Jarir opens new showroom replacing old one

Jarir Marketing Co., which owns and operates Jarir Bookstores, opened a new showroom on Monday in Dhahran Street, Hufouf to replace the old rented one.

The new showroom, the fifth to be opened since January, is owned by Jarir and is double the size of the old showroom, the company said in a bourse statement.

The total investment is estimated to be SAR 60 million. The proportion of Saudi nationals employed in this showroom is 65 percent of the total staff.

Jarir expects financial impact of the new showroom to reflect during the fourth quarter of 2017.