“Auchan” is closing its hypermarket: what will happen to the employees, and why is the store shutting down?
21 May 21:54
The Auchan store in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, located at 4 Velyka Kiltseva Street, is closing due to the expiration of its 16-year lease agreement.
This was reported by the Retailers Association of Ukraine (RAU), according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
According to the association, the lease agreement had been extended four times, but further extension was not possible due to the failure to reach mutually acceptable terms of cooperation.
Auchan Ukraine has assured that all employee jobs will be preserved. Employees were given the opportunity to choose jobs at other stores in the chain.
Currently, Auchan Ukraine has 28 operating stores, including 15 hypermarkets, 3 supermarkets, and 10 Ultra Proxy stores.
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Marta Trush, CEO of Auchan Ukraine, told RAU in March 2026 that in 2025, the company experienced 4,000 hours of downtime due to air raid alerts.
The closure of the Auchan store is part of broader changes in the retail market in Ukraine.
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What is known about “Auchan Ukraine”
“Auchan Ukraine” is the Ukrainian division of the French retail chain Auchan, one of Europe’s largest retail companies. The chain was founded in France in 1961.
The company has been operating in Ukraine since 2008. The first hypermarket was opened in Kyiv. Today, the chain is represented in several major cities, including Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Odesa, and Zhytomyr.
“Auchan Ukraine” operates several retail formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets, Pick Up Point neighborhood stores, and an online store with nationwide delivery.
According to Forbes Ukraine, the company’s revenue in Ukraine exceeded 10 billion UAH in 2024. The chain employs over 3,000 people.
In 2017, Auchan Retail Ukraine acquired the “Karavan” shopping center chain, expanding its presence in the Ukrainian market.
Auchan’s parent company is part of the French family-owned Mulliez Group, which also owns the Leroy Merlin and Decathlon brands.
Following the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the company has repeatedly faced public criticism for continuing to operate the Auchan chain in Russia. In 2023, the company came under scrutiny following journalistic investigations into the activities of its Russian division.
As a reminder, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed Silpo-Food LLC to acquirecontrol over the real estate and equipment of the Eurotek group of companies. In total, the committee reviewed five applications from Silpo-Food and granted the corresponding approvals. Eurotek unites the Arsen, Fresh, Soyuz, and Kvartal supermarket chains, which had previously announced the closure of their stores in Ukraine.
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