

The style and variety of our collections are well received by customers in this part of Europe,” Olga Josevska, regional LPP manager for North Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, said earlier, according to statement published by East Gate Mall company.ĭeveloped by Albania’s Balfin Group, the mall, which cost more than €103mn to build, covers a space of over 160,000 sqm and has leasable area of about 57,000 sqm across five levels and 2,000 parking spaces. “We are happy to be opening the first stores in North Macedonia, which is the seventh country on the Balkan market in which we offer our fashion. Meanwhile, LPP, one of the fastest-growing fashion chains in Eastern and Central Europe, has entered North Macedonia for the first time, with its five brands, Reserved, Mohito, House, Cropp, and Sinsay. The stores include the largest Zara in the Balkans offering both Zara and Zara Home, as well as the other brands in Inditex Group’s portfolio, Оysho, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Pull and Bear and Stradivarius. Of the 600 brands on sale at its 220 stores, 40 are offered for the first time in the country. The mall will serve customers from North Macedonia, where the retail sector has bounced back from the coronacrisis, but its developers also hope good transport links will bring in shoppers from other countries in the Western Balkans.Īs incomes increase in North Macedonia and elsewhere in the EU-aspiring region, it has become more attractive for international brands - among those at East Gate Mall are the portfolios of international fashion retail groups Inditex Group and LLP - and there is strong demand for modern retail space.

East Gate Mall, the biggest mall in North Macedonia officially opened its doors to customers in the capital Skopje on October 29.
