Costco Interested in Opening European Stores, Murphy Says
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Costco Wholesale Corp., the operator of membership warehouses for consumer goods, is looking into opening stores in continental Europe, said James P. Murphy, international executive vice president.
“We are interested in investing in the obvious four -- Germany, Italy, France and Spain,” Murphy said in an interview at a consumer goods forum in Istanbul today. The company hasn’t decided which country may be first and will probably open a store in the region “in the next couple of years,” he said.