05.30.2014

Romtelecom and Cosmote Romania will complete this autumn the process for the adoption of the "T" brand of German group Deutsche Telekom, which holds a 40% stake in Greece’s OTE Group, the majority more

05.30.2014

French group Carrefour, already present in Romania with around 150 stores operating under four concepts, has introduced the Contact brand on the Romanian market this year, which it plans to launch in more

03.27.2014

Turkish businessman Omer Susli, the new owner of do-it-yourself retail chain Praktiker Romania, said the business was badly managed by its former owners and the Praktiker brand will be relaunched in more

03.13.2014

Romanian telecom operator Romtelecom will be rebranded by September 12 under the "T" brand of German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom, which owns Greek group OTE, people close to the matter told Ziarul more

11.07.2013

Sales of private label products increased by 34% on the year in 2012 on the food segment and by 36% on the non-food segment, according to a report by Romania’s Competition Council released Thursday. more

10.29.2013

On a fast moving consumer goods market that is progressing in small steps (below 5%), the private label products developed by retailers are the only ones to see significant growth, says Hans Dewaele, more

10.24.2013

Sales of store brand butter exceeded sales of butter produced under famous brands like Albalact, Friesland and Lactalis between August 2012 and July 2013, according to market research company Nielsen. more

10.16.2013

Solomon Mordechai, the Greek businessman who carries out investments in the Romanian retail, restaurant, real estate and telecom sectors and brought the famous luxury brand to Romania, said he plans more

09.27.2013

Foreign fashion retailers H&M, Inditex (owner of Zara) and C&A have reached more than EUR350 million revenue and over 150 stores in five years, from the EUR50 million sales generated by 20 stores in more

09.09.2013

London-based brewer SABMiller, which owns Ursus Breweries in Romania, has appointed Romanian Laura Andrei as international senior brand manager of Czech lager Kozel. more

07.17.2013

Carpathian Springs, owner of mineral water brand Aqua Carpatica, created by businessman Jean Valvis in 2010, doubled its turnover in 2012 to about 34 million lei (EUR7.5 million), according to ZF more

07.10.2013

Srdjan Kovacevic, the Serb entrepreneur who opened the way for the luxury market in Romania and who brought brands such as Max Mara, Ermenegildo Zegna and Emporio Armani to Bucharest’s main shopping more

05.27.2013

French group Lactalis decided to replace the Romanian LaDorna cheese brand with President, one of the most renowned brands in the European cheese industry. more

05.07.2013

Romanian modern retail is dominated by foreign networks, which boast annual sales of EUR8.5-EUR9 billion. No local entrepreneur manages to compete against Kaufland, Lidl and Carrefour, and none have more

03.04.2013

Private labels, no-name products that have taken local commerce by storm in the past few years as the economic crisis hit and consumption declined, have now become top-selling brands in categories more

12.29.2012

Foreign companies have flooded the Romanian market with more or less known brands. While thousands of them are vying over customer attention in Romania, the number of local brands known in the West is more

11.14.2012

Almost all premium and luxury car brands posted double or triple-digit growth in the first ten months of the year, while volume brands continued to decline because of an almost non-existing clunkers more

09.24.2012

Robert Coman, one of the founders of IT distributor and retailer Best Computers, will open a Roberto Cavalli mono-brand store later this year within the luxury shopping gallery The Grand of five-star more

12.19.2011

Tudor Ghiurca, Otilia Priceputu and Diana Stan are the Romanians taking care of the brands of Unilever, the second largest local non-food consumer goods producer, whose sales amount to almost EUR200 more

11.28.2011

The Romanian soft drink market did better in 2011, when the decline in sales was lower than the dramatic drop posted in 2010, says Mihaela Burtoi, group brand manager of soft drink maker Tymbark, more

10.28.2011

The Romanian Tourism Ministry awarded a EUR3.2 million contract to firm EMC South Central Europe-The Network, which will provide consulting services to promote the country’s tourism brand, the more

10.12.2011

In retail, old Romanian brands such as Brifcor, Eugenia and chocolate bar Rom managed to stand the test of time and be prominent on store shelves even today. The same happened in the case of brands more

09.28.2011

Romania's Regional Development and Tourism Ministry wants the Danube to be promoted internationally through its own tourism brand, created through a European project. more

09.21.2011

Klaus Pumpel, chief executive officer of tour operator TUI Austria, says he knows nothing about Romania’s tourism brand launched last year after a EUR900,000 investment and he has not heard the more

09.08.2011

Mineral water brand Borsec ranked first, for the second year in a row, among the 50 most powerful Romanian brands, in a chart compiled by Biz magazine in association with Unlock Market Research. more