07.09.2015

The first month of the summer was better for the ice cream industry compared with the same time in 2014 because of the warmer weather and the cut of the VAT on foods from 24% to 9% as of June 1, says more

05.07.2015

Betty Ice, one of the leading local ice cream manufacturers, expects almost 92 million lei (EUR21 million) revenue this year, an increase of 5% on the previous year, according to the data the company more

02.25.2015

Romanian entrepreneur Dan Minulescu, who built Macromex group, sold ten of his companies to a group in Denmark and sealed a partnership with it for the distribution of La Strada ice-cream in northern more

01.01.2015

The year 2014 saw new investments in sweets plants in Romania and no significant mergers and acquisitions. The chocolate market grew this year, while ice cream sales suffered because of the bad more

11.26.2014

Starting next year, Unilever will produce Napoca ice-cream in Bulgaria as FrieslandCampina has reshuffled its activity and there is no more room for Unilever production in the company’s plants, says more

10.31.2014

The Unilever group, which has food and non-food product manufacturing and distribution operations in Romania, will move Napoca ice cream production to a plant abroad next year. more

10.28.2014

The local soft drinks market, dominated by international names such as Coca-Cola or Pepsi, in 2013 dropped by around 4% in volume and 2014 is not set to be a better year for the industry because of more

08.12.2014

Ice cream producer Alpin 57 Lux, owned by the Istrate family in Alba Iulia, is considering exporting its products in two or three years, after having covered Romania with more than 20,000 points of more

08.06.2014

Alpin 57Lux, a major player on Romania’s ice-cream market, generates 40% of its sales in southern Romania (Muntenia, including Bucharest), while Transylvania, the company’s native market, accounts more

07.29.2014

Betty Ice, one of Romania’s biggest ice-cream producers, is testing a home delivery project in Bucharest, in the context in which the company is already present in stores countrywide and has almost more

07.22.2014

The mostly rainy weather in the first half of the year caused a decline by as much as 20% in the sales of ice cream compared with the year-ago period, says Vasile Armenean, owner of Betty Ice, one of more

07.07.2014

Each Romanian consumer bought 22 ice creams in stores last year and paid EUR11 (about 50 lei) for them. The best-selling ice cream types were the impulse buys (cones and popsicles), according to a ZF more

05.30.2014

Ice cream producer Betty Ice based in Suceava, northern Romania, and owned by Romanian entrepreneur Vasile Armenean, has budgeted 2.5 million lei (almost EUR570,000) exports in 2014, an increase of more

05.28.2014

Unilever South Central Europe registered revenue growth of around 5% last year, and the Romanian market boasted the best performance in the group of eight countries in the region. more

05.27.2014

The five largest ice-cream producers in Romania generated overall revenue of above EUR70 million in 2013, almost half of the total value of the local ice-cream market, and had more than 2,000 more

05.23.2014

JOE wafer and ice-cream brand, one of the best-selling ones on Romania’s confectionery market, generates 10% of Nestle Romania's revenue, the largest player on Romania’s confectionery and coffee more

07.31.2013

The ice cream market is suffering from the continued purchasing power decline in 2013 and the lower temperatures in June and the first part of July did not help, either, says ice cream maker Alpin 57 more

07.11.2013

A Romanian eats 16 ice cream cones (1.6 liters) a year, almost four times less than a German and five times less than a Scandinavian, according to Unilever, which sells Algida and Napoca ice cream more

06.20.2013

The 2013 sales of Romania’s largest ice cream producer Betty Ice will depend, as usual, on the weather, after last year they grew in single digits, says owner Vasile Armenean. more

12.12.2012

Macromex, the largest local distributor of frozen products, has entered the ice cream segment by opening the La Strada mini-ice cream parlor in Mega Image in Bucharest’s Vitan mall. more

11.22.2012

Vasile Armenean, owner of ice cream producer Betty Ice, one of the largest on the Romanian market, has bought a building in Bucharest’s historic downtown where he will set up an ice cream parlor more

02.27.2012

An ice bridge broke causing a ship to sink on the Danube Sunday night, near Chiciu in Calarasi county, and the crew managed to save itself at the last minute, regional river navigation authority chief more

09.12.2011

Nestle, leader on the Romanian ice cream market, says a new demand trend is arousing: products that can be eaten at home are gaining ground, as customers are beginning to see ice cream as a dessert more