08.01.2024

Merlin Bevrages, a producer of soft drinks under brands such as Vitamin Aqua and Pop Cola, is launching a new product range in the ice tea category, which it will enter with Plafar brand. more

05.20.2024

Consumer goods giant Unilever has invested EUR12 million in its ice cream factory in Suceava over the last four years and plans to invest another EUR4 million in 2024 and 2025. more

12.29.2023

Adela Margean, national sales manager at Ice Dyp Balas SRL, a Timis-based ice cream producer, says 2024 is likely to bring a sales decline because of the new tax changes and the VAT hike to 19% for more

10.31.2022

Romanian ice cream producer Ice Dyp Balas from Timis County, controlled by Vasile and Maria Balas, posted more than RON50.6 million (EUR10.3 million) revenue in 2021, up 4.6% compared with the more

12.06.2021

Mihaela Cuturescu was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Romanian ice cream producer Alpin 57 Lux, headquartered in Sebes (Alba County), in November 2021. more

08.04.2021

Romania’s ice cream production decreased by more than 17% to merely 34.02 million liters last year from 41.36 million liters in 2019, Eurostat data show. The country was behind Finland and more

04.05.2021

French-held Smart Wood group, which makes wooden coffee stirrers and ice cream sticks, has almost completed its investment in a EUR10 million plant in Onesti, Bacau County. more

12.09.2020

Romanian ice cream producer Ice Dyp in Timis County is entering the craft ice cream market after having bought Ati Cream plant in Harghita County from Romanian entrepreneurs. The officials of the more

09.22.2020

Italian artisanal ice cream brand La Romana, brought to Romania by telecom retailer Arsis, is starting to expand in franchise system, and the first gelato shop was opened within AFI Cotroceni shopping more

09.21.2020

Latvian food production and distribution group Food Union, which owns 80% in ice cream producer Alpin 57 Lux in Alba County, says there has been a change of mentality and behavior due to the COVID-19 more

07.14.2020

Ana Consulea, a confectioner and the founder of the Zexe Braserie brand, has recently launched an ice cream shop in Bucharest’s King Michael (Herastrau) Park area, following a total investment of more

06.15.2020

Anglo-Dutch group Unilever has appointed Iustina Haler-Monoranu as general manager of the Betty Ice ice cream factory in Suceava, northeast Romania. more

05.11.2020

The ice cream division of Unilever, a group which also sells cleaning, personal care or other foods and beverages, has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but its officials are optimistic about more

04.28.2020

Entrepreneur Vasile Armenean, known for having founded and sold ice cream producer Betty Ice to Unilever, says he does not rule out a potential return to the food industry, considering the COVID-19 more

03.31.2020

Ice cream manufacturer Top Gel Prod ended 2019 with 74.5 million lei (EUR15.7 million) revenue, slightly lower than in the previous year, Finance Ministry data show. The company posted RON16.2 milion more

02.27.2020

The first Mövenpick ice cream parlour in Romania, a Swiss ice cream brand brought to Romania in franchise system, has been inaugurated within Baneasa Shopping City. The owners of the business aim to more

09.18.2019

Betty Ice, the largest ice cream producer in Romania, ended 2018 with 146 million lei (more than EUR31 million) revenue, up 15% compared with 2017, Finance Ministry data show. more

08.21.2019

Ice cream manufacturer Ice Dyp Balas in Carpinis, Timis County, is investing EUR5.7 million in a new plant in the same town to double production capacity. more

06.14.2019

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04.05.2019

Romanian consumers spend EUR200 million on ice cream a year, and the market is controlled by the major players. There are seven major players in Romania getting most of the sales, i.e. 85% to 90% of more

03.27.2019

Romanian-German-held Cremeria Emilia ended 2018 with EUR4 million revenue from nine locations after three years in business. more

02.27.2019

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch group that bought ice cream manufacturer Betty Ice from entrepreneur Vasile Armenean, has started investments in the plant in Suceava to enable the facility to make other more

11.06.2018

Romania’s ice cream market, put at EUR200 million, has undergone a series of significant changes over the past two decades, from entry of new players to acquisitions among the companies already more

11.01.2018

Unilever announced it has completed the acquisition of Romanian ice cream manufacturer Betty Ice, following the two companies' agreement signed in January. The company said it has received antitrust more

10.12.2018

Unilever has agreed to reduce presence of ice cream brands in local traditional retail stores to get the greenlight from Romania’s competition watchdog for its takeover of ice cream producer Betty more