Retailer C&A will open a 1,800 sqm, two-floored store in Iris Auchan Shopping Center in Bucharest this fall, according to the shopping center administrators, Oasis Shopping Center Services.

“The shopping center is currently under revamping both in terms of design, and in terms of the tenants mix. C&A is just one of the major brands to add to the mix, with new fashion and lifestyle brands coming up in the next months,” said Brigitte Schmitt, partner with Oasis Shopping Center Services.

Oasis Shopping Center Services manages a portfolio of 75,000 sqm of retail projects in Reghin, Tecuci, Fagaras, Botosani, Sibiu, Roman, Adjud, Tarnaveni, Lugoj and Hunedoara. The company is owned by Klaus Reisenauer, Kurt Wagner and Brigitte Schmitt.

C&A is the abbreviation of the two founders of the brand’s names, Clemens & August Brenninkmeyer, the two brothers who founded the company in 1841. Today, C&A has 1,400 stores in 19 countries. The chain entered the Romanian market in 2009 and runs eight stores, according to its website.

Iris Shopping Center was developed by real estate company Avrig 35 and sold to DEGI in 2008.

Corina Saceanu, corina@romania-insider.com

(photo source: C&A)