09.27.2024

UK’s Kingfisher Group, which owns DIY retailer Brico Dépôt in Romania, is in talks to sell the operations in the country, market sources told ZF. more

03.22.2023

UK’s Kingfisher Group, which owns do-it-yourself (DIY) retailer Brico Depot on the Romanian market, reported sales of GBP285 million in the 2022/2023 financial year ended on January 31, 2023, up more

03.30.2022

UK’s Kingfisher, which owns the Brico Depot DIY stores in Romania, saw its local sales increase by 15% in 2021 versus 2020, to GBP279 million (almost EUR335 million), in line with Kingfisher’s more

02.24.2022

DIY network Brico Depot Romania, owned by Britain’s Kingfisher, wants to develop the outlet-type chain it launched in 2020 with the opening of a unit in Chiajna, near Bucharest. more

09.06.2021

Sales of retailer Kingfisher in Romania, where it owns do-it-yourself (DIY) Brico Dépôt stores, grew by 12.3% on the year in the second quarter of 2021, and by 27.4% on the year in the first quarter more

03.24.2021

Sales of retailer Kingfisher in Romania, where it owns do-it-yourself (DIY) Brico Dépôt stores, grew 11.8% on the year in Romania in 2020, to GBP242 million, on increased demand. more

11.27.2020

UK’s Kingfisher Group, which holds do-it-yourself (DIY) Brico Dépôt stores, reported a 10.6% like-for-like growth in sales in Romania in the third quarter of 2020, per its latest financial report. more

07.03.2020

UK's Kingfisher, owner of DIY retail chain Brico Dépôt, has opened a construction materials outlet center in Chiajna, near Bucharest. more

05.22.2020

Brico Dépôt do-it-yourself stores in Romania posted GBP43 million (some EUR48 million) sales in the first quarter of 2020, 10.6% higher than in the year-ago period, the first quarter financial more

09.25.2018

UK’s Kingfisher, which bought do-it-yourself (DIY) chain Praktiker from businessman Omer Susli in 2017, is closing down three other Praktiker stores. more

03.22.2018

UK's Kingfisher, which bought DIY chain Praktiker from businessman Omer Susli last year, paid GBP14 million (EUR16 million) for the 26 stores, according to a report on the London Stock Exchange. more

02.26.2018

UK group Kingfisher, which owns in Romania do-it-yourself (DIY) store chains Praktiker and Brico Depot, raised by EUR11.6 million the share capital of Bricostore Romania, through which it operates more

03.31.2015

British DIY retailer Kingfisher had sales of GBP91 million (EUR113.7 million) in Romania in the 2014 financial year (February 2014-January 2015), and posted a loss of GBP12 million. more

03.30.2015

British DIY retailer Kingfisher will not proceed with the acquisition of Mr Bricolage, following the opposition of ANPF, which owns 41.9% in the French company, which did not extend the antitrust more

02.18.2015

Britain’s Kingfisher, which owns Bricostore and Brico Depot stores in Romania, forged a partnership with German group Metro to open some temporary warehouses in the spaces of the cash&carry network, more

11.25.2014

British DIY retailer Kingfisher had sales of GBP68 million (EUR84.3 million) in the first three quarters of the 2014/2015 financial year (February-October) in Romania and a loss of GBP9 million more

10.14.2014

The sales of the first Brico Depot stores that replaced the former Bricostore units of Orhideea and Pantelimon in Bucharest rose by 20%, a reason why the network rebranding process has been more

09.10.2014

British group Kingfisher, which last spring bough the 15 Bricostore DIY stores, registered sales of GBP42 million (around EUR52 million) in Romania and a loss of around GBP6 million in the first half more

05.29.2014

British DIY retailer Kingfisher had sales of GBP16 million (EUR19.36 million) in February-April, the first quarter of the 2014/2015 fiscal year, in the 15 stores it bought last year in Romania. more

04.03.2014

Europe’s leading home improvement retailer Kingfisher Thursday announced it launched a EUR275 million takeover bid for French home improvement retailer Mr Bricolage, adding that the process is more

03.28.2014

UK group Kingfisher, which in 2013 took over the Romanian DIY network of Bricostore, in February operated several capital raise operations in the wake of which it injected around EUR21.5 million in more

03.13.2014

British group Kingfisher opened its first two Bricostore DiY units rebranded as Brico Depot, in the capital city, Bucharest, and plans to complete the rebranding process in two years, the company’s more

01.20.2014

UK’s Kingfisher, the largest do-it-yourself retailer in Europe, will put its logo on the first Romanian store by the end of the quarter, as the former Bricostore stores in Orhideea and Pantelimon more

10.30.2013

The Bricostore logo, a white sun against a red background smiling at Romanian consumers since 2002, will remain in place until the end of the year, as UK’s Kingfisher will start rebranding the 15 more

09.11.2013

British group Kingfisher paid GBP35 million (EUR41.5 million) cash for Bricostore's 15 home improvement stores in Romania. more