continues its expansion in Portugal and now has 50 supermarkets
Mercadona continues with its expansion in Portugal where it opened this Thursday its supermarket number 50 in the Portuguese countryaccording to the company in a statement.
Specifically, the new supermarket is located in the city of Guarda and creates 75 new jobs. The space has aSales area of 1,900 square meterswhere customers can find the usual sections.
The opening in Guarda is first store of the 11 that Mercadona has planned open throughout this year to continue increasing its presence in the Portuguese market.
A few months ago, Juan Roig’s company advanced its expansion plan in the Portuguese districts of Guarda and Évora. Thus, the new spaces will be located in Guarda, Oliveira de Azeméis, Coimbra (Solum and Eiras), Leiria, Évora, Vila Nova de Gaia (Canelas), Sintra (Rio de Mouro), Maia (Moreira), Seixal (Fernão Ferro) and Barreiro (Lavradio).
Mercadona landed in Portugal in 2019 with the inauguration of its first logistics center in Póvoa de Varzim (Porto) and plans to open, in the second half of this year, a new logistics center in Almeirim (Santarém), which will be the company’s largest on the Iberian Peninsula.
teaches her opened its first supermarket in Portugal in July 2019, which was located in Vila Nova de Gaia to currently have a network of 50 supermarkets in Portugal, already being present in 10 districts of the country and with more than 5,000 employees in the country.
