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

04.09.2014

Inditex, the owner of Zara brand and the world’s largest fashion retailer, has contracts with around 100 plants in Romania, with Romanian producers accounting for 25% in the group’s total number more

03.24.2014

Duo Design company started store furniture production three years ago and now this is the company’s main development line. more

03.17.2014

Over the past decade, Romania has attracted tens of brands, led by Zara and H&M, which came here and opened hundreds of stores to gain a widening share of the 60-65 lei (about 15 euro) a Romanian more

03.14.2014

A Romanian spends EUR6.5 per month on clothes and footwear, almost two times less than a Hungarian and five times less than a Russian. Romania is as a matter of fact the country where the population more

03.13.2014

Greek-held Marinopoulos has closed down all Gap stores of Romania. The last to be shut down was the one of Baneasa Shopping City, marking the exit from the Romanian market of the US brand, the more

02.07.2014

Teodora Burz has spent the last eight years traveling to and from Romania, Italy, China and Turkey, where she has worked for foreign fashion brands. more

02.04.2014

Luxury brand Hugo Boss, present in Romania via a local franchisee, is set to shut down the two mono-brand stores in this country by late February, as the contract is drawing to an end and sales are more

02.04.2014

German-held fashion retailer Takko, present in Romania since the autumn of 2007, wants to open six stores this year, keeping up the expansion pace of 2013. more

12.31.2013

The Romanian fashion market has attracted new names in each of the past few years - H&M came in 2011 and TimeOut, while 2013 saw names such as Mim, Roberto Bravo, and Dolce & Gabbana enter the more

12.16.2013

Over 1,300 employees, 700,000 items of clothing made each month for international retailers such as Top Shop, Primark and Debenhams, two plants, one sample center and turnover of over EUR40 million - more

12.12.2013

Turkish fashion retailer Koton, which has four stores in Bucharest, has bought a 1,200 square meter building in the city’s Old Town for EUR4.5 million from an Irish businessman, sources close to the more

10.10.2013

Adriano Mengotti, who first came to Romania ten years ago, in the early days of the luxury market, says sales of his multibrand Mengotti store on Calea Victoriei street in central Bucharest started more