01.19.2016

More than 40 new stores opened in six of the largest malls in Bucharest in the fourth quarter of 2015, trying to compete over a more than EUR600 million yearly shopping budget, according to ZF more

01.06.2016

Discount store operator Rewe Romania, which has two brands on the local market – Penny Market and XXL Mega Discount, wants to open 20 to 25 stores annually over the next few years for a total of more

01.05.2016

Modern retailers opened almost 200 new stores in 2015, keeping the same expansion pace as in the last few years. They mostly opened smaller stores, that is supermarkets and convenience stores. more

12.23.2015

Supermarket chain Mega Image will be opening Thursday its fourth Concept Store in capital Bucharest (in northern Baneasa area), being the retailer’s largest store in Romania. more

12.21.2015

Noriel Group, a toy retailer, distributor and manufacturer, wants to reach 100 stores in Romania in five years, twice as many as it has today and three times higher revenue, EUR100 million. more

12.14.2015

German retailer Lidl, part of German group Lidl & Schwartz, will be opening a new store on December 21, in Suceava, reaching 192 units in Romania. more

12.03.2015

Sporting goods retailer Decathlon on Thursday said it will open in Targu Jiu, on December 11, its 16th store in Romania. more

12.01.2015

The second Debenhams store in Romania will open in Plaza Romania mall in the southwestern Bucharest district Drumul Taberei on December 3, instead of September as initially planned. more

11.30.2015

Belgian-held retailer Mega Image, which operates several store formats and brands in Romania, has grown to 456 stores in the country, after having opened 46 supermarkets and convenience stores since more

11.26.2015

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin will be re-opening next week under its own brand, in central city of Sibiu, one of the 15 stores it had acquired from Austrian bauMax in 2014. more

11.17.2015

The closing of the 75 brick-and-mortar stores of computer and electronics retailer Domo gives a chance for expansion to its direct competitors Flanco and Altex, which will take over more than ten more

11.16.2015

Computer and electronics retailer Domo, one of the largest in its business, will close all its brick-and-mortar stores to focus only on online operations, market sources say. more

10.27.2015

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin will open a store in Cluj-Napoca on November 6, remodeling a former bauMax store, after buying the network in 2014. more

10.15.2015

Metro Cash&Carry and Selgros, two of the largest companies in Romania by revenue (EUR1 billion and EUR635 million), are about to end the fourth year without any new stores. more

10.14.2015

Do-it-yourself retailer Hornbach Romania opened Wednesday its sixth store in Romania, in central city of Sibiu, following investments of nearly EUR12 million, the company said in a statement. more

10.02.2015

Kika Romania, a company that operates a furniture and home décor store in the western side of Bucharest, will open three or four stores in the city and the rest of the country by the end of next more

10.01.2015

Romanian cosmetics producer Farmec Cluj-Napoca has opened in Barcelona, in association with a local partner, its first store in Spain, located in an area highly accessible for people, close to more

09.28.2015

Profi supermarket chain held by Polish private equity firm Enterprise Investors will continue to expand in each of the next few years at a rate of at least 100 stores, so in five years it should grow more

09.16.2015

German-held do-it-yourself retailer Hornbach will be opening its sixth store in Romania this fall, in central city of Sibiu. more

09.10.2015

Electronics retailer Altex has reopened the store in shopping center Iulius Mall Iasi, following investments worth EUR500,000 in a concept that allows customers to test the equipment, the company said more

09.04.2015

German retailer Lidl will be opening a new store Thursday in Pipera Plaza in Voluntari, near Bucharest, its 188th unit in Romania. more

09.01.2015

Jewelry store chain Teilor of Romanian entrepreneur Florin Enache wants to expand to five or six stores in Bucharest in the next two years and two in each of the major cities of the country with a more

09.01.2015

US premium brand Michael Kors is getting ready to open its second store in Romania, this time in the Baneasa Shopping City in northern Bucharest. more

08.26.2015

Timisoara-based footwear manufacturer Guban, which has been in business for almost eight decades, wants to have a network of its own stores covering all the major cities of the country in five years more

07.13.2015

Swedish retailer H&M has expanded its network to 41 stores in Romania in four years from entering the market and continues expansion because there is potential to double it, says Ralf Wein, the German more