07.09.2015

Businessman Valentin Norbert Tarus, the majority shareholder of pharmaceutical wholesaler Farmaceutica Remedia (RMAH.RO,) wants to attract new investors into the company or look for opportunities for more

01.28.2015

Retail pharmacy chain Sensiblu, the second-largest in Romania, has launched a new brand, Farmacia Punkt, which it will take to the crowded districts of Bucharest. more

10.28.2014

The number of retail pharmacies has doubled in Romania in the past decade, and the issue of pharmacy numbers is being discussed again this year, as the demographic criterion regulating it is due to more

10.20.2014

Catena, the retail pharmacy chain of the Fildas group, has overshot the 500-pharmacy mark and is the first network to do so. more

09.08.2014

The 20 largest pharmacy networks in Romania in 2013 generated overall revenue worth above EUR1 billion, up 10% against 2012, amid the rising number of units. more

08.19.2014

Farmacia Tei, a company that posted almost EUR14 million sales with only one retail pharmacy last year, is considering expansion by opening a new such store in Bucharest’s district one or three, more

02.14.2014

An exception to the expansion rule has driven the number of retail pharmacies in Bucharest to 960, 44% more than there should actually be, says Ovidiu Wencz, general manager of SIEPCOFAR, the company more

02.06.2014

Pharmaceutical wholesaler Farmexpert has developed soundly in the last few years with costs kept well under control, says general manager Iulian Trandafir. The strategy, he added, was not to push for more

01.29.2014

The largest five retail pharmacy chains in Romania, Catena (480 pharmacies), Sensiblu (more than 400), Dona (230), Help Net (more than 150) and Ropharma (more than 125) account for almost 20% of the more

10.23.2013

There are tens, “maybe even more than a hundred” regional retail pharmacy networks with at least five pharmacies in Romania, says Robert Popescu, chairman of the Association of Pharmaceutical more

10.10.2013

Pharmaceutical wholesaler and retailer Ropharma could see its retail pharmacy network reach 150 pharmacies by the end of 2014 from the current 126, says businessman Mihai Miron, who controls the more

01.23.2013

Belladonna retail pharmacy network, held by two Romanian entrepreneurs, set out to open further 17 units in Bucharest in 2013, to a total of 100 pharmacies. more

09.17.2012

Pharmaceutical giant Alliance Boots could enter the Romanian market directly after testing the waters for a long time, through the acquisition of a pharmacy network. more

06.08.2012

Milan Radin, 36, left Romania when he was 15, back when the Iron Curtain had yet to fall. He came back in 2007 after persuading German-held drogerie markt to enter the Romanian market. The Romanian more

06.01.2012

Catia Radulescu, Centrofarm’s new chief executive officer, said the development of the retail pharmacy chain will be intensive over the coming period, which means it will focus on expanding the more

05.31.2012

Dorin Catana, the chief executive officer of the Centrofarm retail pharmacy network, stepped down from his position and was replaced by Catia Radulescu, a member of the board of directors and one of more

05.03.2012

Romanian pharmacy chain Sensiblu, the retail division of pharmaceutical group A&D Pharma, will buy 90 City Pharma pharmacies owned by the Relad group. more

02.28.2012

Belladonna, the latest chain that started to make its presence felt on the drug retail market in Bucharest, set out to open 17 pharmacies this year, which would take the network to 74. more

01.05.2012

Ovidiu Wencz, the manager who in December became chief executive of Dona pharmacy chain, says the main objectives of his three-year mandate are the development of the network to 300 units and a more

01.04.2012

Ovidiu Wencz, general manager of Dona pharmacy chain, says the Romanian drug retailer will rely on expansion, while seeking to improve efficiency. more

09.29.2011

Romanian private healthcare provider Regina Maria launched Thursday in Bucharest its first pharmacy and its largest clinic, within the same project, following an investment of EUR2 million. more

09.14.2011

Mihai Miron, one of the best-known entrepreneurs in the drug industry, plans to grow his Ropharma pharmacy chain to 115 by the end of this year, from 99 at the end of 2010. more