09.25.2019

French-held do-it-yourself retailer Leroy Merlin, with 17 stores in Romania will open its next store in Romania on the Theodor Pallady Boulevard in Bucharest in April 2020. more

06.27.2019

The do-it-yourself retail market put at EUR4 billion has the potential to easily double in the next few years, believes Frederic Lamy, CEO of DIY retailer Leroy Merlin Romania. more

05.29.2018

Do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman, the largest entrepreneurial company in Romania, saw profit up by nearly 25% year-on-year in 2017. Last year’s profit stood at 889 million lei (some EUR193 million), more

05.14.2018

Do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman posted 6.33 billion lei (EUR1.39 billion) revenue last year, up 20% on 2016, a growth rate almost three times higher than its owners estimated at the beginning of the more

03.16.2018

Five DIY retail brands have disappeared from the Romanian market in the past five years, following a number of deals, as the new owners brought with them new names for the networks they bought. more

02.06.2018

The top ten players in the building materials and DIY sector in Romania posted almost 12 billion lei (EUR2.6 billion) revenue in 2016, double the 2006 level, RON5.9 billion. more

10.05.2017

Bucharest’s Theodor Pallady Blvd continues to attract retail investment as the number of residential projects in the east of the city increases. more

06.08.2017

Do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman, the largest entrepreneurial business in Romania, ended last year with more than EUR160 million net profit, up 27% on the previous year, according to the Finance more

03.03.2017

Romanian construction materials distributor Arabesque will be entering, next week, the do-it-yourself retail segment, by opening the first store under the brand MatHaus, in the city of Iasi. more

12.12.2016

Do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman Bacau, the largest entrepreneurial company in Romania, has overshot the one billion euro sales mark on the Romanian market. more

10.12.2016

Do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman Bacau, the largest entrepreneurial company in Romania, posted growth of 26% in revenue to 2.2 billion lei (EUR500 million) in the first half, according to publicly more

07.08.2016

Do-it-yourself retailer Praktiker Romania owner Omer Susli says the wave of Romanians that left in search of work abroad has made a severe impact on retail, leaving some cities without retail more

06.16.2016

Ambient Sibiu, a construction supplies distribution and do-it-yourself retail company created by entrepreneur Ioan Ciolan that was included among the 50 largest entrepreneurial companies in 2014, saw more

06.06.2016

Do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman held by local entrepreneurs Dragos and Adrian Paval budgeted 4.53 billion lei (EUR1.01 billion) revenue for this year, and will thus become the first Romanian-owned more

05.05.2016

Paving setts and curbstone manufacturer Symmetrica estimates that 80% of its retail sales are generated by do-it-yourself (DIY) stores, while the rest of 20% is generated by other traditional stores, more

02.01.2016

Consolidation, exits, and acquisitions will continue in Romania over the next decade and only three out of the nine players on the do-it-yourself retail market will still be there by 2026, believes more

11.27.2015

Turkish-born businessman Omer Susli who took over the do-it-yourself retail chain Praktiker in the first half of last year says he plans to hire 400 people especially for counseling and in-store more

11.09.2015

The year 2015 came with growth of 5% to 30% in sales for do-it-yourself businesses in Romania. more

10.07.2015

Bacau-based do-it-yourself retail chain Dedeman, the largest entrepreneurial business in Romania, ended the first half with almost 1.8 billion lei (EUR408 million) revenue, an increase of 30% on the more

09.22.2015

French-held do-it-yourself group Leroy Merlin, now in the process of the rebranding the former bauMax Romania stores it took over last fall, is interested in development of new stores of its own in more

08.27.2015

Sibiu-based do-it-yourself retailer and construction material distributor Ambient controlled by businessman Ioan Ciolan ended 2014 with 497 million lei (EUR112 million) revenue, down 20% on 2013 and more

06.30.2015

Bacau-based do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman, the largest entrepreneurial business in Romania, has started looking for people to hire at its new store in Timisoara. This is the second store of Dedeman more

06.17.2015

German-held do-it-yourself retailer Hornbach, which has five stores in Romania, saw sales up 9% from 440 million lei to 479 million lei (EUR107 million) in 2014, according to its Finance Ministry more

06.09.2015

Bacau-based do-it-yourself retail chain Dedeman, the largest Romanian-held company, overshot the 400 million (EUR90 million) mark in earnings for the first time, according to Trade Registry data, more

05.28.2015

Construction material distributor Arabesque held by low-profile Galati entrepreneur Cezar Rapotan, saw flat sales of 1.5 billion lei (EUR337 million) in 2014, thus ending the decline of 2012 and 2013. more