Three FREOR Equipped SILPO Stores Included in Europe’s Finest 2025 List

Europe’s Finest 2025 List

Europe’s Finest is an annual special report by ESM that spotlights the most innovative and inspiring new or renovated grocery stores across Europe. The latest edition of the year 2025 highlights 30 stores in 17 countries across Europe, showcasing advancements in retail technology, design, and sustainability.

Among these top locations are three SILPO supermarkets – in Lviv, Poltava, and Irpin (Kyiv region), recognized as some of the best supermarkets in Europe.

Spotlight on the Recognized SILPO Stores

Each SILPO supermarket is designed around a unique theme, transforming its customers’ shopping into a fascinating experience:

• SILPO in Irpin – a playful plasticine-inspired world, offering shoppers a sense of creativity and wonder.
• SILPO in Poltava – a store dedicated to primitive art, blending cultural heritage with modern retail.
• SILPO in Lviv – a celebration of contemporary cyberculture, featuring futuristic design with cutting-edge shopping technology.

These themed environments demonstrate SILPO’s commitment to storytelling in retail, where every store feels like a distinct world, with FREOR refrigeration equipment ensuring product freshness, reliable performance, and energy efficiency behind the scenes.

FREOR Refrigeration Equipment Powering SILPO’s Success

While each SILPO location is uniquely themed and designed by its own creative team, the chain consistently relies on FREOR refrigeration equipment, not only for its reliability and excellent cooling performance, but also for its flexibility and ability to blend seamlessly into diverse interiors, ensuring that the spotlight remains on the products displayed.

Although each SILPO supermarket features a creative and distinctive design, the store layouts between aisles remain mostly consistent, ensuring a familiar and comfortable shopping experience for customers across all locations. This consistency also allows SILPO to implement the same reliable FREOR refrigeration equipment units in every store, including:

• JUPITER multidecks – an excellent solution for placement along supermarket walls. These units are equipped with glass doors and panoramic sidewalls, ensuring that products remain the primary focus from every angle while blending seamlessly into any store design.
• PLUTON SPACE semi verticals – perfect solution to be placed around the store or near the walls, since their medium height does not cover or block the overall supermarket interior.
• VEGA SPACE QB serve-overs – ideal for forming islands in the middle of the store. Available in high-glass (HG) and low-glass (LG) versions, they can be connected with rounded corners (OC90R) to create a distinctive and eye-catching fresh product display.
• IDA S self-service counters – strategically placed throughout the store, these counters provide flexible solutions for seasonal assortments or promotional product ranges.
• ELISA VISION QB – designed with an elegant, all-glass upper part construction, these units add a premium, sophisticated look to patisserie sections, putting products in the spotlight.

Having worked together for many years, FREOR also supplies SILPO supermarkets with refrigeration units that are specifically designed or modified to meet their unique needs and seamlessly integrate into their store designs.

Sustainability in Ukraine’s Leading Supermarkets

For over a year, all new SILPO supermarkets have been equipped with sustainable and energy-efficient CO₂-driven FREOR commercial refrigeration equipment, connected to the traditional centralized cooling system.

The recognition of three FREOR equipped SILPO supermarkets in Europe’s Finest 2025 showcases the strength of our long-standing partnership. SILPO continues to impress shoppers with imaginative store designs, while FREOR’s refrigeration equipment ensures that every product is displayed at its best, delivering energy efficiency and sustainability.