10.09.2014

The Romanian food industry, dominated at the top by multinationals of vegetal oil, sugar and confectionery production, but characterized by a second tier made up of Romanian entrepreneurial 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

09.26.2014

Romania could end 2014 with a positive trade balance for agri-food products after it registered a trade surplus in this sector last year as well, agriculture minister Daniel Constantin told more

09.26.2014

The 3,061 companies operating in Romania’s food, beverage and tobacco wholesale sector in 2013 generated overall revenue worth 21 billion lei (EUR4.75 billion), down 6% in lei on the year. 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

08.22.2014

Chipita Romania, the domestic subsidiary of the Greek group of the same name that owns the brands 7Days and Finetti, was in 2013 the largest confectionery exporter from Romania, according to a ZF more

08.20.2014

The franchised McDonald’s restaurants ended last year with average revenue of 7.3 million lei (EUR1.64 million), more than 6% higher than the revenue of a restaurant operated directly by the company more

08.18.2014

US fast-food restaurant chain Burger King, which operates more than 13,500 restaurants worldwide, will send a delegation to Bucharest this fall to look at the market again in view of a reentry. more

07.29.2014

Bunge (vegetable oil), Agrana (sugar), Expur (vegetable oil), Smithfield (meat) and Prutul (vegetable oil) are the top companies among the largest 50 food industry manufacturers in Romania, a group more

07.23.2014

The 20 largest consumer goods producers in Romania posted last an aggregated revenue of 23.8 billion lei (EUR5.4 billion), up by 1.5% against 2012 and 37% higher than in 2008, the last year of solid more

07.18.2014

In 2008, the group built in Bihor by brothers Ioan and Viorel Micula generated almost one billion euros in revenue. In 2013, two of the largest companies part of the entrepreneurs’ food empire, more

05.30.2014

Brasov-based group Sergiana operating in the food industry, one of the ten largest businesses in Brasov county, overshot the EUR40 million sales mark in 2013, due to a 10% increase, according to ZF more

05.20.2014

Marex and Vegetal Trading companies, controlled by entrepreneurs in Braila, entered insolvency proceedings at their own request amid a cash crunch. The companies’ biggest creditors include BCR, more

05.16.2014

Romanians spend just 3% of their monthly income on healthcare, less than on spirits and tobacco. The smallest sums are earmarked for education, namely 1% of the budget, while food, rent, utilities and more

05.13.2014

The average value of online food orders in the capital city, Bucharest, stands at RON50 per day, compared with the other main Romanian cities, where the average value of an order stands at RON40, more

05.13.2014

Ikea Food, the division that includes the restaurant, the bistro and Swedish deli operating inside the company’s store in Baneasa, northern Bucharest, ended fiscal 2013 with almost 33 million lei more

05.12.2014

“More and more customers, especially foreign ones, are interested in our production process,” said representatives of Supremia Grup, a food ingredients and spice business turned solar farm more

04.15.2014

Romania's food industry exports posted a EUR35 million surplus in January and the country's main export product was corn, which overtook wheat exports, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said more

04.14.2014

The Romanian government and companies need to reshuffle their domestic product promotion policy, following models already implemented by other European countries, says Catalin Olteanu, general manager more

04.02.2014

The development of distributors of food and agricultural products between 2011 and 2012 was not qualitative in terms of income, and 80% of the distributors that reported increasing turnover liquidity more

03.24.2014

The average net wage in Romania is enough to buy 15 staple food baskets per month, while in Poland and Germany it can buy 25 and 50 food baskets, respectively. more

03.16.2014

Romania had a food trade surplus in 2013, for the first time since 1994, of EUR324.9 million, from a deficit of EUR745.5 million in 2012. more

03.14.2014

Supremia Grup, a business held by the Bara family of Alba county, which supplies ingredients and spices to the local food industry, expects a 10% increase in revenue in 2014, after ending 2013 with more

02.18.2014

Dr. Oetker, the biggest player on Romanian food additive market, is set to build a new plant in Valea Iasului locality of Arges county, after it bought a 14-ha land plot located near its current more