Ardis has announced its plans to open a new 10,000m² hypermarket in the port city of Béjaïa, its third in the country after stores in Algiers and Oran. Ardis has applied to purchase a 10 hectare site. The company intends building a hypermarket, a warehouse, a playpark, a 230-bed hotel and a restaurant on the site. It has already announced plans to open hypermarkets in Biskra, Tizi Ouzou, Ouargla et Annaba, and said that it considers all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants to be targets for expansion.