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04.15.2019

Suceava-based Denis group, a footwear manufacturer and retailer, ended last year with 100.2 million lei (EUR21 million) sales, almost 30% higher than in 2017, ZF has calculated from publicly available more

04.01.2019

Protective footwear manufacturer Lenox established by entrepreneur Sorin Nicolau in Bucharest in 2005 ended 2018 with 14 million lei (EUR3 million) revenue, up 15% over the previous year. more

02.18.2019

Romania, one of the leading manufacturers of apparel and footwear in Europe and even in the world, has become too expensive a destination for some actors in the industry, even though the average wage more

02.13.2019

Swiss-held footwear manufacturer Rieker closes plants in Romania will cease manufacturing operations in Romania and will close the plants in Lugoj, Timis, this spring, the territorial office of the more

11.19.2018

Polish footwear retailer CCC, which has a direct presence in Romania, posted PLN119.9 million (130 million lei or EUR28 million) sales in the first nine months, 50% higher than in the year-ago period. more

08.30.2018

Poland has become Romania’s main shoe supplier judging by the value of the imports, climbing three places in the ranking and leaving Italy, China and Slovakia behind. About 7.7 million pairs of more

07.17.2018

Footwear manufacturer Musette, which also owns retail operations, saw its revenue up about 5% last year, the lowest growth in the last few years, when it had a double-digit growth rate. more

01.26.2018

Poland’s CCC group, which owns almost 900 footwear stores on 16 markets, is taking over the franchise in Romania. The seller is the Peeraj group, one of the largest players on the local fashion more

12.21.2017

Footwear retailer Ecco, which has been operating in Romania for more than a decade as a franchise at first and then directly, has grown to 24 brick and mortar stores after having opened a new one in more

08.21.2017

There are about 1,000 companies that make footwear in Romanian, which employ 50,000 people, reveals the World Footwear yearbook. Romania is one of the most important European manufacturers and more

07.14.2017

Footwear retailer Il Passo, a company with an 18-history on the market, has budgeted growth of 5% in revenue in 2017. Its retail revenue will therefore amount to more than 50 million lei (EUR11 more

03.31.2017

A family of entrepreneurs in Suceava, northern Romania, who makes footwear and leather belts, last year posted about 58 million lei (EUR12.9 million) revenue. more

03.15.2017

Footwear manufacturer and retailer Denis, held by a local entrepreneur family, wants to develop the business of the footwear plant in Suceava and make 1,600 pairs of shoes a day compared with 1,200 to more

12.16.2016

Footwear manufacturer and retailer Musette has increased capacity of its factories by about 30% and inaugurated a new facility in Bucharest to be able to meet demand. more

10.06.2016

Footwear retail store brand Leonardo has resurfaced less than two years after the company operating it for two decades went bankrupt. The retailer’s website is up and running again, saying there are more

08.21.2016

Romania’s footwear exports fell to approximately $1 billion in 2015, close to the minimum value registered in the last ten years, according to a report by market research company World Footwear. more

08.15.2016

Romania exported $1 billion worth of shoes last year and its main trade partners were Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and France. It is one of the world’s biggest footwear manufacturers but more

07.12.2016

Romania is known as one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the world, ranking 14th among the world’s exporters with $1.3 billion worth of footwear shipped abroad. more

06.22.2016

Apparel and footwear retail chain Preturi pentru tine (Prices for You) developed by Romanian entrepreneurs has expanded into Bulgaria this year, thus adding a third market to Romania and the Republic more

05.30.2016

Spanish-held Inditex, Swedish-held H&M and Dutch-held C&A dominate Romania’s fashion retail, where their sales reached about 2.3 billion last year (EUR510 million). The three account for 15% of more

05.25.2016

Footwear retailer Benvenuti posted 19.8 million lei (EUR4.4 million) revenue in the first quarter, higher than in the year-ago period and expects 2016 revenue to reach RON90 million. more

05.06.2016

Eugen Paturan, the entrepreneur who introduced footwear retailer Bata in Romania as a franchisee together with his wife thirteen years ago is developing another franchised footwear retail business, more

04.27.2016

Footwear and leather accessories retailer Il Passo expects a turnover of EUR700,000 in 2016, almost double against the previous year, according to company officials. more

01.07.2016

Otter Distribution, one of the largest local footwear retailers, ended last year with EUR26 million sales, an increase of more than 10% on 2014. The growth drivers were the rise in consumer spending more