11.30.2015

Footwear retailer Benvenuti of Romanian entrepreneur Dan Pavel, posted more than 60 million lei (EUR13.5 million) revenue in January-September, an increase of 3% on the year-ago period. more

11.16.2015

Romanians spend about EUR200 million a year on buying apparel and footwear online or 5% of the total market, ZF has calculated based on market research company Euromonitor data. The percentage may be more

09.29.2015

The bankruptcy of footwear retailer Leonardo paved the way for the expansion of CCC, a brand of Polish entrepreneur Dariusz Milek, and for Germany’s Deichmann. more

09.21.2015

Footwear and accessories manufacturer and retailer Musette held by the Batlan family will grow to 30 stores on nine markets by yearend, following the opening of new stores in Munich and Sibiu. It will more

09.18.2015

Petru Chiriac, the entrepreneur who founded footwear retailer Il Passo more than fifteen years ago, says the footwear market has been flooded by cheap product stores in the past few years, as Romanian more

09.08.2015

Footwear manufacturer Denis based in Suceava (NE Romania) expects 15 million sales in 2015, as estimated at the beginning of the year, 43% higher than in 2014, the company said. more

08.26.2015

Timisoara-based footwear manufacturer Guban, which has been in business for almost eight decades, wants to have a network of its own stores covering all the major cities of the country in five years more

08.20.2015

Footwear retailer Benvenuti might grow to 60 - 70 stores in five years, from the current 46, says owner Dan Paval. more

07.30.2015

Four young Bucharest entrepreneurs bet on low-priced apparel and footwear retail eight years ago. The four of them now own a network of 161 stores in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, which 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

06.05.2015

Polish discount retailer Pepco, which sells low-price apparel, footwear and accessories, has grown to 13 stores in the central and southern regions of Romania, less than one year from entering this more

04.20.2015

The financial crisis and the arrival of many foreign companies changed the balance of power in the local footwear retail sector, with German-held Deichmann taking the top spot after the 2013 more

03.06.2015

Footwear retailer Benvenuti, held by local entrepreneur Dan Pavel, has invested EUR2.3 million in building its own headquarters in Oradea. The investment comes after a time of constant growth of the more

02.24.2015

Romania ranks 14th in the global exporters ranking and operates 1.1% of total footwear exports. Romanian plants send $1.3 billion worth of footwear abroad, a value almost four times higher than that more

02.06.2015

Romania’s 500 largest exporters in 2014 include almost 80 fabric, apparel and footwear manufacturers whose cumulated revenue stood at about 7 billion lei (EUR1.6 billion) in 2013, according to the 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

01.22.2015

Poland’s footwear retailer CCC will open 12-14 new stores this year on the local market, at the pace it decided on when it entered Romania in the summer of 2012. Thus, the network will reach around more

12.05.2014

Footwear brand Ecco Shoes has reached 22 stores in Romania after five openings this year alone. Expansion on the one hand and the rising sales in already existing stores will drive the company’s more

11.20.2014

Local footwear store network Il Passo plans to expand abroad after having reached 15 units locally and also open a production unit, Petru Chiriac, the company’s owner told ZF Live. more

10.02.2014

Germany’s ara Shoes, which makes more than EUR50 million worth of shoes in Romania, does not have its own retail stores on this market, relying instead on more than 160 partner stores, the company more

09.19.2014

Romania’s exports of footwear and other leather goods reached EUR2 billion in 2013, with 40% of the sum being generated by exports of local original brands, according to data provided by Sfera more

05.14.2014

Leonardo, a Romanian company with a two-decade history, in 2013 lost the leading position in Romanian footwear retail to German-held Deichmann that entered Romania in 2007 with a similar business more

05.05.2014

Around seven out of ten pairs of shoes imported by Romanians are made of plastic, rubber or textiles, with just one out of five pairs made of leather. Thus, Romanians mainly wear “made in China” more

04.16.2014

Leonardo, Romania’s top footwear retailer by 2012 revenue, closed down the store in AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping center, one of Romania’s major shopping poles. The space is now occupied by more

03.28.2014

The majority stakeholder in Otter footwear group, Filip Schwartz, who owns over 50 stores, brought a new brand on the market, Call it Spring, selling shoes, bags and accessories to medium-income young more