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Competition in the Irish grocery trade is set to become a lot more intense following the disclosure by German discounter Lidl that it really is seeking for websites for more than 60 further stores on each sides of the Border.

The planned expansion is thought to be the largest by any from the principal grocery multiples and coincides with signs of a continuing recovery in customer spending within the Republic.

Lidl is currently one of many largest retailers in Ireland with 143 shops and a additional 38 in Northern Ireland. The other German discount chain Aldi has 115 retailers within the Republic but does not trade in Northern Ireland.

offers lidl has appointed CBRE’s Dublin and Belfast offices to locate key websites in cities and towns to facilitate the expansion. After opening its first store right here in 2000, it expanded swiftly and "experienced unparalleled growth all through their lifetime in Ireland," according to the company.

As part of the continued expansion strategy it says it is "looking to open additional 60-plus shops on high profile sites with excellent visibility and accessibility."
Freehold properties
The best web site will likely be two acres in size even though smaller plots of about one acre will probably be considered in high density urban locations. There's also a preference for freehold properties to accommodate stores ranging in size from 1,800 sq m to two,400 sq m (19, 375 sq ft/25,833 sq ft).

Florence Stanley, head of retail at CBRE Dublin, stated that along with mounting a countrywide look for suitable web sites, they would be contacting nearby estate agents to find the most effective enterprise places.

"It may take a although to fulfil our commitment but if we handle to line up 60 sites inside 3 years our client would probably be pleased."

While the majority of the current Lidl properties have substantial parking facilities, the business has also been able to avail of smaller, well-located web sites by putting the retailers on stilts and using the space underneath the building for parking.

A single such shop is situated around the 1.14-acre former Sunday Planet website in Terenure which not too long ago opened for business.

That site was bought by a residential development business during the house boom for €18.three million and was acquired following the crash by Lidl for greater than €4 million.
Not good news
Tara Buckley, director common of the Retail Grocery Dairy and Allied Trades Association, stated 60 discount supermarkets was not great news for Irish towns and villages.

A report by economist Jim Power had shown that a euro spent in a locally owned shop was worth 3 times greater than a single spent inside a British or German chain. At the finish in the day their profits go back to Germany or the UK.

Lidl’s share of the discount marketplace within the North has risen considerably more than the years though surprisingly the organization has not been challenged in that marketplace by Aldi. That organization lately confirmed that its planned £600 million expansion within the UK - it really is to open yet another 550 outlets - will not contain Northern Ireland.

Meanwhile, Tesco continues to be mulling over the extended delayed megastore planned for Liffey Valley Purchasing Centre in west Dublin. It has denied it's to become abandoned just like 49 other supermarket projects inside the UK.

Planning permission for the shop was granted by An Bord Plean?la in June 2016 and, based on an official spokesperson, the business is "working via planning compliance using the nearby authority and as such a commencement date for the development has not however been finalised".