12 dec 2017

Sporting goods retailer Hervis, which has been operating in Romania for about a decade and has 23 stores, wants to open ten more next year, as many as in the last four years. In 2017 it opened five, more

11 dec 2017

Profi retail chain will end the year with almost 700 stores after having opened about 200 in 2017 and expansion will continue at the same rate next year. more

11 dec 2017

Retailer dm drogerie market plans to open ten new stores in 2018 and has earmarked a more than 28 million lei (EUR6 million) expansion budget. It opened or remodeled 11 stores in the big cities of more

8 dec 2017

Danish investment firm Polaris Capital Management, which manages $8 billion assets, will take over the Premium Porc group in Romania, market sources say. more

7 dec 2017

Supermarket and convenience store chain Mega Image has a EUR50 million investment budget and is set to open 50 to 60 stores. more

6 dec 2017

Romanian fashion brand PNK Casual has three single-brand stores in Bucharest and also sells its products via a number of multi-brand stores in the country. Its clothes are also available on 20 foreign more

5 dec 2017

The deal whereby Czech private equity firm Penta Investment buys A&D Pharma, the largest group on Romania’s pharmaceutical market, is close to completion, as an agreement is due for signing by the more

28 nov 2017

The restaurant market doubled in 2008-2016 to 8.5 billion lei (EUR1.8 billion) last year. The number of companies increased by only 27% during the same period, which means average sales per restaurant more

21 nov 2017

Bicycle sales reached EUR82 million in Romania last year, an increase of 37% on 2015. Moreover, the market doubled compared with 2014 and is four times bigger than in 2008, the last year of economic more

15 nov 2017

Eight of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world have a direct presence with wholesale and import operations in Romania. The only ones not to have entered directly are Japan’s Shiseido and more

14 nov 2017

French-held Carrefour group has opened its eighth Supeco store in Romania in Bals, Olt County (south of the country), a city with less than 20,000 people, Eric Bouin, manager of the Supeco chain more

13 nov 2017

Razvan Sin, the expansion director for Romania and Bulgaria of Inditex, Zara owner, for the past two and a half years, has been recruited by NEPI Rockcastle. more

13 nov 2017

Spain’s Inditex, a group that has 125 stores under eight brands in Romania, has made a series of changes to its stores in AFI Cotroceni mall in Bucharest. more

10 nov 2017

Peeraj, the most important fashion franchise group in Romania, has a portfolio of more than ten brands set to reach about 100 stores by yearend. The brands include CCC, Pimkie and Boggi. Two new names more

9 nov 2017

Belgian-Dutch retailer Mega Image, which has more than 560 small-format stores in Romania, posted 2.3 billion lei (EUR511 million) sales in the first half, an increase of 7.5% on the year-ago period. more

8 nov 2017

German-held home appliances manufacturer Miele budgeted 35 million lei (EUR7.6 million) sales from retail operations in Romania for next year, up 25% on 2017. The sales will therefore double in more

8 nov 2017

Apparel sales in Romania will reach almost 13 billion lei (EUR2.82 billion) in next year, after having grown by more than 12% in 2016-2018. The market is dominated by international brands such as H&M, more

3 nov 2017

Fashion retailer PPT Preturi Pentru Tine that four local entrepreneurs launched in 2006 will end the year with 187 stores in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Bulgaria and is now preparing for more

2 nov 2017

The fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s is preparing for the fastest expansion in the last decade for 2018-2020. The chain has 69 restaurants at the moment and will open three more by yearend. more

30 oct 2017

Romania’s wine production is estimated at 5.3 million hectoliters this year, up 64% on 2016 and the highest in the last five years, data from the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) more

25 oct 2017

Carrefour Romania, the operator of the hypermarkets by the same name and the manager of the convenience store franchise of the French group, doubled its profit in the first half to 16.6 million lei more

24 oct 2017

Two entrepreneurs, Samuel Hanuseac and Dan Tisea, started the Noodle Pack restaurant chain after several visits abroad where they tried Asian food, which they then decided to bring to Romania. more

23 oct 2017

US luxury cosmetics giant Estee Lauder entered Romania two decades ago, and last year posted more than EUR10 million sales for the first time. Moreover, it expects the business to grow in 2017, as more

19 oct 2017

The Romanian franchise market has increased in the past two years, going from EUR1.9 billion in 2015 to EUR2.5 billion in 2016. It is on course to reach EUR3 billion by the end of 2017, according to more

16 oct 2017

Subway is one of the biggest fast food restaurant chains in Romania and has more than 45,000 restaurants in 110 markets throughout the world. more