03.04.2022

Carrefour Group, active in grocery retail sector, has signed a partnership with Rompetrol Downstream, which operates a network of more than 1,000 filling stations in Romania, to open a number of more

02.08.2022

KooKoo Grocery, an online store engrossed in fast delivery from its own warehouses, in one or two hours, in Bucharest and Ilfov County, has raised EUR500,000 in a pre-seed funding round from Blueberry more

12.29.2021

Annabella Fabrica de Conserve Raureni, a company part of Annabella group owned by Mutu family of Valcea county, plans to take over Fabka Group, in line with information provided by the Competition more

05.27.2021

Entrepreneur-owned grocery retail businesses ended the first year of the pandemic with growth of 10% to more than 20%. more

05.20.2021

The European grocery retail real estate market has remained resilient in the face of economic uncertainty, as the COVID-19 pandemic provided new opportunities for growth and increased investor more

03.16.2021

The fight for the top position in the modern grocery retail in Romania is becoming tighter, and the biggest actors are growing constantly and becoming bigger. The most powerful five groups – Schwarz more

12.23.2020

Seven of the modern grocery retail chains in Romania have opened new stores in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In all, 421 new hypermarkets, supermarkets, modern convenience and discount stores more

12.17.2020

Local modern retail stores, about 3,500 in various formats, are valued at a little less than EUR10 billion (46 billion lei) in 2020, 21% higher than in 2019. more

11.16.2020

Annabella is the most powerful entrepreneurial business in grocery retail in Romania, having posted 317.5 million lei sales last year, an increase of 8% on the previous year. more

11.09.2020

Sales of local supermarkets, i.e. of those part of chains held by local entrepreneurs, rose 17% in May-October, which is the fastest rate of all analyzed by market research company RetailZoom. more

10.29.2020

Online sales of groceries and personal and household care products could reach EUR1 billion by 2025 or 4% of the total market, ZF has calculated from the estimates of the Bringo delivery platform of more

08.18.2020

Discount retail chains – Lidl, Penny and Supeco, now account for one fifth of the modern retail sales, after their sales went up twice faster than the market on average last year. more

03.06.2020

The last two decades, which saw the financial crisis that started in 2009 and the fast-paced development of foreign networks, led to a significant change of the grocery retail. more

02.14.2020

Grocery retail will reach almost EUR25 billion in 2024, but the growth pace of the market is expected to slow down as of this year. more

02.11.2020

Foreign grocery retailers will be spending almost EUR1 billion this year to open 400 new stores, develop new logistics facilities, online commerce and go digital. more

01.29.2020

The ranking of the largest players in the grocery retail in Romania has radically changed in the past decade, with three new names climbing among the top five. The three are Profi and Mega Image more

12.23.2019

Grocery retail, a EUR20 billion market a year was the stage of deals between foreign and local actors. Foreign chains continued to cement their position with new openings from scratch of several more

12.12.2019

The nine most valuable modern retail networks in Romania are valued at 37.8 billion lei or almost EUR8 billion, ZF has calculated. more

09.02.2019

French-held retailer Carrefour, which has been operating in Romania since 2001, increased its sales by 7.6% in the first half of 2019 and if the growth continues at the same rate, the group’s total more

12.13.2018

The local fashion market put at some 15 billion lei (EUR3.21 billion) has become increasingly attractive to low price retailers like Pepco (Poland), Kik (Germany), and Miniso (Japan). The latter two more

11.21.2018

The three most powerful retailers in Romania – Kaufland, Carrefour Romania and Lidl, have increased their first half sales at a rate of 10% to 20%. more

08.28.2018

The top 20 local grocery retail businesses include nine that are held by local entrepreneurs, which posted more than 100 million lei (EUR22 million) revenue last year. more

08.22.2018

The average net salaries the top five international retailers by revenue – Kaufland, Carrefour, Lidl, Auchan and Mega Image, pay vary from 2.100 lei (EUR452) to 3,100 lei (EUR668). more

04.24.2018

The top five grocery retailers by estimated market share in Romania are Kaufland, Carrefour, Lidl, Mega Image and Profi this year, data supplied by market research company IGD show. more

03.09.2018

German-held hypermarket chain Kaufland, the leader of grocery retail in Romania, ended last year with 10.1 billion lei (over EUR2 billion) revenue, 4% higher than in 2016, ZF has found. more