10.12.2015

Arab-held Peeraj group, the most powerful franchise holder in the fashion retail in Romania, will end the year with 70 stores and EUR35 million revenue in Romania. more

09.29.2015

The Kenvelo group, which holds several fashion brands, decided to drop the Brioche Doree (coffee shops) and Mim (fashion) franchises as of October 1, to focus on its core business for the time being. more

09.24.2015

Pandora Prod, a clothing manufacturer based in Vrancea County (eastern Romania) and held by the Simiz family, exports its entire production made by the 1,300 employees in the three facilities in more

09.23.2015

Italian fashion brand Stefanel, which arrived in Romania in the early nineties, will come close to EUR6 million revenue this year, following a two-digit growth rate and the opening of three new more

09.22.2015

The Fashion House outlet at the entrance to the Bucharest-Pitesti Highway is 89% rented seven years from opening and its more than 60 tenants include Adidas, Puma, Mango and Stefanel. more

09.16.2015

Dutch-held C&A group, which entered Romania in 2009, has grown to 31 stores and about 276 million lei (EUR62 million) revenue, which put the fashion retailer on the third place in Romania after more

09.02.2015

Poland's leading online fashion retailer answear.com has hired Raluca Radu to run its Romanian operations. more

08.31.2015

The fast-paced expansion of international giants Zara, H&M and C&A, which dominate the European fashion market and dictate the trends on the local market, as well, can be seen on all the market more

08.27.2015

Polish fashion retailer answear.com is getting ready to enter Romania where it will compete with both specialist fashion retailers like Zara and H&M and with the major online retailers, such as market more

08.17.2015

International giants like Inditex (Zara), H&M and C&A, dominate the European fashion retail market, as well as the Romanian market, where their sales reach almost 1.7 billion lei (EUR384 million). more

08.17.2015

Romanian executive Cristian Chipaila was put in charge of the global expansion of COS, the second most important brand of Swedish fashion retailer H&M by number of stores, at the beginning of this more

07.30.2015

Four young Bucharest entrepreneurs bet on low-priced apparel and footwear retail eight years ago. The four of them now own a network of 161 stores in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, which more

07.16.2015

Online orders of apparel, footwear and other lifestyle products reached about EUR100 million in Romania last year. Overall electronic commerce market stood at about EUR1.1 billion and is expected to more

07.13.2015

Swedish retailer H&M has expanded its network to 41 stores in Romania in four years from entering the market and continues expansion because there is potential to double it, says Ralf Wein, the German more

06.30.2015

Spanish-held Inditex group, which operates via seven fashion brands in Romania, came close to EUR200 million (872.6 million lei) revenue last year, an increase of 12% without opening a single store. more

06.26.2015

British fashion brand New Look, introduced in Romania as a franchise, has decided to leave about four years after the opening of its first store in the country. more

06.23.2015

The financial crisis and the aggressive expansion of foreign brands, such as Zara, H&M and Deichmann, swept the local apparel and footwear market and the first to go down were the Romanian retailers, more

05.13.2015

The Stefanel brand, which started fashion retail in Romania at the beginning of the nineties when other international names were not even considering expansion to this country, is negotiating the more

05.12.2015

Mihai Cioltea, the Romanian executive who supervised the expansion of Inditex (Zara) in Romania, has taken the position of head of expansion for the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan with the group. more

05.11.2015

Sweden’s Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) sales in Romania went past half a billion lei in 2014, after four years of fast-paced development, reaching 529.5 million lei (EUR119 million). more

05.05.2015

On an increasingly competitive market, fashion retailers have to adjust their portfolios and bring to Romania divisions they used to ‘save’ for stronger more developed markets until recently. more

04.30.2015

Romanian online retailer eMAG.ro will buy online retailer Fashion Days, both companies being owned by Naspers group, the company said in a statement Thursday. more

04.14.2015

Almost 10,000 women are working on Sweden’s fashion giant H&M’s ‘made in Romania” clothes. The retailer started manufacturing operations in Romania about two decades ago and now has 10 direct more

04.06.2015

After having been part of the team that established H&M’s presence in Romania for three years, Cristian Chipaila decided to go to China to supervise the development of all the other brands of the more

04.02.2015

Belgian developer Liebrecht & wooD has refurbished one of the three units of Fashion House outlet in retail park West Park, Bucharest, following EUR600,000 investments, the company said Thursday. more