05.25.2012

Samsung Electronics Romania opened Friday its first store in Romania, and presented Samsung Galaxy Beam, a smartphone with a built-in digital light processing projector, launched at the 2012 World more

05.23.2012

German retailer Lidl will open a store Thursday in Medias, central Romania, its 138th store in the country. more

05.17.2012

German discount retailer Rewe on Thursday said it has opened its 125th store under the brand Penny Market in Huedin, in Romania’s northwestern county of Cluj. more

05.08.2012

Mega Image, a member of Belgian group Delhaize, will open Wednesday in Bucharest its 20th Shop&Go proximity store. more

05.03.2012

Romanian retailer Profi, held by investment fund Enterprise Investors, on Thursday opened its 118th store in southeastern county of Ialomita, the retailer said in a press release. more

04.25.2012

Stefanel Romania manager Carlo Stefanel believes Romania is close to leaving the crisis behind and that the face of local retail will change, with free-standing stores to win the fight with malls more

04.23.2012

Romanian construction material retailer Dedeman, the leader of the local DIY market, will open its 28th store Friday, in Ramnicu Valcea, following a EUR12 million investment. more

04.23.2012

Swedish retailer H&M will open a store in the Electroputere Parc Craiova shopping center next week, bringing its Romanian network to 13 units. more

04.19.2012

Belgian-held retailer Mega Image is still betting on expansion, the business model implemented since it first arrived on the market. It set out to open 150 stores in 2012 and 2013 (80 and 70, more

04.09.2012

Men’s fashion retailer Bigotti, controlled by businessmen Ion Olteanu and Emil Rosca, is considering reopening its store on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, where most fashion brands like Max Mara, more

04.06.2012

There was a time when Kenvelo was leader on the Romanian fashion market, recalls Philippe Besadoux, who has been running Kenvelo’s operations in Romania for almost three years. The market became more

04.05.2012

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will launch Friday its 16th Shop&Go store on the Romanian market, with plans to launch another two such units by the end of April. more

03.28.2012

A former teacher from Ramnicu Valcea, Dumitru Craciunescu, has in the last two decades created a RON280 million (EUR63.8 million) business with a chain of 27 food stores under the DIANA brand and a more

03.06.2012

Brasov-based company Retail D&I 2011, which holds the franchise of Dutch retailer Spar on the Romanian market, will open two stores in Brasov in March, bringing the total number of Spar-branded stores more

02.16.2012

Romanian businessman Dinu Patriciu surprised the entire retail market in 2010 when he “declared war” on foreign retail chains and started to develop the Mic.ro and Mac.ro stores (formerly Minimax more

02.02.2012

Austrian building materials retailer bauMax will invest around EUR20 million in a new store in Cluj-Napoca city, northwestern Romania, the company’s general manager for Romania and Bulgaria, Nicola more

01.30.2012

Slovenian home appliances maker Gorenje, which has been operating in Romania for almost a decade now, opened an online store about a month ago, and expects it to generate EUR0.5-EUR1 million sales, as more

01.27.2012

French retailer Auchan will start the development on the Romanian market of shopping centers branded as Auchan City. The first of them will be built this year in the Giulesti district, in the more

01.13.2012

The five retailers that operate on the Romanian hypermarket segment currently have 135 stores, which generate turnover of over EUR3.5 billion. more

01.03.2012

The year 2012 will see investments of tens of millions of euros of foreign supermarket and apparel retail chains continue. It may also be the year when UK’s Tesco arrives, a scenario speculated on more

12.23.2011

Modern retailers continued to invest hundreds of millions of euros this year in the opening of 150 new stores, despite the 4.5% decline of consumer spending in the first ten months. more

12.16.2011

About a decade ago, pastry shop chain Fornetti, the largest network of pastry kiosks in Romania (1,100) entered the local market. A week ago, the chain filed for insolvency under the pressure of loans more

12.16.2011

Ovidiu Wencz, the manager who was at the helm of the Romanian subsidiary of Spanish giant Campofrio for almost nine years until June 2010, has returned to business, as general manager of the Dona more

12.16.2011

The niche of delicacy stores is starting to take shape on the Bucharest market, as small businesses seek to persuade consumers that they offer a viable alternative to the mass products found in more

11.25.2011

Dorina and Dan Mutu from Ramnicu Valcea town have over 17 years built businesses with a turnover in excess of EUR46 million this year. more