05.27.2021

Entrepreneur-owned grocery retail businesses ended the first year of the pandemic with growth of 10% to more than 20%. more

05.20.2021

The European grocery retail real estate market has remained resilient in the face of economic uncertainty, as the COVID-19 pandemic provided new opportunities for growth and increased investor more

03.16.2021

The fight for the top position in the modern grocery retail in Romania is becoming tighter, and the biggest actors are growing constantly and becoming bigger. The most powerful five groups – Schwarz more

12.17.2020

Local modern retail stores, about 3,500 in various formats, are valued at a little less than EUR10 billion (46 billion lei) in 2020, 21% higher than in 2019. more

08.18.2020

Discount retail chains – Lidl, Penny and Supeco, now account for one fifth of the modern retail sales, after their sales went up twice faster than the market on average last year. more

03.06.2020

The last two decades, which saw the financial crisis that started in 2009 and the fast-paced development of foreign networks, led to a significant change of the grocery retail. more

02.14.2020

Grocery retail will reach almost EUR25 billion in 2024, but the growth pace of the market is expected to slow down as of this year. more

01.29.2020

The ranking of the largest players in the grocery retail in Romania has radically changed in the past decade, with three new names climbing among the top five. The three are Profi and Mega Image more

12.23.2019

Grocery retail, a EUR20 billion market a year was the stage of deals between foreign and local actors. Foreign chains continued to cement their position with new openings from scratch of several more

12.12.2019

The nine most valuable modern retail networks in Romania are valued at 37.8 billion lei or almost EUR8 billion, ZF has calculated. more

09.02.2019

French-held retailer Carrefour, which has been operating in Romania since 2001, increased its sales by 7.6% in the first half of 2019 and if the growth continues at the same rate, the group’s total more

12.13.2018

The local fashion market put at some 15 billion lei (EUR3.21 billion) has become increasingly attractive to low price retailers like Pepco (Poland), Kik (Germany), and Miniso (Japan). The latter two more

08.28.2018

The top 20 local grocery retail businesses include nine that are held by local entrepreneurs, which posted more than 100 million lei (EUR22 million) revenue last year. more

08.22.2018

The average net salaries the top five international retailers by revenue – Kaufland, Carrefour, Lidl, Auchan and Mega Image, pay vary from 2.100 lei (EUR452) to 3,100 lei (EUR668). more

04.24.2018

The top five grocery retailers by estimated market share in Romania are Kaufland, Carrefour, Lidl, Mega Image and Profi this year, data supplied by market research company IGD show. more

03.09.2018

German-held hypermarket chain Kaufland, the leader of grocery retail in Romania, ended last year with 10.1 billion lei (over EUR2 billion) revenue, 4% higher than in 2016, ZF has found. more

12.20.2017

Modern retail is an about EUR11 billion market with more than 2,000 stores, dominated by ten international groups. The sector continued to expand in 2017, at the same rate in as the last few years more

10.13.2017

Germany’s Schwarz group, which owns Kaufland hypermarket chain and Lidl discount store chain, now accounts for almost 20% of the grocery retail in Romania, put at 77.6 billion lei (EUR17 billion) more

05.25.2017

The top grocery retailers in Romania in 2016 were Kaufland, Carrefour and Lidl, the same as in 2015. The rest of the ranking saw some changes, with Profi and Mega Image climbing a few spots. more

05.02.2017

The structure of Romania’s grocery retail changed significantly in 2002-2016, and foreign companies came to account for 57% of the market compared with 23% about 15 years ago. more

02.27.2017

Local grocery retail has lost - deliberately or not, a number of brands over the past decade. Either bankrupt, sold, or simply dropped for strategic reasons, a number of supermarket and hypermarket more

01.30.2017

German-held discount store chain Lidl is in talks to buy two XXL Mega Discount stores from fellow German group Rewe in Romania in a EUR5 million to EUR10 million deal, market sources say. The deal, more

12.12.2016

This year brought more changes than the last few years taken together. A half a billion euro deal, a change of CEO and the disappearance of a store chain are but some of 2016 events on the EUR10 more

03.15.2016

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01.22.2016

Modern retail accounts for less than one quarter of the total number of grocery stores in Central and Eastern Europe, yet it contributes 75% of the total business, according to ZF’s calculations more