03.12.2025

A new private equity fund, Trinity Investments Management, is making inroads into the CEE financial investor market, exclusively targeting food industry companies in the region. The main markets it more

02.11.2025

Belgium’s United Petfood giant, one of the world's largest pet food producers, with plants in many European countries and in the US, is investing EUR35 million in a Romanian production facility in more

12.16.2024

Consumption hit an all-time high in 2024 in Romania and the market continues to present major growth opportunities should current tendencies maintain, believe Colliers consultants, as the local market more

11.27.2024

Healthy food company SanoVita expects revenue to reach RON90 million by the end of 2024, an increase of 10% on 2023, its officials say. more

11.07.2024

Romanian entrepreneur Ferenc Korponay, known for founding, developing and then selling the Maravet business, which operates in the animal products sector, has bought the canning factory in Oiejdea, more

10.22.2024

Romania's Competition Council is submitting for public debate the second set of commitments proposed by Delhaize “The Lion” Nederland B.V. (Mega Image) to address competition concerns identified more

10.01.2024

Catalin Gheorghe, the entrepreneur who controls Tomcat Hospitality, which includes concepts such as Treevi Pizza, Sagakura and Fabrica de Ciorbe, will open a food hall with over 50 restaurants and more

09.17.2024

Hungary-based startup Munch, which provides an application designed to help curb food waste and entered the Romanian market this spring, is expanding operations in the country to Iasi, where it more

07.15.2024

Cartofisserie, a Romanian-held fast-food restaurant chain established by the founders of the Delaco dairy brand, ended 2023 with RON100 million sales, an increase of 50% on the previous year, Finance more

05.23.2024

Golden Food Snacks, the producer of the ELMAS seeds, has borrowed RON2.8 million from Romanian state-run lender CEC Bank, as per a stock market report. more

05.23.2024

Romania has become the 15th largest market for Italian agri-food products worldwide, being outranked only by Poland and Greece, in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). more

05.17.2024

Quick service restaurant chain Hesburger is opening its first restaurant in Romania in Ramnicu Valcea and plans to open ten in all in its first year in business on this market, having allocated more more

03.20.2024

Romanian fast food chain Fryday, established by Suceava entrepreneur Lucian Florea, has grown to nine restaurants and ended last year with RON28.6 million (EUR5.7 million) revenue, double as much as more

01.22.2024

Romania and Bulgaria recorded the lowest prices for consumer goods and services among European Union Member States in 2022, being 41% below the EU average, in line with data from the country's more

01.10.2024

Alternative investment fund PAG Private Equity, focused on the Asia-Pacific area, has taken over the majority stake in Food Union Europe, a Lithuanian-held company that also owns Romanian ice cream more

01.08.2024

Andrei Ursulescu, general manager of Scandia Food, a major player in the local food industry, says turnover budgeted for 2024 is similar to that of 2023 as the company expects local consumption to more

11.03.2023

Food wholesaler Nordic Food has brought to Romania the famous US burger Beyond Meat and other plant-based meat products in the company’s portfolio. more

11.02.2023

Horia Cardos, CEO of Agroland, a Romanian retail, agriculture and food entrepreneurial group, says the next planned investments are in the construction of the liquid egg plant of Giurgiu county, in more

09.27.2023

Devero Impex posted RON16.5 million (EUR3.3 million) revenue in 2022, up 16.3% on the previous year’s RON14.1 million (EUR2.8 million), ZF has calculated from Finance Ministry data. more

09.13.2023

Romania’s food retail landscape is undergoing steady changes and in the past year this has again become visible as almost all formats are losing ground to discounters, which are increasingly favored more

08.22.2023

Romanian-held fast-food chain Fryday will grow to eight restaurants by the end of November, in only four years after opening. Its founder, Suceava entrepreneur Lucian Florea expects EUR5 million more

04.13.2023

Prefera Foods of entrepreneur Raul Ciurtin has sold Prefera Trading SRL to the Morad Group. Prefera Trading, previously 100% owned by Prefera Foods, holds a number of food brands and handles their more

04.07.2023

More than 100,000 foreigners work in Romania, with most of them coming from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. more

03.21.2023

Paul Balsan, general manager of the charcuterie unit of Scandia Food group, says 2023 investments target the maintenance, logistics and IT infrastructure areas. Their overall value will top half a more

02.13.2023

Kaufland, one of the biggest actors in modern retail in Romania, is among the top exporters of food in 11 categories, to be precise, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INS) more