12 oct 2017

Czech Republic-based investment group Penta Investments has started talks for the acquisition of the largest pharmaceutical group in Romania, A&D Pharma, market sources say. more

11 oct 2017

Discount store chain Penny Market will see more than 3 billion lei (EUR656 million) sales in 2017, up about 8% on 2016. more

10 oct 2017

Ten sectors of Romania’s economy generate 93% of the revenue of all the local companies, which stood at 1,300 billion lei (EUR284 million). Trade accounts for more than one third of the total more

28 sep 2017

German-held Kaercher group, which started making vacuum cleaners in its own facility in Curtea de Arges (southern Romania) a year ago, has bought a building in the same city to develop a new more

27 sep 2017

Hypermarket and discount store chains are trying to grab as big a slice of the local fashion market valued at 16 billion lei (EUR3.47 billion) as possible so they are launching designer collections or more

26 sep 2017

Adrian Viman, one of the most discreet and powerful local executives is negotiating his return to Romania to prepare for the entry of discount store chain Aldi, market sources say. Viman could not be more

25 sep 2017

Private equity firms are paying more and more attention to the deals in Romania, going for industries they have experience in and for new sectors seeing growth. They spend EUR400 million to EUR700 more

20 sep 2017

Paco Supermarket store chain of entrepreneur Feliciu Paraschiv opened three supermarkets last year for a total of ten in Vrancea County (eastern Romania). The businessman says he has no expansion more

13 sep 2017

Dalli Production Romania, which operates a detergent plant in Timisoara, Romania, posted 352 million lei (EUR77 million) revenue and had 200 employees in 2016, its first full year in business. It also more

31 aug 2017

The share of private labels in the fast-moving consumer goods market reached 15.3% at the end of the first quarter, down 0.3% on the year-ago period. more

30 aug 2017

Entrepreneur Petre Popa, who established ice cream producer Top Gel in Craiova two decades ago, is in talks with several strategic and financial investors over selling it. more

29 aug 2017

Local retail chains are potential targets for the modern retail ‘sharks’ such as Profi, Mega Image and Carrefour. The international supermarket and hypermarket chains are thus trying to expand more

28 aug 2017

Romania assembled about 900,000 bicycles last year, about as many as in 2015, but twice as many as in 2008-2009, which puts the country on the sixth place among bicycle manufacturers in the EU. more

25 aug 2017

More than 1,300 companies grow grapes and make wine in Romania and about one third of them are registered in Vrancea County (eastern Romania). more

24 aug 2017

International retailers, among which Profi and Mega Image, are considering buying Unicarm store chain, market sources say. more

24 aug 2017

The most powerful 25 law firms in Romania employ more than 1,100 lawyers, that is about 10% of all the Bucharest Bar Association members, according to ZF estimates. more

23 aug 2017

BayWa, the largest agricultural cooperative in Germany, is restructuring its grain trading business in Romania, after only two years, during which it saw record growth to EUR100 million. more

22 aug 2017

Ten Romanian and foreign executives run the local modern grocery retailers, which make an about 50 billion lei (almost EUR11 billion) market and have more than 75,000 employees. more

22 aug 2017

Turkish-held fashion retailer LC Waikiki saw an increase in revenue by almost 50% to almost 200 million lei (EUR44 million) last year. more

21 aug 2017

There are about 1,000 companies that make footwear in Romanian, which employ 50,000 people, reveals the World Footwear yearbook. Romania is one of the most important European manufacturers and more

21 aug 2017

Israeli-held Elbit group has notified the NASDAQ market about the signing of an agreement to sell the Radisson Blu hotel in Bucharest. more

18 aug 2017

The computer and electronics market has gone through significant changes in the past decade, which reconfigured not only the ranking of the largest actors but also its basic structure. more

17 aug 2017

The local restaurant market will see a new arrival this year, US-held pizza and Italian cuisine restaurant chain Sbarro, which has more than 800 restaurants in 30 countries. This is the second big more

17 aug 2017

French-held Carrefour, the second largest local modern retailer in Romania, plans to work with Romanian plants and local designers to develop collections under its Tex brand. Its private label apparel more

14 aug 2017

Businessman Ovidiu Buluc is about to reach an agreement with German-held pharmaceutical giant Phoenix to sell his pharmaceutical wholesale and retail group Farmexim in an over EUR100 million deal, more