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

03.31.2015

Romanian online retailer eMAG.ro started selling clothing and accessories with the launch of its fashion category and its own fashion brand RELEASE, and expects sales of EUR7.5 million in the first more

03.27.2015

British retailer Debenhams has returned to the Romanian market, under the same, franchise, system, after an almost two-year break, with a store in Vitan Mall. The new franchisee wants the average cash more

03.10.2015

UK’s Debenhams returns to Romania after a two-year hiatus by opening a store in Bucuresti Mall and its new franchisee plans to open two new stores a year. more

03.10.2015

Spanish-held Inditex is set to open ten stores in Romania in 2015 in Bucharest’s Mega Mall and Brasov’s Coresi shopping centers and thus reach 108 units under seven brands, including Zara, more

03.09.2015

The Brioche Doree coffee shop chain brought in Romania by the shareholders and the boss of the fashion retailer Kenvelo wants to open six coffee shops this year. It is looking at both shopping centers more

02.05.2015

Swedish fashion retailer H&M works with 25 textile factories in Romania, most of which in the eastern and southern parts of the country, in the poorest counties such as Braila, Vrancea, Teleorman and more

02.04.2015

Aridon company of the Republic of Moldova, which owns the franchises of fashion brands Levi’s and Celio* in Romania, plans to expand on the local market and wants to reach 16 stores in three years more

01.29.2015

Men’s fashion brand Louis Purple will open its first mono-brand stores in Romania this spring. The company plans to open four such stores, after having sold its products only through the Ego Men’s more

01.23.2015

Polish fashion and footwear retail is gaining ground in Romania, with five such groups operating directly or via franchisees locally and nine brands available in 49 mono-brand or multi-brand stores. more

01.08.2015

Commercial space demand will continue to grow in 2015 in shopping centers, retail parks and shopping malls, as fashion retailers such as LPP, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Pepco and CCC announced more

10.28.2014

U.S. luxury brand Guess will open a store in the Fashion House Outlet Centre in western Bucharest, in November, Fashion House Group managing director Brendon O’Reilly told MEDIAFAX Tuesday. more

09.30.2014

Italy’s Stefanel, the first foreign fashion brand that bet on the Romanian market in the early ‘90s, says it has 5-6 production partners in Romania, with around 20% of clothes sold at group level more