09.17.2021

Wholesalers in the retail and hospitality sectors reached record sales in 2020, of RON16.6 billion, and are expected to touch a new record high, of RON18 billion, in 2021, per a Keysfin survey. more

09.15.2021

The real estate arm of Radacini Group, controlled by businessman Ali Madadi, plans to start construction works on two new retail centers, the first ones of the group, in Chitila and Pipera, more

09.08.2021

Profi retailer, controlled by Mid Europa Partners investment fund, opened 100 units in the first eight months of 2021. The initial target envisaged 250 new store openings in 2021, but the company is more

09.03.2021

The retail market recorded limited deliveries in the first half of 2021, as many projects were postponed during the pandemic and the price of construction materials rose a lot. About 60% of the more

09.03.2021

Retail sales in Romania, excluding vehicle sales, grew by 12.5% in the first seven months of the year on the year-ago period, and 7.6% in July on the year-ago month, National Statistics Institute data more

08.23.2021

French-owned Carrefour, which covers several store formats domestically, has 337 units in Romania. By yearend, the retailer will go beyond the 350-unit threshold, though. more

08.23.2021

German-held retailer Kaufland Romania, the second largest player in Romanian retail by turnover in 2020, is betting on store openings in small urban areas with around 20,000 inhabitants, with a more

08.11.2021

Profi store chain, controlled by Mid Europa Partners investment fund, is raising its bet on rural areas, with almost half of the 90 stores opened in 2021 being under the Loco format, destined to more

08.11.2021

German-held retailer Tedi, operating on the non-food segment, is readying to enter the Romanian market, already having 30 rental contracts signed, according to ZF sources. more

08.09.2021

Sales of beer dropped slightly by 2.3% in Romania last year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic that either had on-trade locations closed or comply with certain restrictions to operate for most of 2020, a more

08.09.2021

Angst group, one the largest meat processors in Romania, has three small specialist stores under its own brand operational at the moment and plans to continue development. more

08.06.2021

Cora is further expanding its Cora Express service by launching a new partnership with tazz, eMAG’s home delivery platform, for clients of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, Bacau, Drobeta and more

08.06.2021

In the first six months of 2021, international chains opened 170 units of the around 400 previously planned. Some networks are stepping up expansion in 2H to hit their target. more

08.05.2021

The biggest delivery companies in Romania, Glovo, Bringo, Tazz by eMAG and FoodPanda, last year generated turnover worth close to RON240 million. more

08.04.2021

Companies owning retail parks in Romania saw their turnover slide by just 9.5% in 2020, compared with a 20.6% decline for shopping malls, per a report by real estate consulting firm Cushman & more

08.04.2021

Retail sales in Romania, excluding vehicle sales, grew 3.2% on the month in June 2021 and by 0.1% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, data from the country’s statistics more

08.04.2021

Carrefour reshuffled its Romanian network in the first half of 2021 and has only 353 stores left, 16 fewer than at the end of 2020. However, its hypermarket format is the only one left with more more

08.03.2021

Delivery platforms have in recent years permanently and definitively changed the way the domestic food retail works, and the plans of companies such as Foodpanda or Glovo do not stop here. more

07.30.2021

Polish footwear retailer CCC, which manages the brand by the same name and other brands, posted PLN122.6 million (RON132 million) sales in Romania in the first quarter of its 2021 financial year more

07.19.2021

Germany’s fashion retail group Anson's, which operates large multibrand stores, will enter Romania with a store in the ParkLake mall in Bucharest, market sources say. more

07.12.2021

Eleni Skoura, executive director of the Retail Products & Segments division of BCR Erste, will take over the position of Head of Retail Banking and member of the Executive Committee of ING Bank more

06.17.2021

Smaller-sized retail parks located in tertiary cities are set to gain more ground over the next decade to the detriment of large shopping malls, an analysis by Colliers showed. more

06.04.2021

Retail sales in Romania, excluding vehicle sales, grew 5% on the month in April and by 1.2% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, data from the country’s statistics institute more

05.27.2021

Entrepreneur-owned grocery retail businesses ended the first year of the pandemic with growth of 10% to more than 20%. more

05.20.2021

The European grocery retail real estate market has remained resilient in the face of economic uncertainty, as the COVID-19 pandemic provided new opportunities for growth and increased investor more