The sales area of the BUM supermarket (building universal store) occupies 2,000 m2, and the product assortment includes more than 10,000 items. The owners claim that by the end of January 2006 more than 2 million US dollars had been spent on the project, and that all investments are domestic, Volyn investments. The founders of the shopping center were the Lutsk company "TOP SVIT" and the Trading House "Amiko-Keramika" (Kyivskyi Maidan, 7).
BUM director Ihor Soboychuk believes that the shopping center will differ qualitatively from other building stores, first, by "a much more professional and individualized approach to the client" and, second, by "the opportunity to buy goods 'today for today,' rather than by order." BUM has direct distribution agreements with a number of building materials manufacturers. About 40% of the store's products are of Ukrainian manufacture.
The founders' plans include opening a BUM supermarket chain, a design studio, a project-architecture bureau, an online store, and representative offices of partner companies.