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

05.20.2021

Discount grocery retail chains had their best year in Romania in 2020, posting sales of more than EUR3.5 billion with more than 550 stores, 60 of which newly opened, ZF has found. more

05.06.2021

Retail sales in Romania, excluding vehicle sales, grew 13.3% on the month in March and by 2.3% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, data from the country’s statistics institute more

05.05.2021

Total industrial leasing activity in Romania grew 43% on the year in the first quarter, to 264,400 square meters, real estate consultancy company CBRE said in a report. more

04.30.2021

Retail pharmacy network Catena, the largest actor in pharmaceutical retail in Romania, posted more than RON4.7 billion sales in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. more

04.28.2021

Corporate loans have become the lending driver in Romania, with the volume going up 14.4% to RON81.9 billion in March over the year-ago month. more

04.27.2021

Cris-Tim group, one of the largest cold cuts producers in Romania, is looking for space in good locations to expand its own retail chain in 2021, its officials say. more

04.26.2021

Sales in the food retail sector are estimated at around RON130 billion in 2020 compared with sales of RON118 billion in 2019, according to a KeysFin analysis. more

04.20.2021

The second-hand fashion market in Romania is developing like the regular fashion market, so retail and chains are emerging. This market started taking shape in Romania more than a decade ago but did more

04.05.2021

Retail sales in Romania grew 0.2% on the month in February and 0.6% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, as sales of non-food items grew 0.2%, food sales grew 2.8% and fuel sales more

04.02.2021

Retail developers have set out to conquer the last “strongholds”, counties that lacked modern retail project, and last year delivered the first modern retail projects in four new counties – more

03.18.2021

Real estate developers delivered some 142,400 square meters of new modern retail spaces in 2020, little over half of the estimates before the Covid-19 pandemic, of approximately 250,000 sqm, because more

03.16.2021

The fight for the top position in the modern grocery retail in Romania is becoming tighter, and the biggest actors are growing constantly and becoming bigger. The most powerful five groups – Schwarz more