05.04.2015

The private labels of the major retail chains have reached 22% of the total sales of dairy products, putting more and more pressure on the established brands such as Zuzu, Napolact, LaDorna and more

04.22.2015

The Romanian dairy market will not see major acquisitions considering major players have sufficiently big production capacities to grow on their own, said Jan Willem Kivits, who has run for the three more

04.21.2015

A group of 16 farmers of Arad invested EUR2 million in a dairy plant in the same county, which now produces over ten sorts of cheese for Romania’s biggest modern retailers. Cris Sib Lacto plant of more

03.24.2015

Giampaolo Manzonetto, the Italian who has been in charge of the local operations of juice producer Parmalat for the last 12 years, has been appointed general manager of the main companies the Lactalis more

03.05.2015

Romania's local association of dairy and milk producers APRIL called on the ministries of Finance and Agriculture and the Parliament on Thursday to include milk and dairy products among food items for more

02.09.2015

Romanian cattle farmers send 900,000 tons of milk to processors, 50% lower than allowed by the European Union to deliver so far. more

01.15.2015

Romania imported milk and dairy products worth EUR221 million in the first ten months of last year, but exported twice as less, reveals a ZF analysis based on data provided by the National Statistics more

01.08.2015

Brasov-based dairy producer Prodlacta generated revenue worth over 41 million lei (EUR9.3 million) in 2014, up around 60% on the year. For 2015, the company plans to further bolster sales and go into more

12.16.2014

The Romanian dairy market, with annual sales of more than 4.4 billion lei (EUR1 billion), showed signs of a rebound this year, as consumption went up 1% in the first half. more

12.05.2014

The losses of FrieslandCampina Romania and Danone Romania, two of the largest dairy companies in the country, more than doubled in the first half, while revenue went down, continuing last year’s more

11.24.2014

A lower VAT on dairy products, meat and other foods would have a positive impact on the local economy, since Romanians spend as much as 50% of their income on food, says Cornel Caramizaru, sales more

10.09.2014

Romania has the highest milk volume sold in markets, mostly bottled in PET containers, as well as the highest share of this segment in the total in all the 28 economies of the European Union. more

09.10.2014

Brasov-based dairy producer Prodlacta, controlled by Moldovan businessman Vladimir Jardan, is set to export yoghurts to a store network of Germany and plans to tap other foreign markets as well. At more

07.29.2014

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

07.16.2014

At the exit way from Brasov to Sighisoara, in Halchiu, a “trio” of giants that built plants from scratch arises. This includes Greek-held Olympus, which produces cheese, yoghurts or milk under more

07.11.2014

Dorna Lactate and Dorna SA, the two largest companies in the LaDorna dairy group, acquired from businessman Jean Valvis by France’s Lactalis in 2008, had 640 employees between them last year, more more

06.16.2014

This is the right moment to purchase a plant in Romania as there are many dairy industry companies struggling to survive, says Tzafrir Granat, the manager who has run the Romanian operations of more

06.13.2014

The top ten dairy companies in Romania had revenues of EUR580 million last year, an increase of 8% from 2012, but most of them did not have profit margins beyond 5%, reveals a ZF analysis of the data more

06.04.2014

Mueller Dairy Romania, the local branch of the German group by the same name, expects turnover to go up by 20% to 62 million lei (about EUR14 million) this year, after starting a partnership with a more

05.16.2014

Buying ‘special’ cows and reinventing collective farms are Romanian farmers' solutions to drive the farmgate milk prices up, given the competitive imbalance between milk producers and processors. more

05.14.2014

The bet on Romania, this is how the strategy of Albalact (ALBZ.RO), the largest business in the Romanian milk industry can be resumed. From sales of EUR2.5 million in the early 2000s, the company more

05.09.2014

Turkey’s dairy producer Sutas, which in 2013 acquired the former Tnuva plant of Popesti Leordeni, 9 km away from Bucharest, postpones the opening of the production unit until next year. more

05.08.2014

Napolact, one of the oldest dairy brands on the Romanian market, has reached a network of seven stores in Cluj county, after having launched a new store concept with a 100-sqm area including a coffee more

05.06.2014

The largest 20 Romanian cattle owners have between them 16,000 head and see EUR115 million revenue a year together, according to a ZF analysis based on data from Agency for Payments and Intervention more

04.25.2014

German-held Hochland, Dutch FrieslandCampina and French group Lactalis generated together in 2013 almost half of sales of cheese products in retail, where consumption revolves around EUR280 million more