12.03.2024

Romania's Competition Council has approved the transaction through which Mini-Farm is acquiring 10 Tinos Farm pharmacies, located in Bucharest and Ilfov County, from entrepreneur Alex Ursulea­nu, the more

09.02.2022

Romania’s ten largest pharmacy chains generated overall turnover of RON12.3 billion in 2021, accounting for half of the total pharma retail market, in line with calculations by Ziarul Financiar (ZF) more

07.25.2022

Regional pharmacy chain Minifarm topped RON250 million turnover in 2021, after a 14% increase on the year. more

02.14.2022

Pharmacy chain Minifarm expects to reach a RON300 million turnover mark and a 100-unit pharmacy chain, according to company officials. more

01.27.2022

Pharmacy chain Professional Farma Line, held by Razvan Munteanu and Horia Bunget, opened two more pharmacies in Prahova County in early 2022, reaching a 25-unit network. more

09.01.2021

Pharmacy network Ropharma (RPH.RO), Romania’s fifth largest pharmacy network, held by entrepreneur Mihai Miron, ended the first six months of 2021 with net profit worth RON1.45 million, 4.65% lower more

05.20.2021

Sensiblu, the second most extensive pharmacy chain in Romania, which remodeled most of pharmacies under the Dr. Max brand, reported a turnover of over RON1.9 billion in 2020, up 6% on the year, per more

05.04.2020

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02.12.2020

Farmaceutica Remedia (RMAH.RO), which operates a 100-drugstore chain, has announced the sale of 52 pharmacies to Help Net, held by Germany’s Phoenix Group, within a transaction of up to EUR8.5 more

05.10.2017

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06.23.2015

Half of pharmacies in Romania might be closed in the upcoming year if medicine prices fall too much without harmonization with the clawback tax, Robert Popescu, head of the Association of more

04.08.2015

A&D Pharma, the largest group in Romania’s drug industry, has reached a network of over 10 Punkt-branded pharmacies, according to data compiled by ZF, with the new network taking shape in just a few more

02.17.2015

Romania's Competition Council should start an investigation over the pharmaceutical retail and find out the necessary number of pharmacies countrywide, which is currently at an unsustainable level, more

02.03.2015

Pharmaceutical retail in Romania, represented by more than 8,200 pharmacies, grew 1.7% on the year in 2014, to RON10.5 billion (EUR2.4 billion), according to estimates of market research company PMR, more

01.23.2015

Regional pharmacy chains operating in one or two counties of Romania have been gaining ground lately and have now come to directly compete with national ones, says Iulian Trandafir, general manager of more

01.07.2015

Polisano drug wholesaler, part of the Sibiu group of the same name, in the last week of 2014 signed an agreement for a EUR10 million (RON44 million) loan with Eximbank, for working capital. In the more

10.01.2014

Limiting the number of pharmacies in urban areas will not have any direct effect on the opening of pharmacies in rural areas, Romania's antitrust body said in a reasoned opinion Wednesday. more

05.28.2014

The year 2013 brought a surprise change at the peak of the Romanian drug industry, with Switzerland’s Roche gaining the top spot amid the largest players on the local profile market, after reaching more

04.24.2014

S.I.E.P.C.O.F.A.R., the company that operates drugstore chain Farmaciile Dona, expanded further in the first quarter of this year, opening seven new units, two in Bucharest and the rest outside the more

04.07.2014

Petrom’s gas station network of more than 500 units, with revenue of around 15 billion lei (EUR3.4 billion) in 2012, is Romania’s biggest retailer, followed at some distance by Rompetrol gas more

09.30.2013

Help Net, one of the largest retail pharmacy chains in Romania, plans to expand its network of 152 drugstores by opening 28 more units by the end of 2014. more

11.05.2012

Romanian pharmaceutical company Ropharma (RPH.RO), with operations in retail, distribution and production of medicine drugs, expects a turnover increase by at least 10% in 2012, said Mihai Miron, the more

08.05.2011

Health minister Attila Cseke (the 14th minister in the last 20 years) on Thursday handed in his resignation, unhappy with the money he was allotted at the budget revision. Out of the EUR1 billion he more

07.15.2011

The largest local retail pharmacy networks - Sensiblu, Catena, Dona, Ropharma, HelpNet - added around 100 stores in the first half of this year, coming to own almost 1,000, according to ZF more