12.07.2021

Over the past decade, Romania’s food industry has seen several tens of plants close down, but no investment from scratch, of over EUR50 million, carried out by a multinational in a production unit. more

12.06.2021

Store chain Profi, owned by investment fund Mid Europa Partners, in the first 11 months of this year opened 154 new stores, with most of them, around half, under the Loco format destined to rural more

12.03.2021

Valcea-based healthy food producer SanoVita, founded in 1995 by three entrepreneurs, ended the first nine months of this year with 12% higher revenues and expects to hit RON85 million turnover in more

12.02.2021

Health food delivery startup LifeBox is moving operations to a new production facility in the Apaca Complex in western Bucharest and has allocated a total investment of EUR900,000 for it. more

11.18.2021

Alexandra Copos de Prada, the daughter of businessman George Copos and Cristiana Copos, settled in London but involved in the development of store network ANA Pan, says the pandemic has brought a lot more

11.15.2021

E-commerce in 2020 came to account for around 1% in total food and consumer goods sales in Romania. Against a market of around EUR20 billion, online sales can be put at some EUR200 million in 2020, more

10.13.2021

Scandia Food, the largest canned food companies in Romania, is entering a new market segment by acquiring a factory manufacturing frozen meat-based food products, which will be incorporated under the more

10.06.2021

Romania's food retail sector reached EUR19 billion in 2020, rising further despite the pandemic. The upward trend will continue, with the sector expected to grow on average 5% per year and reach EUR25 more

09.28.2021

Solina Romania, the former Supremia Grup, one of Romania’s biggest makers of food ingredients and spices, is set to finalize in October a EUR17 million investment in building a plant from scratch in more

09.09.2021

In Romania, the online food trade accounts for just 1% of the overall fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, per the latest data from Ziarul Financiar (ZF), but online FMCG sales grow fast along more

08.23.2021

The price of bread in Romania is almost half the European average, more exactly at 56%, in line with Eurostat data. more

08.11.2021

German-held retailer Tedi, operating on the non-food segment, is readying to enter the Romanian market, already having 30 rental contracts signed, according to ZF sources. more

08.10.2021

The ranking of the 20 largest employers in the Romanian economy was dominated by retailers last year, in line with Confidas.ro data compiled by Ziarul Financiar. more

08.03.2021

Delivery platforms have in recent years permanently and definitively changed the way the domestic food retail works, and the plans of companies such as Foodpanda or Glovo do not stop here. more

07.09.2021

The restaurant market went down to less than RON10 billion in 2020 compared with RON14 billion in 2019. The fast-food segment accounted for some 20% to 25%. more

07.07.2021

Food Union, a Latvian food manufacturing and wholesale group, has reached a holding of 96% in Romanian ice cream maker Alpin 57 Lux based in Alba county, Confidas.ro data showed. more

07.02.2021

US giant Oracle has acquired Romanian online food ordering start-up Gloria Food, funded in 2013 by German entrepreneur Oliver Auerbach and Romanian entrepreneur Mihai Anghel. more

07.01.2021

The restaurant, cafe and bar market reached RON13.2 billion at the end of 2020, 30% lower than in 2019. These are the first official data about the impact of the pandemic on the bar and restaurant more

06.30.2021

The eMAG group, the largest online retailer in Romania and one of the top actors in the region, is preparing its online version of a supermarket, several food industry executives told ZF. more

06.21.2021

The pet food and related product market in Romania overshot the RON3 billion mark for the first time, gaining 23% in 2020, a year when people spent more time at home and many decided to get a pet. more

06.14.2021

Romanian startup LifeBox, founded by Radu Balaceanu, Florin Scarlat, and Lukasz Kuzniar, is expanding outside Romania and enters the healthy food delivery in Hungary under the brand FrissBox. more

04.26.2021

Sales in the food retail sector are estimated at around RON130 billion in 2020 compared with sales of RON118 billion in 2019, according to a KeysFin analysis. more

03.05.2021

Restaurant group Sphera Franchise group, which holds the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell franchises in Romania, and is developing the KFC brand in the Republic of Moldova and Italy, saw its online orders more

12.17.2020

Sales of non-food retailers returned to the level before the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), growing on average 4%, considering that consumption habits more

12.01.2020

Romanian consumers spend about 650 million lei on organic food (or 1.2% of the entire spending on food in the country), ZF has calculated from the data supplied by market research company Retail Zoom. more