Piotr i Paweł was a

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and

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stores. The retail chain was founded in 1990 by Eleonora Woś and her two sons, Piotr and Paweł Woś. As of October 24, 2016, the supermarket chain had 138 stores in

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. Since 2003, the company additionally operates an

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store, available across all of Poland.

History

In 1990, the brothers Piotr and Paweł Woś opened their first

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by Głogowska Street in

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

. The name for the retail chain Piotr i Paweł reflects the first names of the two founders, as well as being the names of the two patron saints of Poznań: St. Peter and

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. Their second store was opened in Stare Zegrze, an eastern borough located in Poznań. The store had of floor space. The popularity of the store came about due to its supply of imported goods from

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. The late 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century saw the continued expansion of the company. As of 2011, the company planned to expand its retail chain via 10 new stores annually. Between 2011 and 2016, 57 new stores were opened. In 2016, the company received the award of the Market of the Year for the "best quality of fresh produce". The company opened 11 stores across

in 2016. All shops were scheduled to rebrand as SPAR at the end of 2020. The first store to change is in Blue City, Warsaw.

Structure

The Piotr i Paweł

holds three logistics and distribution warehouses in: *

Koninko Koninko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kórnik, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Kórnik and south-east of the regional capital Poznań Po ...

Gądki Gądki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kórnik, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Kórnik and south-east of the regional capital Poznań Pozn ...

* Stare Gnatowice

References

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