In March a total of eleven new Fressnapf stores commenced trading. The first two opened in Györ and Kecskemet in Hungary at the start of March. In mid-March, eight new German outlets opened, in Rüsselsheim, Burgdorf, Uelzen, Dortmund, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Dresden and Oranienburg. Two further stores followed in Grevenmacher (Luxembourg) and Odense (Denmark).