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

08.19.2016

The about 1,700 modern retail stores – hypermarkets, supermarkets and discount stores, in Romania had almost 72,000 employees at the end of last year, according to publicly available data. more

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

09.07.2015

Traditional retail lost the battle with the international retail chains that claimed 16% of the market share of the small traditional retailers in 2008-2015. more

09.04.2015

The 12 modern retail chains in Romania entered the fall with about 100 new stores, but the expansion was mostly driven by Profi and Mega Image, which opened 60 and 21 supermarkets and convenience more

04.21.2015

A group of 16 farmers of Arad invested EUR2 million in a dairy plant in the same county, which now produces over ten sorts of cheese for Romania’s biggest modern retailers. Cris Sib Lacto plant of more

03.11.2015

Romania’s modern retail stock will exceed 3 million square meters this year, compared with 2.86 million sqm in 2013, with one third of the projects delivered in the capital city, Bucharest, while more

02.12.2015

Almost 1 million hectoliters of wine are sold annually in modern retail networks, accounting for 40-50% in total volumes sold in Romania, according to a ZF estimate based on data from winemakers. more

01.29.2015

Players in Romania’s modern retail announced ambitious expansion plans for this year, with over 250 new stores scheduled for opening, mainly on small format. Investments could reach EUR200 million. more

01.14.2015

In December, traditionally the best month for retail and consumption, supermarket and hypermarket chains in Romania registered flat or slightly higher sales against the same month of 2013, according more

01.06.2015

Modern retail players last year added almost 250 stores, maintaining the pace of 2013 and driving the total number of units to almost 1,500. The champions of expansion were Mega Image and Profi, more

12.22.2014

Modern retailers have split Romania among themselves, so the supermarket and convenience store chains opened almost half of their stores in Bucharest and the surrounding Ilfov County, while the more

10.29.2014

Romania’s ten largest cities by population numbers make the main battleground of modern retail networks owing both to the high population density and to the above-average purchasing power. more

10.28.2014

Germany’s group Metro Cash&Carry collaborates with 100 Romanian fruit and vegetable producers. more

10.23.2014

The trend of modern retailers in Romania positioning themselves next to direct or indirect rivals has become ever more visible lately as the battle for clients has turned fiercer. Moreover, retailers more

08.05.2014

Kaufland, the leader of the Romanian retail market, aims to reach EUR2 billion in revenue in Romania by the end of financial year 2017-2018. more

07.31.2014

Consumer goods producer Nestle generates around 40% of sales in Romania from traditional retail, a market of 70,000-80,000 units, as a solid part of its clients are shopping there. more

07.14.2014

“Do your daily shopping at small merchants. Buy bread, milk and Coca-Cola”. This is the latest campaign of US giant Coca-Cola encouraging Romanians to continue going shopping in traditional more

06.25.2014

French group Carrefour is expanding further on the hypermarket segment in Romania and is set to open two large stores in southern Bucharest and in Targu-Jiu in the next three months. more

06.24.2014

International retailers have started tapping rural areas, small domestic entrepreneurs’ “last bulwark” in recent years, and stores’ wider product range and lower prices are helping modern more

06.13.2014

Companies in modern retail successfully improved the efficiency of their operations during the crisis, cutting down the number of employees per 1,000 square meters by 25%. more

05.08.2014

German-held Kaufland, leader on the Romanian modern retail market, no longer sells the products of Coca-Cola giant in its Romanian stores, except 2.5-liter Coca-Cola products. more

04.29.2014

German retailer Kaufland, which in 2011 became the leader of Romanian modern retail, almost doubled its revenue during the crisis, when it opened 44 stores and hired over 5,000 people. more

04.22.2014

Belgium-held Mega Image wants to open around 100 stores this year alone, Rewe Romania wants to double its network by 2020, and Carrefour is set to bring a new format on the Romanian market, a hybrid more

04.22.2014

Romania’s 100 largest road transporters, which control over 90% of the market, have a total fleet of over 20,000 trucks. Of these, 1,000 trucks, namely 5% of the fleet, are daily on Romania's roads more