12.09.2014

Romanian brewer Bergenbier, a unit of Canada’s Molson Coors group, posted 1% decline in revenue to 219 million lei (EUR49 million) in the first half. more

11.19.2014

Beer sales in Romania fell 7% in the first nine months of 2014, continuing the downward trend of 2013 and of the first half of the year, due to unfavorable weather. Not even the soccer World Cup was more

11.10.2014

The economic crisis brought a radical change in the consumption habits in Romania's beer industry, with sales of beer bottled in PET containers (which give consumers more beer for less money) going up more

11.07.2014

Romania has just 18 breweries left, covering consumption of 16.2 million hectoliters, with three production units being shut down during the crisis, according to the latest Brewers of Europe report. 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

10.07.2014

The 9% decrease of the local beer market in the first six months of the year triggered losses worth 60 million lei (EUR13.6 million) to the state budget, Romanian Brewers Association announced more

09.25.2014

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

09.22.2014

Can Pack Romania, the only Bucharest plant manufacturing aluminum cans for beer and soda, with clients such as Heineken, Bergenbier, SABMiller or Tuborg, ended the first 8 months of this year with more

09.12.2014

Three Romanian entrepreneurs, including eMag owner Iulian Stanciu, invested around EUR3 million in Beraria H, a beer garden open Friday in the Herastrau Park in Bucharest. more

09.01.2014

Beer sales fell by 8% to 7.8 million hectoliters (785 million liters) in the first six months of this year, taking further last year’s downward trend, in an industry that depends on football more

08.20.2014

Dutch brewer Heineken NV Wednesday said its beer volumes in Romania declined in the high-single digits in the first six months of 2014 from a year earlier, hurt by weak market demand and poor weather. more

08.14.2014

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

08.12.2014

Romanian executive Vladimir Vava was appointed vice-president of sales of Baltika Breweries this year, the largest brewer in Russia, whose annual sales stand at more than EUR1.5 billion or 30 million more

07.29.2014

Ahead of the summer months, beer sales in Romania fell 20% in May, when they should have normally started to pick up, being the worst decline since May 2005. 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

05.28.2014

Heineken Romania brewer in 2013 posted net profit of 159.9 million lei (EUR36.2 million), down almost 14% from 2012. This is the sharpest profit slump in the past three years for Heineken, Romania’s 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

05.15.2014

The contracts brewers have with restaurants and bars include clauses that are curbing competition, according to a recent report of the Competition Council. Information included in the report may 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

04.08.2014

Romania's four small beer producers - Bermas Suceava, Martens Galaţi, Imex Satu Mare and Albrau Onesti -have focused on producing private labels for large retailers to stay afloat on a market more

03.31.2014

Heineken Romania reported sales worth 1.12 billion lei (EUR254 million) in 2013, down 5% on the year, on a market contracting by approximately 10%. more

03.25.2014

Beer consumption in Romania fell 10% on the year to 16.3 million hectoliters in 2013, according to the Romanian Brewers Association. more

03.12.2014

Heineken Romania sold the former Grivita brewery in downtown Bucharest, at the end of 2013, to a group of real estate investors, among whom Ionut Dumitrescu, the founder of real estate consultancy more

03.06.2014

Beer sales contracted by 4% in 2013, marking the first year of decline after the market managed to grow in 2011 and 2012 more

01.23.2014

Romania ranks sixth in Europe in terms of beer consumption, with 90 liters per year per capita, but the profile market is on downward trend, according to the Romanian Brewers Association. more