Jumbo announced earnings results for the third quarter of 2015. The company posted a net profit of EUR 2.47 million ($2.5 million) in Romania and EUR 3.49 million ($3.7 million) in Bulgaria in the third quarter of 2015, sharply higher than a year earlier. In Romania third-quarter net profit increased four times to EUR 2.47 million from EUR 0.38 million in the third quarter of 2014.

In Bulgaria, net profit rose by an annual 18% in the period under review, to EUR 3.49 million. The net sales of the six stores which Jumbo operates in Romania stood at EUR 8.57 million in the third quarter of the year, as compared to EUR 2.67 million in the third quarter of 2014. The net sales of the eight Jumbo stores in Bulgaria in the third quarter of the year amounted to EUR 12.36 million, up from EUR 11.08 million in the year-ago period.

The group's net sales totalled EUR 152.6 million in the third quarter of 2015, up from EUR 145.5 in the same period of 2014.