03.14.2016

Construction materials distributor Arabesque will open its 19th store in Romania, in Pitesti city, on March 24, following EUR10 million investments, the company said in a statement. more

03.14.2016

German retailer Lidl, part of Lidl & Schwartz group, will open its first store in Radauti town, northeastern Romania, reaching 194 units in Romania, the company said in a statement Monday. more

03.14.2016

Sports equipment retailer Hervis will open on Thursday its first store in Hunedoara, following EUR1 million investment, thus reaching a 16-unit network in Romania, the company said in a statement more

02.29.2016

Swedish apparel retailer Hennes&Mauritz (H&M) on Monday said it will be opening its first store in Satu Mare (northwestern Romania), in shopping center Satu Mare Shopping Plaza, on Thursday (March 3). more

02.29.2016

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin will open a store in Targu Mures on March 11, its eleventh Romanian unit, after remodeling one of the 15 stores acquired from Austrian company bauMax. more

02.19.2016

German retailer Lidl, part of Lidl & Schwartz group, will open next Thursday a new store in Busteni town, central Romania, reaching 193 units in Romania. more

02.10.2016

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin will open its second store in Cluj-Napoca and the tenth store in Romania next week, the company announced Wednesday. more

01.25.2016

German-held food retailer Kaufland will open its eleventh store in Bucharest on Wednesday, bringing its local network to 108 stores, the company said in a statement. more

01.22.2016

Modern retail accounts for less than one quarter of the total number of grocery stores in Central and Eastern Europe, yet it contributes 75% of the total business, according to ZF’s calculations more

01.19.2016

More than 40 new stores opened in six of the largest malls in Bucharest in the fourth quarter of 2015, trying to compete over a more than EUR600 million yearly shopping budget, according to ZF more

01.06.2016

Discount store operator Rewe Romania, which has two brands on the local market – Penny Market and XXL Mega Discount, wants to open 20 to 25 stores annually over the next few years for a total of more

01.05.2016

Modern retailers opened almost 200 new stores in 2015, keeping the same expansion pace as in the last few years. They mostly opened smaller stores, that is supermarkets and convenience stores. more

12.23.2015

Supermarket chain Mega Image will be opening Thursday its fourth Concept Store in capital Bucharest (in northern Baneasa area), being the retailer’s largest store in Romania. more

12.21.2015

Noriel Group, a toy retailer, distributor and manufacturer, wants to reach 100 stores in Romania in five years, twice as many as it has today and three times higher revenue, EUR100 million. more

12.14.2015

German retailer Lidl, part of German group Lidl & Schwartz, will be opening a new store on December 21, in Suceava, reaching 192 units in Romania. more

12.03.2015

Sporting goods retailer Decathlon on Thursday said it will open in Targu Jiu, on December 11, its 16th store in Romania. more

12.01.2015

The second Debenhams store in Romania will open in Plaza Romania mall in the southwestern Bucharest district Drumul Taberei on December 3, instead of September as initially planned. more

11.30.2015

Belgian-held retailer Mega Image, which operates several store formats and brands in Romania, has grown to 456 stores in the country, after having opened 46 supermarkets and convenience stores since more

11.26.2015

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin will be re-opening next week under its own brand, in central city of Sibiu, one of the 15 stores it had acquired from Austrian bauMax in 2014. more

11.17.2015

The closing of the 75 brick-and-mortar stores of computer and electronics retailer Domo gives a chance for expansion to its direct competitors Flanco and Altex, which will take over more than ten more

11.16.2015

Computer and electronics retailer Domo, one of the largest in its business, will close all its brick-and-mortar stores to focus only on online operations, market sources say. more

10.27.2015

French DIY retailer Leroy Merlin will open a store in Cluj-Napoca on November 6, remodeling a former bauMax store, after buying the network in 2014. more

10.15.2015

Metro Cash&Carry and Selgros, two of the largest companies in Romania by revenue (EUR1 billion and EUR635 million), are about to end the fourth year without any new stores. more

10.14.2015

Do-it-yourself retailer Hornbach Romania opened Wednesday its sixth store in Romania, in central city of Sibiu, following investments of nearly EUR12 million, the company said in a statement. more

10.02.2015

Kika Romania, a company that operates a furniture and home décor store in the western side of Bucharest, will open three or four stores in the city and the rest of the country by the end of next more