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

08.10.2021

The ranking of the 20 largest employers in the Romanian economy was dominated by retailers last year, in line with Confidas.ro data compiled by Ziarul Financiar. 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

07.09.2021

The restaurant market went down to less than RON10 billion in 2020 compared with RON14 billion in 2019. The fast-food segment accounted for some 20% to 25%. more

07.07.2021

Food Union, a Latvian food manufacturing and wholesale group, has reached a holding of 96% in Romanian ice cream maker Alpin 57 Lux based in Alba county, Confidas.ro data showed. more

07.02.2021

US giant Oracle has acquired Romanian online food ordering start-up Gloria Food, funded in 2013 by German entrepreneur Oliver Auerbach and Romanian entrepreneur Mihai Anghel. more

07.01.2021

The restaurant, cafe and bar market reached RON13.2 billion at the end of 2020, 30% lower than in 2019. These are the first official data about the impact of the pandemic on the bar and restaurant more

06.30.2021

The eMAG group, the largest online retailer in Romania and one of the top actors in the region, is preparing its online version of a supermarket, several food industry executives told ZF. more

06.21.2021

The pet food and related product market in Romania overshot the RON3 billion mark for the first time, gaining 23% in 2020, a year when people spent more time at home and many decided to get a pet. more

06.14.2021

Romanian startup LifeBox, founded by Radu Balaceanu, Florin Scarlat, and Lukasz Kuzniar, is expanding outside Romania and enters the healthy food delivery in Hungary under the brand FrissBox. 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

03.05.2021

Restaurant group Sphera Franchise group, which holds the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell franchises in Romania, and is developing the KFC brand in the Republic of Moldova and Italy, saw its online orders more

12.17.2020

Sales of non-food retailers returned to the level before the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), growing on average 4%, considering that consumption habits more

12.01.2020

Romanian consumers spend about 650 million lei on organic food (or 1.2% of the entire spending on food in the country), ZF has calculated from the data supplied by market research company Retail Zoom. more

11.10.2020

Unilever group, one of the largest actors on the fast-moving consumer goods market, is developing manufacturing operations in Romania by investing in the plant in Ploiesti to meet rising demand for 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

10.14.2020

There is room for growth and even doubling of Romania’s food industry, says Jean Richard de Latour, the French executive who runs the local operations of retailer Carrefour. more

09.21.2020

Latvian food production and distribution group Food Union, which owns 80% in ice cream producer Alpin 57 Lux in Alba County, says there has been a change of mentality and behavior due to the COVID-19 more

09.08.2020

Whiteland Import Export, the distributor of Muller, Hochland, Meggle and Nestle products, posted 204 million lei revenue last year, slightly higher than in 2018 (2%). However, it remained in the red more

09.07.2020

Orkla Foods, one of the largest local producers of canned food, posted 11.4% rise in revenue to 238 million lei last year, Finance Ministry data show. It also ended 2019 in the black, with RON6 more

07.02.2020

Romania’s food products trade deficit has reached EUR1.4 billion, Agriculture minister Adrian Oros said Thursday, adding the ministry he runs seeks to build eight regional warehouses for agri-food more

06.02.2020

Dacia Plant, one of the largest Romanian manufacturers of food supplements, saw its revenue slightly increase to RON33.4 milion in 2019, following consolidation of product portfolio and this year’s more

05.18.2020

The food industry has had its share of challenging times such as during the bird flu or African swine fever and came out stronger every time. It will come out stronger after the COVID-19 pandemic, as more

05.08.2020

Canned foods manufacturer Prefera Foods, held by entrepreneur Raul Ciurtin, plans to sell its products in an online store, as more and more consumers are looking for other ways to shop. more

04.28.2020

Entrepreneur Vasile Armenean, known for having founded and sold ice cream producer Betty Ice to Unilever, says he does not rule out a potential return to the food industry, considering the COVID-19 more