03.31.2015

The trend of pubs and restaurants closing across Europe as a result of lifestyle changes and smoking bans was accelerated by the challenging economic conditions. The trend has been visible in recent more

12.18.2014

Ursus Breweries, the largest local brewer, posted 708 million lei (EUR158 million) sales in the first half of this year, 4% lower than in the year-earlier period, according to publicly available data. more

10.09.2014

Romania’s beer market will witness a single-digit contraction rate in 2014 considering the first half trend (minus 9%) and the rainy summer, but on the long-term it is set to resume growth, more

07.24.2014

Aged between 34 and 46, these four Romanians are handling marketing budgets worth tens of million euros of foreign producers in Romania’s beer industry. more

05.22.2014

Beer sales declined by 6% in the first three months of this year, continuing the downward trend of 2013, according to ZF calculations based on National Statistics Institute data. more

04.10.2014

The Competition Council sees the Romanian beer industry, a market of over EUR1.8 billion annually, as an oligopoly with major entrance barriers, as Heineken and Ursus, the biggest players, hold over more

03.20.2014

The 140-year old Grivita brewery of Bucharest will become a real estate project, a former sweets plant in Brasov was acquired by Germany’s retailer Lidl and is to be turned into a store and hotel, more

12.02.2013

London-headquartered brewer SABMiller has appointed Igor Tikhonov as the new president of Ursus Breweries, starting January 1, 2014. more

11.22.2013

Alan Clark, CEO of giant SABMiller, which owns beer producer Ursus Breweries on the Romanian market, says Romania’s strategy during the years of economic crisis focused on the value of sales, which more

10.22.2013

Andrew Highcock, who has been serving as Ursus Breweries president over the past two years, will take over as president of Kompania Piwowarska, Poland, part of group SABMiller. more

10.14.2013

Romania ranks sixth in Europe in terms of beer consumption, with 89 l/capita, shows a ZF analysis based on data from the Brewers of Europe Association for 2011. more

05.14.2013

Romanian meat producer and distributor Carmolimp has opened a new restaurant in central city of Brasov, called Beraria Ciucas, following an investment of EUR500,000. more

02.07.2012

Ursus Breweries, the largest local company on the beer market by sales in 2010, has appointed Romanian Mihai Barsan as vice-president of marketing. more

10.21.2011

Ursus Breweries, the largest company on the Romanian beer market, recorded an 8% decline in sales volumes in April-September of 2011 against the similar period of 2010. more

10.03.2011

Gary Whitlie, president of Ursus Breweries, the largest beer producer by turnover, will step down in November after just one year and four months, while withdrawing from professional activity after 27 more

07.22.2011

Ursus Breweries saw its sale volumes fall by 3% in April-June 2011 compared to the same period of last year, according to a report of parent group SABMiller. more

07.07.2011

Romanian beer maker Ursus Breweries, part of the SABMiller group, on Thursday said it has resumed beer production at its Cluj-Napoca plant, using a mini-plant set up in the former unit, which was more

05.20.2011

Gary Whitlie, chairman of Ursus Breweries, the biggest player in the Romanian beer industry, is waiting to open in the next few weeks a mini-brewery on the location of a plant that the company closed more