12.19.2024

D&B David si Baias, PwC's correspondent law firm in Romania, has assisted the Altex group, owned by Romanian entrepreneur Dan Ostahie, in its acquisition of the Brico Dépôt DIY store chain in more

12.18.2024

Dan Ostahie, one of the most powerful local entrepreneurs, Altex founder, has acquired the local operations of DIY retailer Brico Dépôt from Britain’s Kingfisher for EUR70 million (enterprise more

09.27.2024

The officials of France-based ADEO Group, held by the Mulliez family, which owns Leroy Merlin in Romania, will not comment on the information about talks with UK’s Kingfisher over buying Brico more

09.27.2024

UK’s Kingfisher Group, which owns DIY retailer Brico Dépôt in Romania, is in talks to sell the operations in the country, market sources told ZF. more

05.23.2024

Brico Dépôt Romania, part of British group Kingfisher, in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 registered sales worth £63 million, 12.3% higher than in the year-earlier period and up 14.7% in more

05.25.2023

Brico Depot Romania retailer, part of Kingfisher group, ended the first three months of 2023 fiscal year with £59 million sales, amid rising consumer demand for most product categories, but more

03.23.2023

Britain’s Brico Depot, a major DIY retailer in Romania, closed down two stores in early 2023, thus having 33 stores left. more

08.01.2022

DIY network Brico Depot, with 35 stores on the Romanian market, wants to expand the range of products it sells in Romania and continue investments in the online platform. more

03.30.2022

UK’s Kingfisher, which owns the Brico Depot DIY stores in Romania, saw its local sales increase by 15% in 2021 versus 2020, to GBP279 million (almost EUR335 million), in line with Kingfisher’s more

02.24.2022

DIY network Brico Depot Romania, owned by Britain’s Kingfisher, wants to develop the outlet-type chain it launched in 2020 with the opening of a unit in Chiajna, near Bucharest. more

09.23.2021

UK’s Kingfisher, which owns the Brico Depot DIY stores in Romania, saw its sales increase by 19.2% in the first half of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, as a result of the greater demand for more

09.15.2021

Bricostore Romania, the company through which Britain’s Kingfisher group operates its 35 DIY units domestically, is set to implement an EU co-funded project for employee training until January 2023. more

11.27.2020

UK’s Kingfisher Group, which holds do-it-yourself (DIY) Brico Dépôt stores, reported a 10.6% like-for-like growth in sales in Romania in the third quarter of 2020, per its latest financial report. more

10.28.2020

Do-it-yourself retailer Brico Depot posted 9% like-for-like growth in sales in the first half of 2020 and the online sales contributed a lot to the total. more

05.22.2020

Brico Dépôt do-it-yourself stores in Romania posted GBP43 million (some EUR48 million) sales in the first quarter of 2020, 10.6% higher than in the year-ago period, the first quarter financial more

06.19.2019

Romanian coffee shop chain 5 to go continues its expansion plan and has opened its first unit within a DIY store within a partnership with Brico Depot Baneasa in Bucharest. more

03.20.2019

UK's Kingfisher, owner of DIY retailers Brico Dépôt and Praktiker, seeks to consolidate its business this year and considers expansion in the future, said Adela Smeu, CEO of Brico Dépôt. more

12.04.2017

DYI retail chain Brico Depôt Romania, part of Britain's Kingfisher plc, has completed the acquisition of 100% in competitor Praktiker Romania. more

08.02.2017

Britain's Kingfisher plc, which owns Brico Depôt Romania, announced it has reached an agreement to take over 100% of do-it-yourself chain Praktiker Romania SRL. more

04.24.2016

Bricostore Romania, which operates do-it-yourself retail chain Brico Depot, registered last year a double-digit sales growth, and targets a similar increase for 2016. more

10.06.2015

UK’s Kingfisher put French executive Christian Mazauric in charge of the Romanian do-it-yourself retail chain Brico Depot, replacing Patrick Papot at the beginning of September, according to the more

09.03.2015

British DIY retailer Kingfisher has completed the remodeling into Brico Depot stores of all 15 Bricostore units it bought in 2013 from France's Group Bresson and will be opening the last remodeled more

02.18.2015

British DYI retailer Kingfisher announced it is starting remodeling works on six more stores bought from Bricostore into Brico Dépôt stores. more

02.18.2015

Britain’s Kingfisher, which owns Bricostore and Brico Depot stores in Romania, forged a partnership with German group Metro to open some temporary warehouses in the spaces of the cash&carry network, more

10.31.2014

British DIY retailer Kingfisher is seeking to lease out the space it vacated after remodeling Bricostore units in Romania into Brico Dépôt stores. more