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Pharmaceuticals company Sanofi Romania, the local division of French giant Sanofi, has announced the appointment of Thomas Bosment as Country Head of its Consumer Healthcare (CHC) business unit. more

06.30.2023

Romania had the lowest price level for consumer goods among the EU Member States in 2022, with 42% below the EU average, being the least expensive country for food and non-alcoholic beverages, in line more

12.12.2022

Inflation is a top concern for two-thirds of consumers in Romania, followed by the invasion of Ukraine and healthcare costs, according to the “Consumer Sentiment Survey” conducted by more

09.07.2022

European consumer confidence has collapsed. It has now fallen below the level recorded during the pandemic (-24.7 points in April 2020) and well below the level during the 2009 crisis (-21.1 points). more

07.11.2022

EY Future Consumer, the global research of 18,000 consumers, conducted between May 18 and June 7, 2022, found that 79% of consumers say their personal finances are a concern, with 62% expecting their more

07.07.2022

Garanti BBVA Consumer Finance, part of Garanti BBVA Group Romania, has signed a loan agreement of EUR10 million with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank more

06.22.2022

Romania had the lowest consumer prices in Europe in 2021, with a price level for consumer goods and services of 55.5% of the EU average, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European more

04.20.2022

France’s BNP Paribas is interested in selling Cetelem's operations in the region, market sources say. It would like to sell the whole package to a single buyer, but in some cases, there is interest more

02.03.2022

New consumer and mortgage loans taken by consumers from banks, in lei and euros, accelerated in 2021 to a 15-year high, after declining in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Romania’s more

12.15.2021

Cisco released the Cisco 2021 Consumer Privacy Survey which explores what individuals are doing to protect their privacy, the impact of privacy regulations, and their attitudes regarding the use of more

11.23.2021

Leszek Wacirz, country manager at Nestle Romania, says the company wants to double its activity locally in the next 5-10 years, both through organic growth, through the product mix and via potential more

09.30.2021

Romanian consumers took out almost RON2.63 billion new consumer loans in August 2021, the second highest monthly volume in the last 14 years and 49.4% higher than in August 2020. more

09.07.2021

Romanian consumers took out more than RON2.87 billion new consumer loans in July 2021, the highest monthly volume in 14 years and 37.3% higher on the year-ago month. more

09.02.2021

Bacau-based Simba Invest, a major consumer goods distributor in Romania, in 2020 generated turnover worth around RON495.9 million (EUR102.9 million), up 10% from the previous year, in line with ZF more

06.24.2021

More than half of global consumers (54%) have become more focused on saving and more price-oriented (56%) in the last nine months, according to PwC’s Global Consumer Insights Pulse Survey conducted more

06.22.2021

Romania, Bulgaria and Poland have the lowest price levels for consumer goods, half the European average, while Denmark, Ireland and Luxembourg have the highest price levels, way above the EU average, more

06.09.2021

New consumer loans in lei reached more than RON2.52 billion in Romania in April 2021, the highest level in 14 years and 4.3 times higher than in April 2020. more

05.25.2021

The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) is providing a loan of up to EUR10 million to Garanti BBVA Consumer Finance, to finance energy improvements and resource efficiency of residential more

04.19.2021

Consumer spending rose a lot in small cities of less than 50,000 people in the first two months of 2021 compared with the year-ago period, so sales of food, personal and household care products went more

04.13.2021

Italy’s UniCredit Group, which holds the fifth largest bank on the Romanian market by assets, has approved the appointment of Sorin Dragulin to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of more

03.25.2021

Footwear retailer Benvenuti, held by local entrepreneur Dan Pavel, believes the fashion market will follow the same trend in 2021 as it did in the second half of last year, with lower sales than the more

03.11.2021

The volume of deposits per capita stands at more than RON24,000 in Bucharest-Ilfov, while the lowest volume is in Giurgiu County, RON2,160, 11 times less than in Bucharest, ZF has calculated from more

02.09.2021

Most Romanians prefer to buy dairy products from supermarket and hypermarket chains, to the detriment of farmers' markets or convenience stores, a survey by Reveal Marketing Research showed Tuesday. more

02.03.2021

New consumer and mortgage loans in lei and euros consumers took from banks fell by some RON2.7 billion or 7% from the 2019 level to RON34.3 billion in 2020. Last year was the first of decline for new more

12.21.2020

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) are providing financing of up to EUR15 million to UniCredit Consumer more