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

03.09.2021

Dozens of plants – furniture, cosmetics, food or construction supplies factories, have been taken down in the past two decades to make room for DIY stores, hypermarkets, malls and apartment more

02.17.2021

Help Net, the third leading pharmaceutical retailer by number of pharmacies in Romania, posted EUR209 million (some RON1 billion) sales in 2020, the company said in a release. more

02.04.2021

Deliveries of modern retail space this year will amount to about 60,000 square meters, a decrease of about 50% compared with 2020, real estate consultancy company Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said more

02.03.2021

New consumer and mortgage loans in lei and euros consumers took from banks fell by some RON2.7 billion or 7% from the 2019 level to RON34.3 billion in 2020. Last year was the first of decline for new more

01.25.2021

Real estate developers bought some EUR300 million worth of land in 2020 to build homes and residential projects, real estate consultant Colliers Romania says. However, they either did not buy land for more

01.11.2021

At least six new DIY stores should open in Romania in the next two years. They will be part of the Leroy Merlin, Hornbach and MAM Bricolaj, data centralized by ZF from the announcements of the more

12.17.2020

Local modern retail stores, about 3,500 in various formats, are valued at a little less than EUR10 billion (46 billion lei) in 2020, 21% higher than in 2019. more

12.14.2020

Romanians spent more than 20 billion lei in pharmacies last year, as their medicine and food supplement purchases rose by 8% in 2019 year on year, Trade Register data show. more

12.08.2020

German discount fashion store chain Kik has grown to 54 stores in Romania after having opened 17 in several cities of the country during the pandemic. more

12.03.2020

Retail sales in Romania grew 1.3% on the month in October and 1.8% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, as sales of non-food items grew 3.3%, food sales grew 3.8% and fuel sales more

11.05.2020

Retail sales in Romania grew 0.4% on the month in September and 1.7% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, as sales of non-food items grew 5.3%, fuel sales dropped 3.1% and food more

11.03.2020

Romania’s modern retail space stock, made up of shopping centers, retail parks and retail galleries, has exceeded the level of 4 million square meters, but the market growth rate is expected to slow more

11.03.2020

Nearly one third of retailers had similar or higher sales in the third quarter compared with the same period in 2019 although 85% registered a drop in traffic, a survey by real estate consultancy more