03.23.2015

Dedeman, the biggest Romanian-held do-it-yourself retailer, reported revenue of EUR767 million in 2014, up 26% on the year, and Dragos Paval, the company’s president and majority stakeholder, more

02.26.2015

Romanian DIY retailer Dedeman, controlled by brothers Adrian and Dragos Paval, is the fifth biggest player in Central and Eastern Europe in this field, with a 1.2% share of a total market valued at more

01.22.2015

DIY retailer Dedeman, owned by brothers Adrian and Dragos Paval, has earmarked investments of more than EUR60 million for 2015 in network expansion, with the retailer set to open at least four new more

11.19.2014

The total revenue of six of the biggest players on the Romanian DIY market--Dedeman, Ambient, Bricostore, Praktiker, Hornbach and Leroy Merlin--rose by 11.8% in the first half of this year, to 2.38 more

11.17.2014

After buying the operations of German group Praktiker in Romania earlier this year, Turkish-born businessman Omer Susli wants to buy the spaces where the stores operate. more

11.11.2014

German-held do-it-yourself retailer Hornbach will open a new store in Sibiu in the first half of next year, where it bought an about three-hectare plot and the space that previously housed an OBI more

11.06.2014

DIY company Dedeman, controlled by brothers Adrian and Dragos Paval of Bacau, in the first six months of this year registered revenue worth 1.35 billion lei (around EUR304 million), up 27% against the more

10.29.2014

Germany’s DIY retailer Hornbach, which owns five stores in Romania, is still seeking to expand in large cities, as it is currently present only in capital Bucharest (with three stores), Brasov and more

10.21.2014

Despite a year that has witnessed a lot of moves, the consolidation of Romania’s do-it-yourself (DIY) market is not over, according to major players in the field, which believe other networks will more

10.14.2014

The sales of the first Brico Depot stores that replaced the former Bricostore units of Orhideea and Pantelimon in Bucharest rose by 20%, a reason why the network rebranding process has been more

10.08.2014

French-held group Adeo, controlled by the Mulliez family, added EUR26.5 million to the share capital of Leroy Merlin Bricolaj of Romania in a bid to support the development of the local store network more

10.03.2014

Dedeman, the largest player on Romania’s DIY market, last month bought a 4.7-ha land plot from former industrial platform Chimopar and has started building its fourth store of Bucharest. The store more

09.10.2014

British group Kingfisher, which last spring bough the 15 Bricostore DIY stores, registered sales of GBP42 million (around EUR52 million) in Romania and a loss of around GBP6 million in the first half more

08.08.2014

Bacau-based retail chain Dedeman and French-held Leroy Merlin will open two do-it-yourself stores in Bucharest, which has not seen any such new projects in three years. Moreover, Germany’s OBI has more

07.21.2014

In just 15 months, Romania’s do-it-yourself (DIY) market has undergone radical change, as four groups--Bricostore, Praktiker, BauMax and OBI--decided to leave, another two players, Britain’s more

07.08.2014

German-held do-it-yourself retailer OBI, which entered Romania in 2008, is getting ready to leave the market where it operates seven stores that generated only EUR37 million sales last year. more

07.07.2014

Turkish-born businessman Omer Susli, who in February reached an agreement to buy do-it-yourself retail chain Praktiker in Romania, says the 27 stores generated almost 10 million lei (EUR2 million) net more

04.29.2014

Businessman Omer Susli, who reached an agreement at the end February to buy the Romanian operations of the Praktiker group after the bankruptcy of the German-held do-it-yourself retailer, will more

04.07.2014

George Tapu and Oleg Tataru, owners of Artsani Com, which with a DIY and building materials store in Ploiesti generates annual sales of almost EUR30 million, are mulling expansion outside Prahova more

04.02.2014

On a do-it-yourself market where Praktiker and Bricostore changed owners and BauMax and OBI are planning to leave, the Paval brothers took Dedeman to over EUR600 million revenue. more

03.31.2014

Bacau-based Dedeman has in the past five years had a lot of room for maneuver on the DIY market, where it has operated almost alone: it has opened 25 new stores and bolstered revenue by 140%, to more

03.06.2014

Britain’s Kingfisher, set to officially enter the Romanian market next week by opening the first Brico Depot-branded DIY stores, appointed French-born Patrick Papot as chief executive of the more

03.03.2014

Omer Susli, the Turkish investor who at bought from Germany’s Praktiker the group's 27-store network in Romania, hopes to bring the company back to profit in two years at the latest. Revenue should more

01.20.2014

UK’s Kingfisher, the largest do-it-yourself retailer in Europe, will put its logo on the first Romanian store by the end of the quarter, as the former Bricostore stores in Orhideea and Pantelimon more

09.06.2013

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin, which owns one store in Romania, in retail park Colosseum in Chitila, near Bucharest, registered turnover of EUR21 million locally in 2012, according to data obtained more