Praktiker

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A Praktiker store in Pleven, Bulgaria
A Praktiker store in Pleven, Bulgaria

Praktiker is a German hypermarket chain offering home improvement and do-it-yourself goods. It is based in Kirkel, Saarland, and opened its first store in 1978. The chain was until November 2005 a division of METRO AG and is now a full independent corporation, noted at the MDAX.

As of 2006, the chain operates 340 stores in eight countries: Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Poland, Austria, Romania and Bulgaria.

In Bulgaria, the company operates six stores as of October 2006: two in Sofia (one of which in Lyulin) and one each in Varna, Plovdiv, Pleven and Veliko Tarnovo. Several others are in construction or planning.

In Romania, Praktiker operates 16 stores: three in the capital Bucharest, and one each in Constanta, Ploiesti, Braila, Brasov, Timisoara, Oradea, Oradea, Arad, Satu Mare, Baia Mare, Cluj Napoca, Targu Mures, Bacau and Craiova.

In Greece, Praktiker has eight stores: four in Athens and one each in Thessaloniki, Patras, Larissa and Volos.

In Turkey, there are seven stores in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Gaziantep and Konya.

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