09.13.2023

Romania’s food retail landscape is undergoing steady changes and in the past year this has again become visible as almost all formats are losing ground to discounters, which are increasingly favored more

01.27.2022

Modern food retailers in Romania target some 600 new store openings and relocations in 2022, which means the universe of local hypermarkets, supermarkets, modern convenience stores, discount and cash more

12.06.2021

Store chain Profi, owned by investment fund Mid Europa Partners, in the first 11 months of this year opened 154 new stores, with most of them, around half, under the Loco format destined to rural more

11.15.2021

E-commerce in 2020 came to account for around 1% in total food and consumer goods sales in Romania. Against a market of around EUR20 billion, online sales can be put at some EUR200 million in 2020, more

10.06.2021

Romania's food retail sector reached EUR19 billion in 2020, rising further despite the pandemic. The upward trend will continue, with the sector expected to grow on average 5% per year and reach EUR25 more

08.11.2021

German-held retailer Tedi, operating on the non-food segment, is readying to enter the Romanian market, already having 30 rental contracts signed, according to ZF sources. more

08.03.2021

Delivery platforms have in recent years permanently and definitively changed the way the domestic food retail works, and the plans of companies such as Foodpanda or Glovo do not stop here. more

04.26.2021

Sales in the food retail sector are estimated at around RON130 billion in 2020 compared with sales of RON118 billion in 2019, according to a KeysFin analysis. more

10.28.2020

Supermarket and hypermarket chains are the lifeline of the companies in the food and drink service industry as the number of COVID-19 cases is rising and restaurants, cafés and bars have to comply more

12.16.2019

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12.17.2018

Romanians allot the biggest share of income to food and beverages among EU nations and this reflects in the turnover of food retailers, which are set to exceed the record level of RON100B this year. more

02.10.2017

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02.09.2017

Romania’s Competition Council has approved the transaction whereby MEP Retail Investments SRL takes over retail chain Profi Rom Food SRL. more

09.29.2015

Private labels now account for one fifth of the food market, but these products that retailers developed to take on established brands have yet to become important on such segments as beverages and more

08.10.2015

Fish and fish products company Ocean Fish, controlled by Republic of Moldova businessman Ilie Busuioc, is considering expanding into retail by developing its own store chain. more

03.03.2015

In 2014, the almost 2,000 filling stations of Romania generated sales of 40.9 billion lei (EUR9.3 billion), including station store sales, around 4% higher than in 2013. The slightly declining volumes more

12.17.2014

Romanian food retail, a market of almost 1,500 stores and annual sales of RON35-40 billion (EUR8-9 billion), has in the past year undergone a series of changes that reconfigured players’ positions. more

11.06.2014

Almost 13,000 companies and over 30,000 jobs were wiped out from the map of food retail between 2008 and 2013. During the same period, modern retail area expanded by around 77%, while the number of more

10.31.2014

The financial crisis and the aggressive expansion of foreign networks toppled the first generation of entrepreneurs in Romania’s food retail, but a new generation is trying to enter the race against more

10.06.2014

Romanian Business Consult (RBC), the biggest local IT solution integrator for food and retail companies, expects its revenue to grow by around 10% this year, after expanding to new sectors, such as more

09.25.2014

Kaufland, the biggest player in Romanian retail, is set to add 7,200 square meters to its warehouse of Turda (Cluj county), the company’s second logistics center after the one in Ploiesti, and is more

09.05.2014

Romanians annually spend around EUR1 billion in mobile and agro-food marketplaces, namely 7% of the money they spend in food retail, where hypermarket and supermarket chains rule, with an over 40% more

12.19.2013

Romania's retail market, which returned to growth in 2012, will witness a growth rate of over 5% in upcoming years and is expected to reach 130 billion lei (EUR29 billion) by 2015. more

11.14.2013

The automotive retail, real estate agencies and food retail are Romania’s most competitive markets, while the cement, notaries public and natural gas production sectors are the least competitive, more

03.06.2012

Consumption showed the first signs of rebound in the last quarter of last year and pursued an even faster rise in 2012. The almost 10% increase came from food retail, which was helped by the bad more