07.15.2013

German supermarket chain Billa, part of the Rewe retail group, will open Tuesday its third supermarket in Brasov, central Romania, reaching a national network of 73 stores, the retailer said in a more

06.06.2013

German supermarket chain Billa, part of the Rewe retail group, will start building a new store in Brasov, central romania, after it received its building permit earlier this week. more

05.30.2013

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, will open a 1,000-sqm store in Bucharest’s shopping center Cocor, the mall’s owner, Cocor SA (COCR.RO), said in a statement Thursday. more

04.24.2013

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, will open a new store Friday in Constanta, southeastern Romania, expanding its local network to 72 units. more

04.24.2013

The 12 competitors in modern retail have put more than 1,000 stores on Romania’s map, and some of them have lately tried to expand to rural areas, even though still close to big cities. more

12.10.2012

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, opened a new store Monday, in Cluj-Napoca, bringing its Romanian network to 71 units, the company said Monday. more

12.04.2012

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, will open two more stores Thursday, in Mangalia and Slatina, expanding its Romanian network to 70 units, the company said in a statement Tuesday. more

11.27.2012

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, will open two stores Thursday in capital city Bucharest and in southeastern city of Constanta, expanding its Romanian network to 68 units, the company more

09.07.2012

German retailer Billa will end the year with 71 stores in Romania, ten more than at the beginning of the year. It will also continue to expand at the same pace or even faster in the years to come more

07.02.2012

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, will open one store in the central town of Targu-Mures, expanding the network to 64 units, the company said in a statement Monday. more

03.28.2012

The big winners of the local retail market, where price has been the most important factor in buying decisions over the last three years, are the private labels of the major retailers, an almost more

03.27.2012

Sorana Georgia, manager of supermarket chain Billa, says 2012 will be the best year for the company she runs both in terms of turnover and in terms of the number of openings. Billa’s estimates come more

03.23.2012

With construction just begun and delivery scheduled for 18 months from now, the Promenada mall in northern Bucharest has already signed Billa, Flanco, Intersport, Inditex, C&A and H&M among its more

02.22.2012

German retailer Billa, part of the Rewe group, will open at least ten stores this year in Romania, and its investment budget, which includes remodeling of older stores, stands at EUR20 million to more

11.30.2011

The local retail market, which had a little over 88,000 stores at the end of last year, has lost some 6,500 stores over the past four years in traditional retail alone. Although communist-era kiosks more

11.24.2011

Retailers have mixed opinions about the evolution of consumption next year, but most believe there will be a change in the structure of consumption, with Romanians set to abandon premium products and more

06.03.2011

Sorana Georgia, 46, was named chief executive officer of Billa supermarket network, part of Germany’s Rewe, becoming thus the first Romanian woman to run the operations of a top ten food retailer on more

06.02.2011

Billa, the largest supermarket chain on the Romanian market in terms of turnover, part of the Rewe group, ended last year with a EUR290 million turnover, close to the 2009 level. more

04.18.2011

Retailer Billa invested more than EUR3 million in remodeling two Romanian stores, in Bucharest and Timisoara, increasing the fresh food section by more than 70%, Billa Romania chief operating officer more