07.21.2014

German retailer Lidl will open a new store in Romania Thursday, in Targu Neamt (in northeastern county of Neamt), reaching a countrywide network of 176 units, the company said Monday. more

06.13.2014

German retailer Lidl will open two stores next week, in Bucharest and Craiova, reaching a countrywide network of 175 units, the company announced Friday. more

05.16.2014

Germany’s Lild has put up for sale 15 land plots covering more than 8.5 hectares which are adjacent to the stores the company has already opened in several cities of Romania such as Buhusi, Orastie more

05.06.2014

Germany’s Lidl, which owns in Romania a network of over 170 stores with annual sales of around EUR700 million, plans to expand to Bragadiru, near capital city Bucharest, on a land plot of the more

03.27.2014

Nine international groups, holding 12 modern retail networks overall, are still present on the Romanian market, after the departure, in recent years, of Turkey’s FIBA (with G’market stores), more

03.19.2014

Pilos, a private label of German-held retailer Lidl, and K-Classic, a private label of hypermarket chain Kaufland, accounted for 29% of the packaged milk market together in 2013, which ZF estimates at more

03.18.2014

German-held retailer Lidl acquired the former sweets plant of Brasov owned by Mondelez Romania, the producer of Poiana chocolate, but plans to sell part of the land plot for the construction of a more

02.17.2014

German retailer Lidl will open three new stores this week in Bucharest, Popesti Leordeni and Timisoara, thus reaching 174 units countrywide, the company announced. more

02.12.2014

German retailer Lidl will open a new store in Romania Thursday, in western city of Arad, bringing its local network to 171 units, the company said Wednesday. more

02.11.2014

German-held group Schwarz, which operates Kaufland discount hypermarket chain and Lidl discount stores, generated revenue of over EUR2.3 billion last year in Romania, thus controlling 13% of the more

02.03.2014

German retailer Lidl will open this month five new stores in Iasi, Arad, Bucharest, Popesti Leordeni (Ilfov) and Timisoara, thus reaching 174 units, according to the company’s data. more

01.13.2014

German-held supermarket chain Lidl, which entered Romania officially by taking over the Plus network in 2011, will continue to expand in 2014 at the same pace it did in 2013, 14 stores, driven by a more

12.18.2013

After taking over discount store chain Plus Discount in 2010, German retailer Lidl set lower prices than those in Plus stores and doubled the share of its cheaper, self-branded products in total more

09.18.2013

German retailer Lidl will open a new store in Cluj-Napoca Thursday, its fifth in the city and 163rd in Romania, the company said Wednesday. more

09.12.2013

German retailer Lidl resumes expansion with two stores outside Bucharest and wants to open seven more by yearend to bring its local network to a total of 169 units. more

08.06.2013

German discount retail chain Lidl plans to open stores on the lands of two former industrial platforms which used to accommodate Ursus beer plant in Cluj (northwestern Romania) and Poiana chocolate more

06.12.2013

German retailer Lidl will open a new store in Romania next week, in Tragu Mures, expanding its local network to 160 units, Georgiana Tugearu, PR manager at Lidl, said Wednesday. more

06.12.2013

The 100 largest importers account for almost 40% of the total imports or more than EUR21 billion euros, according to the National Statistics Institute. more

06.06.2013

German retailer Lidl will open a new store in Bucharest Wednesday, reaching 159 stores in Romania. more

06.06.2013

Wafers, cold cuts and the like that retailer Lidl imported last year weighed more heavily in the trade balance than the turbines CEZ bought for its wind farm in Fantanele (SE Romania), the largest in more

05.07.2013

Romanian modern retail is dominated by foreign networks, which boast annual sales of EUR8.5-EUR9 billion. No local entrepreneur manages to compete against Kaufland, Lidl and Carrefour, and none have more

04.24.2013

The 12 competitors in modern retail have put more than 1,000 stores on Romania’s map, and some of them have lately tried to expand to rural areas, even though still close to big cities. more

01.29.2013

German retailer Lidl will open Thursday its third store in the southeastern town of Constanta, expanding its Romanian network to 157 units, the company said Tuesday. more

01.16.2013

German retailer Lidl will open a new store Thursday in Piatra Neamt, expanding its Romanian network to 156 units, the company said Wednesday. more

12.12.2012

German retailer Lidl will open one new store Thursday in the northwestern town of Cluj-Napoca, expanding its Romanian network to 155 units. more