04.08.2014

Kaufland, the biggest player in Romania’s food retail, and businessman Ionut Dumitrescu, the founder of Eurisko consultancy (the current CBRE Romania), have started pulling down the former Grivita more

03.27.2014

Nine international groups, holding 12 modern retail networks overall, are still present on the Romanian market, after the departure, in recent years, of Turkey’s FIBA (with G’market stores), more

03.19.2014

Pilos, a private label of German-held retailer Lidl, and K-Classic, a private label of hypermarket chain Kaufland, accounted for 29% of the packaged milk market together in 2013, which ZF estimates at more

02.20.2014

Food retailer Kaufland Romania opened Thursday a new hypermarket in Oradea, the second in the northwestern city, thus reachig 91 units countrywide. more

02.11.2014

German-held group Schwarz, which operates Kaufland discount hypermarket chain and Lidl discount stores, generated revenue of over EUR2.3 billion last year in Romania, thus controlling 13% of the more

01.23.2014

Food retailer Kaufland Romania will start the construction of a hypermarket in Vatra Dornei (northeastern Romania) this summer, on a 1.3-hectare land bought from timber producer Regnafor for 3.1 more

01.14.2014

Czech-based InterCora group, the developer of more than 30 stores for the Kaufland chain in Romania, is working on the demolition of the former Munplast plastic products plant in Bucharest, which it more

12.30.2013

Kaufland Romania will continue its expansion at the same rate in 2014 after opening eight new hypermarkets this year. more

12.20.2013

International modern retail chains expanded their networks at a fast pace in 2013, for the third year in a row, opening 255 stores and hiring 4,000 staff. more

12.06.2013

Nine out of 12 modern retail chains present in Romania feature in this year’s ranking of the 100 most valuable companies in Romania, with an aggregated value of EUR2.9 billion. more

11.29.2013

Retailer Kaufland Romania has opened a new hypermarket in Bucharest, its fifth in the city and 88th in the country. more

10.16.2013

Kaufland, the largest food retailer on the Romanian market, plans to open seven to nine stores and targets investments of EUR50 million up to EUR90 million in 2014. more

10.11.2013

German group Kaufland will build a hypermarket in Bucurestii Noi district of Bucharest, an area so far less covered by large-format stores in the north-west of the capital. Kaufland has a turnover of more

08.07.2013

Kaufland, the largest food retailer on the Romanian market, reached around 12,000 employees in Romania in 2012, according to Trade Registry data centralized by ZF. more

07.30.2013

Kaufland Romania will open its third hypermarket in Ploiesti, southern Romania, mid-August, and plans to open three or four more stores this year, with an average investment of EUR6-9 million per more

07.15.2013

Kaufland, a retailer that operates 85 discount hypermarkets in Romania, has consolidated its market leader position and ended 2012 with revenues of 6.44 billion lei (EUR1.46 billion), up 15% in lei on more

07.01.2013

The leading retailer in Romania, Kaufland, plans to increase the share of private label products in the total sales from 18% to 30% in five years. more

06.18.2013

Kaufland, the leading retailer by sales in Romania, will speed up its expansion process in Bucharest in the next few years where it only has four of its 85 stores in the country. more

06.12.2013

The 100 largest importers account for almost 40% of the total imports or more than EUR21 billion euros, according to the National Statistics Institute. more

06.06.2013

Wafers, cold cuts and the like that retailer Lidl imported last year weighed more heavily in the trade balance than the turbines CEZ bought for its wind farm in Fantanele (SE Romania), the largest in 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

05.03.2013

Eight modern retailers hired more than 5,500 people last year, according to ZF data and the top employers were hypermarket chains Auchan and Kaufland, followed by supermarket network Profi. Each of more

04.26.2013

Retailer Kaufland Romania said it opened its third hypermarket in the city of Galati (south-eastern Romania) last week. more

04.24.2013

The 12 competitors in modern retail have put more than 1,000 stores on Romania’s map, and some of them have lately tried to expand to rural areas, even though still close to big cities. more

04.12.2013

Kaufland, the largest retailer in Romania, plans to open stores in the local malls after having preferred standalone stores or stores in retail parks, sources close to the company say. more