11.25.2015

Romania’s durable consumer goods market rose 9.5% to EUR534 million on the year in the third quarter of 2015, with an upward trend for telecom segment, according to a GfK survey. more

08.17.2015

Romania’s durable consumer goods market rose 6.4% to EUR449 million on the year in the second quarter of 2015, with an upward trend for telecom and home appliances segments, while the IT sector more

07.03.2015

In a time when price is one of the main factors in a buying decision, private labels are working their way into the EUR400 million to EUR500 million sporting goods market, as well. Names like more

07.02.2015

Sporting goods retailer Decathlon’s plans for 2015 include opening a 4,000 square meter store in Baneasa area in northern Bucharest, which will carry products for 60 sports. more

06.29.2015

Sporting goods retailer Intersport, which has 28 stores in Romania, has seen sales up 15% this year, driven by consumer spending rebound and by some of the steps it took a while ago. more

05.22.2015

Decathlon, the leading sporting goods retailer in Romania, will continue expansion by two or three stores this year. Sales stood at more than 310 million lei (EUR70 million) in 2014, up 33% on the more

03.26.2015

Finland’s Amer, which owns some of the best-known sporting goods brands in the world, such as Salomon, Wilson and Mavic, is working with three plants in Romania. more

03.20.2015

Sporting goods production doubled during the crisis from 90 million lei (EUR20.3 million) in 2008 to more than RON180 million in 2013. The industry is employing 1,700 people. more

03.04.2015

The shareholders of dm drogerie markt this January brought EUR4.2 million in Romania, a sum big enough to cover investments in the opening of 9-10 stores, according to ZF’s latest data. more

02.16.2015

The durable goods market in Romania grew 13.7% last year, to over EUR2 billion, driven by sales offers, especially Black Friday and winter holiday deals, according to market research company GfK. more

12.15.2014

Sporting goods retailer Intersport, which has recently returned with a store in downtown Bucharest in Piata Unirii after three and a half years, will enter 2015 with a network of 28 stores and plans more

12.03.2014

Sporting goods retailer Intersport, brought in Romania by Greek Fourlis Group, returned to Bucharest’s Unirii Square with a store, three years and a half after it vacated the space close to Unirea more

11.18.2014

Sales of durable goods increased 15.7% a year in the third quarter in Romania, to EUR484 million, and sales are expected to register growth in the last quarter as well, according to a GfK TEMAX more

10.13.2014

Romanian consumers will spend 2.2 billion lei (about EUR500 million) on luxury goods this year, mostly on clothing, shoes and fine drinks. The market has been flat over the last few years but will more

10.08.2014

The volume of global goods trade is set to nearly double by 2030, while Romania can benefit from its favorable geographic location, but needs a propitious tax environment and steady investments in more

10.06.2014

German-held cosmetics and fast-moving consumer goods retailer dm drogerie markt is set to open its 68th store in Romania, in mid-October, in Targu-Jiu. This will be the company’s second opening this more

09.29.2014

Supeco Investment company, set up this spring by Carrefour Romania (with a 90% stake) and Artima (10%) late last week opened the first store in Romania, in Ramnicu-Valcea, a unit with a 1,700-sqm more

09.19.2014

Romania’s exports of footwear and other leather goods reached EUR2 billion in 2013, with 40% of the sum being generated by exports of local original brands, according to data provided by Sfera more

09.05.2014

Romanian cardboard packaging producer Ecopack Ghimbav, controlled by businessman Vladimir Cohn, counts on a 10% production capacity increase after the company completes, this autumn, an investment in more

08.22.2014

The figures posted in the first half set the stage for further growth for electroIT retailer Domo's business in the second half as well, says Kim Koellner, the South-Korean executive brought at the more

08.18.2014

Sales of durable goods increased 17% on the year in the second quarter of 2014, to EUR420 million, with growth across most categories of goods, according to a study by market research company GfK, more

08.06.2014

French sporting goods retailer Decathlon, present on the Romanian market with a network of 13 stores, assembled 350,000-400,000 bicycles in Romania last year. more

06.09.2014

Romanians have resumed purchases of white goods, such as refrigerators, cookers and washing machines, which shows the local electro-IT market has exited the crisis, says Dragos Sirbu, appointed at the more

05.21.2014

Romania’s durable consumer goods market rose nearly 8% to EUR386 million on the year in the first three months of 2014, the best quarter in the last four years, with the telecom and photo segments more

05.14.2014

Romanians purchased 50-55 million euros worth of shampoo in 2013, when over 60% of the market was shared by three international giants, namely Procter&Gamble, Unilever and L’Oreal. P&G, including more