03.30.2016

French-held hypermarket chain Auchan ended last year with 4.44 billion lei (EUR1 billion) revenue, therefore joining the exclusive club of companies having overshot this revenue mark in Romania. more

12.03.2015

Ionut Ardeleanu, the new general manager of Auchan Romania, has joined the exclusive club of Romanian managers in charge of billion-euro companies in this country more

12.02.2015

French retailer Auchan has put Ionut Ardeleanu in charge of its operations in Romania. more

10.05.2015

South-African investment fund New Europe Property Investments (NEPI) has raised EUR130 million from shareholders, double than EUR65 million initially planned for the share capital hike, and part of more

09.03.2015

French retailer Auchan completed on September 1 the last stage of the acquisition and remodeling into Auchan of the 20 former Real hypermarkets in Romania. more

08.27.2015

The largest property owner on the local real estate market, NEPI, has bought Auchan Titan Shopping Center from Germany’s Aberdeen Asset Management in a EUR86 million deal. more

07.10.2015

French-held Auchan group, which operates a 33-hypermarket network in Romania, is considering expansion into supermarket segment in this country, retail sector sources say. more

05.07.2015

Auchan Romania, one of the largest local retailers, posted 3.7 billion lei (EUR834 million) in sales last year, an increase of 64% on 2013, but much lower than the EUR1 billion target set for 2014, more

03.26.2015

Auchan Romania is opening its 33rd hypermarket in the country Friday, in the Coresi shopping center in Brasov, developed by the French retailer's real estate division Immochan. more

03.19.2015

Bucharest alone contributes 35% to 45% of the revenue of the local retail industry, which makes it the most powerful market and hottest place to be for store chains. more

03.09.2015

French retailer Auchan paid EUR257 million to acquire 20 of German Metro's Real hypermarkets in Romania, including the spaces in which a part of corresponding stores and shopping galleries operate, more

03.02.2015

Retailer Auchan Romania, which has a network of 32 hypermarkets, raised its share capital by EUR30 million in January 2015, to EUR299.2 million, by issuing new shares, according to a decision of the more

01.20.2015

Retailer Auchan Romania, which has a network of 32 hypermarkets, raised its share capital by EUR60 million in December 2014, to EUR269.2 million, according to a decision of the company's shareholder more

01.08.2015

Romania's Competition Council has authorized French retailer Auchan to take over 12 hypermarkets and shopping galleries it operates, in one of the largest retail deals in Central Europe in 2014, more

12.17.2014

Rolast (RLS), active in the sector of lease and sublease of real estate properties, sold to French retailer Auchan, for EUR20 million, a shopping center in the city of Pitesti which hosts hypermarket more

12.10.2014

French retailer Auchan expects its newest hypermarket in Bucharest, Auchan Drumul Taberei, opened Wednesday, will reach annual sales of more than EUR100 million in a few years, said Auchan Romania more

12.08.2014

Auchan has completed the takeover of 12 shopping galleries near its hypermarkets in the third quarter, following a EUR261 million deal, one of the largest deals on the Central European retail market more

12.08.2014

French-held retailer Auchan said it will be opening a hypermarket in Bucharest’s Drumul Taberei district on Wednesday, December 10, its 7th in the capital city and the 32th in Romania. more

11.18.2014

The number of customers of the 20 Real hypermarkets that Auchan bought rose 10% to 30%, says Frederic Bellon, the executive put in charge of the local operations of Auchan this spring. Also, the more

11.12.2014

French group Auchan saw its revenue in Romania go up by 83% in the first half of this year, to almost 1.9 billion lei (EUR424 million) following the integration of the 20 Real hypermarkets, according more

10.10.2014

Retailers have become Bucharest’s biggest employers after hypermarkets have replaced former decrepit plants. As a matter of fact, Bucharest has no plant left employing 1,000 people. more

07.16.2014

Shopping center owners find it hard to fill 130 stores as the number of retailers boasting nationwide coverage is small and a large part of them are not expanding at the moment, says Tatian Diaconu, more

07.10.2014

The French Mulliez family, which has built a retail empire with about EUR80 billion yearly sales worldwide, has invested about one billion euros in acquisitions and development in Romania over the more

07.07.2014

Retailer Auchan could launch a new hypermarket format on the Romanian market to cover small towns, a format it is currently expanding in Russia as Nasha Raduga and which has been successful in China. more

07.03.2014

French-held retailer Auchan has reached an agreement to buy 12 hypermarkets and shopping galleries in Romania located in Bucharest, Timisoara and other eight cities. The deal amounts to about EUR280 more