23 oct 2014

“At the moment local output, both of Romanian producers and of foreign investors, regains its well-deserved position in the local economy, then Romania will achieve economic growth of 5%,” said more

21 oct 2014

Consumption of private label soft drinks has neared 20 liters per capita in Romania, accounting for 15% of overall consumption of such products, eight times higher than the 2008 level. In the same more

16 oct 2014

Romanians spend around EUR300 annually on packaged food, twice as little as Croatians or Estonians, who rank first in Eastern Europe, reveals a ZF survey based on data provided by Euromonitor company more

26 sep 2014

The 3,061 companies operating in Romania’s food, beverage and tobacco wholesale sector in 2013 generated overall revenue worth 21 billion lei (EUR4.75 billion), down 6% in lei on the year. more

25 sep 2014

This summer’s beer consumption in Romania was weaker than last year’s and there’s little time left until yearend for the first half's declines to be recouped, says Onno Rombouts, president of more

16 sep 2014

BDG Import, the importer of whisky brand Jack Daniel’s, and Prodal ’94, the producer of Stalinskaya vodka, estimate revenue increases of 8-10% and 3%, respectively, for this year, in a market more

12 sep 2014

Tymbark Maspex, a major player on Romania’s soft drinks market, expects revenue to rise by 10% this year, taking further the upward trend of the past six years, according to company information. more

12 sep 2014

Strauss Coffee, the world’s fifth largest producer of green coffee that owns Doncafe brand locally, is open to further acquisitions in Romania after it sealed the most important deal of recent years more

10 sep 2014

Mondelez Romania, the local subsidiary of the US group of the same name, which has chocolate brands Poiana and Milka, as well as Jacobs coffee in its portfolio, saw its revenue rise by 10% in 2013, to more

3 sep 2014

Alba-based Supremia Group, a food ingredient producer controlled by entrepreneur Levente Bara, Suceava-based Betty Ice, the second largest producer of ice-cream owned by Vasile Armenean, and Sonimpex more

28 aug 2014

Ziarul Financiar tracked the prices of ten core items in Romanians' baskets over the past six years and analyzed their trend in the May 2008-August 2014 period, when the consumer price index rose by more

22 aug 2014

Chipita Romania, the domestic subsidiary of the Greek group of the same name that owns the brands 7Days and Finetti, was in 2013 the largest confectionery exporter from Romania, according to a ZF more

15 aug 2014

The introduction of the EUR0.07 excise duty per liter of fuel in April affected not only carriers but also companies in the bottled water industry, which had to raise prices or swallow most of the more

14 aug 2014

The tax evasion that reached about EUR23 billion last year, or 16.2% of the gross domestic product, is robbing Romania of 5,000 kilometers of highways that it could build with this money in one year more

12 aug 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

7 aug 2014

Macromex, the largest distributor of frozen products on the local market, exports up to 50% of the production of the bakery plant in Campia Turzii inaugurated in partnership with Belgium’s bakery more

6 aug 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

1 aug 2014

Romaqua Group, the producer of mineral water brand Borsec, became the biggest employer in the drinks industry, beating international names such as Coca-Cola HBC or Ursus Breweries, reveals a ZF more

29 iul 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

29 iul 2014

Fabrica de Lapte Brasov, the producer of Olympus and Oly dairy, expects revenue of EUR70 million this year, after its first-half figures were in line with forecasts, said Ilias Pliatsikas, general more

25 iul 2014

Sales of spirits on the Romanian seaside revolve around EUR30 million during the summer season, with preferences and expenses differing on northern beaches from southern ones, reveals a ZF survey more

24 iul 2014

La Fantana and Cumpana, the two largest players on Romania’s watercooler market, hold together over 90% of this segment, which secures water through 126,000 units in office spaces or homes, reveals more

23 iul 2014

Mondelez Romania, the owner of the Poiana chocolate brand, got the approval of the National Environment Protection Authority via Dorin Dinca, regional expansion manager of Lidl Discount, to “take more

22 iul 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

18 iul 2014

In 2008, the group built in Bihor by brothers Ioan and Viorel Micula generated almost one billion euros in revenue. In 2013, two of the largest companies part of the entrepreneurs’ food empire, more