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

08.03.2014

Nissa, a Romanian family business in the fashion industry that began more than a decade ago, set out to have 90% of its sales generated by foreign markets in five years, compared with one third now. more

07.30.2014

Companies Confectii Integrate Moldova and Exclusiv Comp through which Romanian fashion designer Irina Schrotter manages her retail business and textile production registered relatively constant more

07.30.2014

Swedish group H&M, present in Romania with the brand of the same name since the spring of 2011, is also bringing Cos brand locally this autumn, being in talks with shopping centers in northern more

07.24.2014

Romania’s fashion market is dominated by international brands such as Zara, H&M or C&A, which, with several tens of stores, generate revenue of tens of million euros each. At the opposite end, more

07.22.2014

Polish fashion retailer LPP Fashion is launching the Mohito brand on the Romanian market and plans to open the first Mohito store on July 30, in shopping center AFI Ploiesti. more

06.10.2014

H&M became the strongest fashion brand in Romania by revenue last year, overshooting Zara. Thus, the Swedish-owned company ended 2013 with revenue of 381.5 million lei (EUR86.3 million), while the more

05.30.2014

Brioche Doree, the café brand brought in Romania by the head and shareholders of group Kenvelo together with a French partner, is going to add at least five units in shopping centers like AFI more

05.27.2014

Italy’s underwear retailer Calzedonia, present in Romania with a 6-store network under this brand, owns an underwear manufacturing plant in Arad (western Romania). The plant, Aries Textiles, boasts more

05.22.2014

Polish fashion retailer LPP Fashion, which operates the Cropp Town, House and Reserved brands in Romania, posted 27.3 million zlotys (EUR6.5 million) revenue in this country last year, up 8% in zlotys more

05.16.2014

United Arab Emirates group Peeraj entered Romania’s fashion market eight years ago and now holds over 40 stores under nine brands in a franchise system, including Geox or Swarovski, and reached more

05.13.2014

Location, location, location - why Romania? more

05.05.2014

Germany’s retailer Peek&Cloppenburg, present in Romania with three stores, ended 2013 with revenue of 125 million lei (EUR28 million), up 21% from 2012. more

04.22.2014

British group Debenhams is in talks to return to the Romanian market under the umbrella of the franchisee of Bulgaria, one year after Romanian businessman Octavian Radu closed down the last two stores more