Hyper Rimi Shopping Mall, Biggest in Northern Europe, Opens in Vilnius

New Hyper Rimi shopping mall was opened in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It is the largest hyper-market in Northern Europe The shopping mall occupies an area of 19,000 m2, with 9,500 m2 allocated for shopping. It will employ 350 people and expects 7,000 customers per day. The mall will offer about 40,000 different products including food products, household items, clothes, etc. Like other Rimi trade centres in Lithuania, Hyper Rimi is owned by the Norwegian company Hakonlita, which has so far invested about USD 40 million in the Rimi network in Lithuania. Hyper Rimi shiping mall is one of the most modern in the Baltics. Beside other novelties, it has state-of-the art ventilation and cooling equipment, which does not use freon and is environment friendly. Hyper Rimi is also one of the biggest infrastructure investment projects in Vilnius. USD 2.4 million were spend for new underground utilities and reconstruction of the streets surrounding the shopping mall.