12.12.2024

German retailer Kaufland has inaugurated on Dec. 12 its second store in the town of Calarasi, reaching a network of 187 hypermarkets in Romania. more

07.11.2024

French-held retailer Carrefour is opening two hypermarkets in Constanta, following the integration and rebranding of several Cora stores. more

04.04.2024

Evopack, which produces cardboard and paper packaging in a plant in Piatra-Neamt and which delivers to McDonald’s KFC, Spartan and Mesopotamia restaurant chains, is tapping into a new client niche more

06.29.2022

Cora retailer, the smallest player in the local food retail field by the number of stores and turnover, is remodeling its hypermarkets of Bucharest and one of Constanta, downsizing them and more

02.02.2022

Germany’s retailer Kaufland is opening a hypermarket in Turnu Magurele (Teleorman County), reaching a total 149 hypermarkets in Romania. more

09.07.2021

Capital city Bucharest, the largest and most developed urban center in Romania, contributes 50% to the business of Cora store chain in Romania, namely, the hypermarket business considering that only more

02.28.2017

Bogdan Chiritoiu, head of the Romanian Competition Council, said Tuesday that the law on the sale of 51% Romanian products in hypermarkets should not be abandoned although the European Commission more

07.19.2016

The law according to which Romanian hypermarkets will have to sell at least 51% Romanian products can curb imports, an aspect banned by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), more

07.11.2016

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has promulgated the law according to which Romanian hypermarkets will have to sell at least 51% Romanian products, the Presidential Administration said in a statement more

04.03.2015

The company’s revenue rose by 4.5% last year, to 1.7 billion lei, below the 7% consumption increase. more

03.24.2015

Marco Hobl, 39, was appointed this month at the helm of Kaufland Romania, the leading retailer on the Romanian market. more

02.17.2015

Hypermarket chains control almost 30% of Romania’s game, console and toy market, valued at 880 million lei (almost EUR200 million) in 2014, a bigger share even than that of specialized stores, a more

12.10.2014

Hypermarket chains, which have covered the map of Bucharest with 31 units, project sales of almost one billion lei in Bucharest alone in the context where the last month of the year brings sales as more

06.25.2014

French group Carrefour is expanding further on the hypermarket segment in Romania and is set to open two large stores in southern Bucharest and in Targu-Jiu in the next three months. more

06.15.2014

Over 75% of hypermarkets opened before 2008 use analog security cameras, providing less details compared with modern IP cameras, thus, a person’s face is harder to identify in case of theft, more

05.19.2014

So far, 25 hypermarkets have been built in Bucharest, operated by Carrefour, Auchan, Kaufland and Cora networks. In the next two years, their number could go to 36 or even 40 units, in the wake of more

04.07.2014

Petrom’s gas station network of more than 500 units, with revenue of around 15 billion lei (EUR3.4 billion) in 2012, is Romania’s biggest retailer, followed at some distance by Rompetrol gas more

03.24.2014

The former PIC hypermarkets in Craiova, Calarasi and Braila, as well as a plot of land in Blejoi, Prahova county, will be put up for sale again on April 25, by judicial administrator more

09.06.2013

Foreign retail chains are trying to boost revenue at the end of the year relying on the renewed consumer spending appetite around the holiday season after a slow summer. more

05.07.2013

Romanian modern retail is dominated by foreign networks, which boast annual sales of EUR8.5-EUR9 billion. No local entrepreneur manages to compete against Kaufland, Lidl and Carrefour, and none have more

03.25.2013

Romanian insolvent hypermarket network PIC has been put up for sale by its legal administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery Services (PwC) after businessman Nicolae Sarcina quit plans to more

11.08.2012

Retailer Cora Romania, which has a nine-hypermarket network, will open its first mall on the local market in Constanta (southeastern Romania) next June, following a EUR70 million investment. more

11.02.2012

Romanians spent 197 lei (EUR44) every time they shopped in a hypermarket last year. Hypermarkets remain consumers’ favorites when it comes to a high shopping volume, the so-called weekend shopping. more

10.23.2012

Half of the food products sold in Romanian hypermarkets come from domestic output and this share should further increase, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin told Mediafax Talks about Brewing and more

12.14.2011

French-Belgian retailer Louis Delhaize, which owns the most profitable stores on the Romanian market, says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved a EUR210 million loan to fund more