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New record for exhibitors Zooplus expects online boom
to continue
The organisers of the Italian B2B To manage this high number,
pet fair Zoomark in Bologna, the fair organising company has Online retailing for pet products products to achieve a market
scheduled to run from 10 to 12 added another hall to the layout.
has received a considerable boost share of 38 per cent in Europe by
November, have reported a new Zoomark International 2021 will
in coronavirus times. This will not 2030. This would correspond to
record for exhibitors registered to now take place in halls 25, 26, change in the coming years. At a sales volume of 18.6 bn euros.
attend. Over 430 exhibitors from 29, 30 and in the mall of the fair least, that’s what Europe’s leading Zooplus expects the entire
41 countries intend to appear at site in Bologna. online retailer for pet products, European pet market to grow at
the Italian trade show.
Zoo plus AG, predicts. an annual rate of 6 per cent to 49
The Munich-based company bn euros by 2030.
Plaˇcek Group opens 300th location expects online retailing for pet

On 31 August, the Czech-based ney. This year we have already
Plaˇek Group opened its 300th opened 50 shops and by the end Hornbach expands further
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location. The 370 m² shop is lo- of this year we will have about
cated in the Vivo! Hostivaˇr shop- 25 more. I would like to thank After the Germany-based DIY store SEK 47 mio (approx. 4.6 mio eu-
ping centre in Prague. The shop my dream team because this is chain Hornbach opened the first ros) in the location. With this new
was built according to the latest all thanks to them. They are all project stores of a new type in opening, Hornbach now operates
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Superzoo concept and also offers my heroes,” says Dušan Plaˇek,
livestock such as aquarium fish, founder and owner of the Plaˇek On 29 June, a new Hornbach project
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terrarium animals, birds and small Group. store opened in Trollhättan, Sweden.
animals. So far, Superzoo loca- Currently, the Plaˇcek Group
tions in Prague have been built operates 130 Superzoo and six
exclusively in retail parks; the new Zoomarket stores in the Czech
location is the first in a shopping Republic. In Slovakia there are
centre. It belongs to Immofinanz 62 Superzoo stores and two in
and is one of the first shopping Romania. In Poland, 52 Kakadu
centres to open in Prague. shops belong to the group. In
“This new location is a big Latvia there are 46 Dino-Zoo
milestone in our exciting jour- shops and two in Russia.

Borås and Kristianstad in Sweden a total of eight stores in Sweden.
in 2018 and 2019, a third location Hornbach has also opened
followed in Trollhättan on 29 June. its eighth store in Romania. It
On a sales area of around 9 000 is located in Cluj-Napoca, a city
m², customers have direct access with more than 330 000 inhab-
to around 25 000 articles here. itants in the northwest of the
Using mobile devices and sta- country. The new store has a
tionary terminals, 60 000 articles sales area of around 23 000 m².
can be ordered via the Hornbach For the garden and pet depart-
online shop and also delivered to ment an area of 5 200 m² has
Happy about the opening of the 300th location (from left): Sean-Jason the Trollhättan shop if required. been reserved, while the drive-in
Valta (senior leasing manager retail, Immofinanz), Dušan Plaˇcek (owner, Hornbach Byggmarknad AB has 6 900 m². Hornbach has in-
Plaˇcek Group), Veronika Bártová (CEO Superzoo, Czech Republic), Tomáš
Radosa (expansion manager, Plaˇcek Group) and Patrik Medlík (retail has been leasing the property for vested around 27 mio euros in
expert, Plaˇcek Group). twelve years and has invested the new location.

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