5 feb 2014

The price of the main 15 foods in the market basket used for the ZF index has dropped 2% since last fall, as a result of the increasingly fierce competition among retailers trying to get new customers more

3 feb 2014

Finding technicians (electricians, mechanics) in Romania is really difficult and there are no more schools to train young people for such trades, says Ilias Pliatsikas who runs Fabrica de Lapte more

31 ian 2014

Dan Timotin, chief financial officer of Coca-Cola HBC Romania, the leader of the soft drinks market in this country, has been promoted to commercial finance director of the parent company in Greece, more

30 ian 2014

A cut of the value added tax for dairy products would push shelf prices down close to those charged by black market sellers and farmers and drive consumption back up, says Jan Willem Kivits, the Dutch more

28 ian 2014

The bars with the highest sales in Bucharest’s Old Town each make more than EUR1 million revenue a year, three or four times more than the average. more

24 ian 2014

The year 2013 was a year of revenue growth, though modest, because the rainy summer and low consumer income affected the entire soft drinks market, says Levent Yuksel, the executive who runs the local more

16 ian 2014

Customers’ preferences are shifting from brands to ‘no name’ products even in premium locations, says Andrei Ghegoiu, general manager of consumer goods distributor Heinrig Distribution. more

31 dec 2013

Aqua Carpatica, the mineral water brand created by businessman Jean Valvis in 2010, has come to compete against traditional brands such as Borsec and Dorna in the past few years. more

28 dec 2013

The year 2013 in the fast-moving consumer goods industry of Romania saw two entrepreneurs score a victory against the government for cancellation of fiscal incentives, an important investment more

27 dec 2013

The winter holidays represent the best time of the year for sales of alcoholic drinks, considering the profile market was affected lately by the increase in excise duties and raw material prices, said more

24 dec 2013

Romanian consumers have changed their spending habits when it comes to Christmas decorations in the last few years, which are now often impulse buys, says Andreea Mihai, Carrefour Romania's marketing more

23 dec 2013

Nestle Romania Chief Executive Officer Herve de Froment said Romania is the place to be when it comes to the revolution of modern retail and e-commerce, because what took Western European countries more

19 dec 2013

Nawaf Salameh, founder and CEO of spirits producer Alexandrion Grup Romania, thinks Romania's insolvency law is the biggest mistake the country has made over the past years. more

5 dec 2013

PepsiCo’s Vitarom Impex sold EUR1.8 million worth of Valea Izvoarelor natural mineral water bottled in PepsiCo’s plant in Covasna, central Romania, last year. more

29 nov 2013

The biggest challenge companies and governments are facing now is boosting consumer confidence, says Stephane Batoux, general manager of Coca-Cola HBC Romania and Moldova, the largest soft drinks more

29 nov 2013

Romania’s annual consumption of premium coffee (ground coffee and beans, excluding instant coffee), in restaurants, outdoor bars and coffee shops amounts to $50 million-$65 million (EUR44 million to more

27 nov 2013

Several kilometers southeast of Bucharest, in Popesti-Leordeni, PepsiCo operates a three-hectare production facility staffed by 288 people. Its eight production lines make Lay’s chips, Star puffs more

6 nov 2013

Iulia Dobrin, the entrepreneur who more than twenty years ago launched luxury lingerie brand I.D. Sarrieri, decided to relocate her luxury multibrand The Place from Calea Dorobantilor to Calea more

24 oct 2013

Sales of store brand butter exceeded sales of butter produced under famous brands like Albalact, Friesland and Lactalis between August 2012 and July 2013, according to market research company Nielsen. more

23 oct 2013

Cafea Fortuna, the largest coffee producer in Romania owned by Constantin Moroianu, manages to cope with the fierce competition of famous brands like Jacobs and Nescafe, due to the customers of small more

14 oct 2013

Coca-Cola, Borsec and Frutti Fresh were the best-selling soft drink brands last year (including bottled mineral water). The three hold an over 28% share of the market by volume, shows a ZF analysis more

20 sep 2013

Vodka consumption in Romania exceeded 20 million liters in 2012, up 8.4% on the year, according to a ZF analysis. more

20 sep 2013

Kandia-Dulce, the largest local chocolate producer controlled by Austrian Meinl family, exports 5% to 10% of its products to Balkan countries and to countries with large Romanian communities like more

16 sep 2013

Romaqua, one of the largest Romanian-held companies in the fast moving consumer goods sector, is giving the lead to borrowing in lei, after refinancing an about 500 million lei (EUR112 million) taken more

11 sep 2013

Romania’s trade balance on agrifood products is still running a deficit despite the fact that the country’s agriculture sector was allotted funds of EUR10 billion from the European Union over the more