Interview - Albania Comes Into Focus in SEE Retail Market Shake-up

ZAGREB (Croatia), March 14 (SeeNews) - Albania is emerging as the next focal point for expansion-minded retailers in Southeast Europe where a couple of merger and acquisition deals indicate a reshuffle has begun, a senior market researcher says. C[pounds sterling]Albania will be the next battleground. This is a market of three million people but more importantly it has very favorable demographics, being a rare example of a European country with a positive population growth forecast,C[yen] Nikola Kosutic, research manager at market intelligence firm Euromonitor International, told SeeNews in an emailed interview.