10.10.2014

Retailers have become Bucharest’s biggest employers after hypermarkets have replaced former decrepit plants. As a matter of fact, Bucharest has no plant left employing 1,000 people. more

07.16.2014

Shopping center owners find it hard to fill 130 stores as the number of retailers boasting nationwide coverage is small and a large part of them are not expanding at the moment, says Tatian Diaconu, more

07.10.2014

The French Mulliez family, which has built a retail empire with about EUR80 billion yearly sales worldwide, has invested about one billion euros in acquisitions and development in Romania over the more

07.07.2014

Retailer Auchan could launch a new hypermarket format on the Romanian market to cover small towns, a format it is currently expanding in Russia as Nasha Raduga and which has been successful in China. more

07.03.2014

French-held retailer Auchan has reached an agreement to buy 12 hypermarkets and shopping galleries in Romania located in Bucharest, Timisoara and other eight cities. The deal amounts to about EUR280 more

06.04.2014

The new head of retailer Auchan România, Frédéric Bellon, estimates a growth in sales this year, after a minor increase in the first months of the year compared with the same period of 2013. more

06.02.2014

Real hypermarkets reported losses of almost 304 million lei (EUR68.7 million) last year, the steepest since the company entered the Romanian market in 2006, according to Trade Registry data. more

05.29.2014

Immochan Romania has invested over EUR1 million to bring the commercial galleries Auchan Titan and Iris under a single brand, Centrul Comercial Auchan Titan, the company announced. more

05.13.2014

Auchan Romania offered EUR19 million to Rolast company for the real estate which hosts Auchan Gavana hypermarket in Pitesti city (former real) and the complex of shops, the company stated. more

05.06.2014

Auchan Romania announced Tuesday that it has appointed Frédéric Bellon as general manager, starting May 7. more

04.11.2014

Auchan Romania will analyze in 2015 the option to open an online store, so that it might test the concept in 2016, the company’s representatives said Friday. more

04.11.2014

Auchan Romania registered sales of 4.6 billion lei (EUR1.03 billion) in 2013, excluding taxes, more than double the RON1.97 billion sales posted in 2012, following the integration of the 20 real more

04.11.2014

Auchan group finalized the refitting of the 20 Real stores it officially took over at the end of last July after it got the Competition Council’s ok. The French group invested around EUR40 million more

04.02.2014

Auchan Romania rebranded its real hypermarket in Bacau city, which will be opened Thursday, being the 17th remodeled unit of the 20 bought from German group METRO. more

03.17.2014

The Real store in Targu Mures (north-central Romania) will reopen as Auchan City Thursday, retailer Auchan Romania said in a statement. more

03.12.2014

Auchan Romania rebranded its real hypermarket in Craiova town, which will be opened Thursday, being the 14th remodeled unit of the 20 bought from German group METRO. more

02.19.2014

Auchan Romania will reopen real hypermarket in Pitesti city Thursday, being the fifth store rebranded this year and the 12th of the 20 real hypermarkets Auchan acquired last year from German group more

02.12.2014

German retailer Lidl will open a new store in Romania Thursday, in western city of Arad, bringing its local network to 171 units, the company said Wednesday. more

01.28.2014

The Real hypermarket Timisoara Sud will reopen as Auchan Thursday, being the second unit rebranded this year and the ninth of the 20 Real hypermarkets Auchan acquired last year from German group more

01.24.2014

The Romanian units of French carmaker Renault and hypermarket chain Auchan, which have 27,000 employees between them, signed contracts early this year that introduced medical insurance from private more

01.14.2014

Czech-based InterCora group, the developer of more than 30 stores for the Kaufland chain in Romania, is working on the demolition of the former Munplast plastic products plant in Bucharest, which it more

01.10.2014

Auchan will complete by April the rebranding of the real hypermarkets it took over last year in Romania, Tiberiu Daneti, the company’s marketing manager told Mediafax. more

01.09.2014

The former Real hypermarket in Ploiesti, southern Romania, will be remodeled and rebranded as Auchan by the end of January and is having a clearance sale until January 14. more

12.27.2013

Auchan will have the second largest hypermarket network in Romania in 2014 when it completes the remodel of the 20 Real hypermarkets it bought from Metro, according to market research firm GfK. more

12.03.2013

Auchan Romania has rebranded the last Real store of the seven it planned for this year and will open it Wednesday in Satu Mare, northern Romania. more