05.22.2025

Romania modern stock of retail spaces has reached around 4.7 million square meters, corresponding to a density of 250 square meters/1,000 inhabitants, still one of the lowest both in Europe and in more

07.12.2024

The retail sector continues to be appealing both to major investors, with investment funds willing to develop projects of hundreds of million euros, and for Romanian ones, who increasingly choose to more

02.23.2024

Romania has a total modern retail space stock of more than 4.3 million square meters, of which over 2.7 million square meters are malls and the rest mainly retail parks, the annual market report more

07.31.2023

Developers in the first half of this year delivered four modern retail projects with a total 30,000-sqm area, in Giurgiu, Calarasi, Dej and Vaslui, with the second half offering set to be much more more

04.06.2022

The modern retail stock in Romania is expected to grow by approximately 147,000 square meters by the end of 2022, of which 22% will be delivered in capital Bucharest and the remaining 78% will be more

01.27.2022

Modern food retailers in Romania target some 600 new store openings and relocations in 2022, which means the universe of local hypermarkets, supermarkets, modern convenience stores, discount and cash more

01.05.2022

2022 is expected to be the year Romania’s modern retail will witness the quickest expansion so far, with over 500 new units and investments of at least EUR1 billion. more

09.20.2021

Romania’s modern retail landscape is an exact copy of the Romanian economy as most stores are opened in the most economically powerful counties, led by Bucharest. more

08.06.2021

In the first six months of 2021, international chains opened 170 units of the around 400 previously planned. Some networks are stepping up expansion in 2H to hit their target. more

04.02.2021

Retail developers have set out to conquer the last “strongholds”, counties that lacked modern retail project, and last year delivered the first modern retail projects in four new counties – more

11.03.2020

Romania’s modern retail space stock, made up of shopping centers, retail parks and retail galleries, has exceeded the level of 4 million square meters, but the market growth rate is expected to slow more

08.18.2020

Discount retail chains – Lidl, Penny and Supeco, now account for one fifth of the modern retail sales, after their sales went up twice faster than the market on average last year. more

07.17.2020

Modern retail, an industry with over 3,000 supermarkets, hypermarkets, cash&carry, discount and proximity stores, had an average number of 79,000 employees in 2019, just 400 more compared with 2018, more

04.23.2020

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11.26.2019

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08.30.2019

The revenue per employee, a key indicator of the local modern retailer, ranges from 440,000 lei to 1.5 million lei (EUR93,000 to over EUR317,000), ZF has calculated from publicly available data. more

08.05.2019

Modern retail stock, which includes retail parks and shopping centers, reached approximately 3.7 million square meters in the first half of 2019, of which 31% in Bucharest, as developers focus on more

03.13.2019

Romanian consumers spend EUR20 billion on food and other fast-moving consumer goods a year and 62% of the spending is made in modern retail stores, mostly hypermarkets and supermarkets. more

12.12.2018

Modern retail in Romania is an about EUR12 billion market with more than 2,500 stores, dominated by ten international actors. The sector saw a number of executive changes, expansion by several hundred more

09.25.2018

Modern retail has grown to almost 2,500 stores after retailers opened more than 200 stores in the first nine months of the year, spending over EUR100 million to EUR150 million, according to ZF more

06.14.2018

The ten chains in Romania’s modern grocery retail posted more than 53 billion lei (EUR11 billion) revenue in 2017, 11% above the 2016 level. more

01.23.2018

Modern retail reached more than 2,200 stores in Romania at the end of last year, almost five times more than in 2008, the last year of economic boom. more

01.09.2018

Modern retailers will continue expansion in 2018 at the same pace as in 2017, when they opened more than 300 new stores. As retailers have announced and ZF has estimated, modern retail will add 300 to more

12.20.2017

Modern retail is an about EUR11 billion market with more than 2,000 stores, dominated by ten international groups. The sector continued to expand in 2017, at the same rate in as the last few years more

08.22.2017

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