style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Currently the largest private
employer in Satu Mare is the German automotive company Dräxlmaier Group which
owns since 1998 an electric engine components factory in the city and has
around 3,600 employees. The factory supplies automotive wiring especially to
the German car manufacturer Daimler AG but it also supplied wiring to another
car manufacturer Porsche for its Porsche Panamera model. The Swedish company Electrolux
owns a kitchen stove factory in the city acquired in 1997, that has a surface
area of 52,000 square metres (560,000 sq ft) and 1,800 employees. The facility
has an annual production capacity of around 1.2 million units and the majority
of the Zanussi brand kitchen stoves in Europe are manufactured there. The
Austrian company Voestalpine owns, since 2004, a steel tubes production facility
with an annual capacity of 50 million units per year. The German company Arcandor
has its main Romanian office established in Satu Mare. The subsidiary,
accounting for the region formed by Romania and Hungary, is the most important
amongst the 16 subsidiaries in Europe in terms of the percentage of sales
through online orders having in 2008 total orders of €19.3 million. The company
also owns a 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft) logistic facility and a call
center in the city.
Satu Mare's retail sector is
fairly well-developed; a number of international companies such as Real, Kaufland,
Billa, Metro Point and Interex have supermarkets or hypermarkets in the city.
There is also a DIY store, a Praktiker, and several small malls: Grand Mall of
6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft), Plaza Europa of 3,000 square metres (32,000
sq ft) and the largest, Someşul Mall, of 13,000 square metres (140,000 sq ft).
There is also an industrial
park called Satu Mare Industrial
