08.30.2012

Lidl and Penny Market, the only two companies left on the local discount retail market, will have over 300 stores by yearend, 45 more than at the beginning of 2012. The two networks, which operate more

07.18.2012

German retailer Lidl will open Thursday a store in the central Romanian city of Ploiesti, reaching a countrywide network of 142 stores. more

07.06.2012

Discount chain Lidl, the latest to enter the market of modern retail in Romania in 2011, when it started one of the most aggressive expansion campaigns, ended last year with 1.68 billion lei (EUR375 more

06.20.2012

German retailer Lidl opened a store in the northern Romanian city of Baia Mare Wednesday, reaching a countrywide network of 141 stores. more

06.06.2012

German retailer Lidl will open a new store Wednesday in Timisoara, western Romania, bringing its local network at 140 units, the retailer said in a press release. more

05.23.2012

German retailer Lidl will open a store Thursday in Medias, central Romania, its 138th store in the country. more

02.13.2012

German retailer Lidl has secured a EUR50 million loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment division of the World Bank, to finance its expansion in Romania, from the more

02.07.2012

Retailers Lidl, Mega Image and Profi will invest EUR120 to EUR150 million this year, according to ZF estimates. The money will be used to open about 170 stores on the local market, thus setting a more

02.03.2012

German retailer Lidl plans to widen this year its Romanian network of stores to 200 units, from 134, with an investment of EUR1 million in each store, Friday said Alin Trnobranschy, south Romania more

01.18.2012

German retailer Lidl, the latest arrival in the Romanian retail sector, will appoint Maksymilian Braniecki as chief executive of the local store chain, market sources say. more

12.23.2011

Modern retailers continued to invest hundreds of millions of euros this year in the opening of 150 new stores, despite the 4.5% decline of consumer spending in the first ten months. more

12.15.2011

Although the crisis has lingered on and consumption continued to decline, 2011 has been a good overall year in the retail sector, estimated at EUR16 billion. The new market entries, the launches of more

11.04.2011

Lidl Romania, the German retailer that embarked upon the most aggressive expansion campaign, will open at least six stores by yearend and is on course to overshoot the 125 mark on this market. more

10.25.2011

Three Cluj county entrepreneurs, who own Ruttrans, a company with a turnover of just EUR500,000 in 2010, collected EUR1 million from the sale of a 5,000 square-meter plot to German discount chain more

10.12.2011

The consumers' lower disposable income, the sales tax increase and the economic crisis are not reflected in the balance sheets of the major retailers operating in Romania. The combined profits of the more

10.07.2011

As of October 10, discount chain Lidl will become the largest modern retailer on the Romanian market in terms of store numbers, after opening 11 greenfield stores and reaching a total of 118. more

10.06.2011

German retailer Lidl will officially launch Monday the first stores it has constructed from scratch in Romania, after it recently upgraded and rebranded the 107 Plus units acquired from Tengelmann in more

09.16.2011

Polish investment fund Enterprise Investors has doubled the number of Profi stores, which overshot the 100 mark in less than two years. more

09.14.2011

German retailer Lidl, present on the Romanian market through a chain of 100 stores, of which five located in Bucharest, plans to open at least eight more stores in the capital city. more

08.19.2011

In 30 months (January 2009-June 2011), dominated by recession and falling consumption, several retail companies, mainly foreign-owned, invested in the opening of around 400 stores. What are they more

08.01.2011

German group Lidl, which at the end of June entered the Romanian market officially by rebranding the 107 Plus stores it bought last year, is getting ready to open the first stores built from the more

07.21.2011

Lidl, the German discount-type network that has embarked upon the most extensive foray in Romanian retail, has also brought a new business model. The retailer that currently operates around 110 stores more

06.20.2011

Lidl Monday opened 107 Lidl rebranded stores, following the overhaul of the Plus Discount stores the German retailer has bought last year. more

05.26.2011

Germany's Lidl, which has embarked upon the most aggressive expansion campaign in the Romanian retail market in the past three years, has added all the cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants on its more

05.18.2011

The entry of Germany's Lidl on the domestic market will change the face of Romania's modern retail, a business of EUR7-8 billion annually, with the company set to swallow market share from the other more