07.18.2013

Romania ranks 28th among countries with the largest furniture production, shows the World Furniture Outlook research conducted by CSIL, an independent institute from Italy, which analyzes the more

06.13.2013

Casa Rusu, the retail division of Timisoara-based furniture producer Rus Savitar, will open two stores Friday, in the western Romanian cities of Oradea and Arad, following an investment of EUR300,000. more

06.05.2013

Furniture industry companies hired 4,700 people last year, but the market is suffering from a lack of skills so they have to invest in training the people they hire, says the Romanian Furniture more

05.16.2013

Furniture group Mobexpert’s revenue was up 12% in the first four months, compared with the year-ago period, driven by accessories, owner Dan Sucu said. more

05.01.2013

Some of Romania’s furniture plants continued investment last year, which led to an increase in staff numbers by 4,700 in an industry which pays a monthly net wage a little over 1,000 lei (EUR231). more

03.29.2013

Romanian furniture manufacturers exported furniture of almost EUR700 million to the country’s top three export destinations last year, but all three markets recorded declines, shows data of the more

03.27.2013

Local furniture industry is bracing itself for a new year of decline, the fifth in a row since 2009, when it started. The main players say they will have a difficult year on the Romanian market, set more

02.21.2013

Office furniture importer Corporate Office Solutions expects sales to reach EUR15 million this year, up 27% on the EUR11.8 million of 2012. more

02.13.2013

The sales of retail network LEM'S, operated by Romanian furniture maker Lemet Campina, grew by 20% in 2012, to almost 210 million lei (EUR47.72 million). more

12.27.2012

Furniture maker Cotta International Arad estimates a 4% rise in turnover in 2013, similar to this year’s increase, after signing 420 contracts already with various clients in Europe. more

10.26.2012

The fall came with good results for the furniture industry, as companies in this business say they achieved the budget targets and some of them are optimistic about the fourth quarter, usually the more

10.08.2012

The furniture market, affected by the difficult access to capital, is also faced with problems such as low demand, driven by the lowest price, the lack of coherent policies meant to help manufacturers more

09.20.2012

Furniture exports went up by 6% in the first half, according to the data of the Romanian Furniture Manufacturers' Association (APMR), and were a breath of fresh air for the manufacturers in the more

09.03.2012

The 40 largest furniture producers in Romania posted EUR742 million revenue last year, up about 10%, compared with 2010. Seven of them are located in Maramures County (northern Romania), which can be more

08.23.2012

Casa Rusu, the retail unit of furniture maker Rus Savitar, obtained more than 35% of its revenue last year from two stores in Bucharest. The store in the Vitantis shopping center (southern Bucharest) more

07.12.2012

The sales of retail network LEM'S, operated by Romanian furniture maker Lemet Campina, grew by 21% in the first half of the year, to 70.2 million lei (EUR15.5 million) and might reach RON200 million more

07.12.2012

The domestic furniture market fell 20% in the first three months of this year to EUR122 million, according to the data of the Romanian Furniture Manufacturers’ Association (APMR). Export rose by more

07.10.2012

Kastamonu Romania (the former Prolemn) in Reghin (central Romania), controlled by Kastamonu Entegre, one of the leading wood processing companies in Turkey, will complete a EUR150 million investment more

06.07.2012

Elvila, one of the largest players in the Romanian furniture industry, recorded a 10% growth in turnover in the first five months of this year compared with the similar period of 2011. more

05.16.2012

Businessman Dan Sucu, who controls the Mobexpert business, worth around EUR113 million last year, says he was surprised by the good results of provincial stores in the first months of the year, which more

03.22.2012

Furniture exports widened by 17% on the year in 2011, to a record EUR1.38 billion, according to local furniture maker association APMR. more

03.14.2012

Mikael Ohlsson, the chief executive officer of IKEA, world’s largest furniture company, says he is in no hurry to open the next store in Romania and prefers to do things step by step, as IKEA is not more

03.06.2012

Furniture maker Staer International, which started insolvency proceedings at the shareholder’s request in December 2010, has budgeted a turnover of 38.42 million lei (EUR8.8 million) for this year, more

02.21.2012

Mobexpert, Elvila and kika, three of the large players in Romania’s furniture retail market, reported significant sale increases in January, proving that consumer appetite for household redecoration more

01.30.2012

The street protests of the past couple of weeks and the bad weather have been felt in companies’ accounts, but only for a few days, without significantly affecting full-month results. more