08.06.2013

German discount retail chain Lidl plans to open stores on the lands of two former industrial platforms which used to accommodate Ursus beer plant in Cluj (northwestern Romania) and Poiana chocolate more

07.30.2013

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will open two Shop&Go stores Wednesday, in capital city Bucharest and Pitesti, expanding its local network to 238 units. more

07.29.2013

Sales of non-oil products sold at gas stations exceeded EUR600 million last year, according to ZF calculations based on data provided by oil companies, which say such products generated 10% of their more

07.25.2013

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will open a Shop&Go store and a Mega Image unit in capital city Bucharest Friday. more

07.24.2013

The twelve modern retailers operating the Romanian market have spent EUR50 million to EUR60 million since the beginning of 2013 to open 84 new stores and one of them, Mega Image, has opened half of more

07.09.2013

No potential investor has expressed interest in buying bankrupt PIC retail network whose stores were put up for sale more than a year ago by the company’ judicial administrator more

07.04.2013

Dragos Dinu, who took over as CEO of electronics and IT retailer Domo at the beginning of this year, says he plans to build an outlet store chain with national coverage. more

06.13.2013

Casa Rusu, the retail division of Timisoara-based furniture producer Rus Savitar, will open two stores Friday, in the western Romanian cities of Oradea and Arad, following an investment of EUR300,000. more

05.27.2013

More than half of Romanian households have shopped at discount stores at least once, and the average shopping frequency in such stores is twice a month, according to a GfK Romania survey released more

05.22.2013

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, is opening two Shop&Go stores in Pitesti and Bucharest, and two Mega Image supermarkets in Ploiesti and Bucharest, on Wednesday and Thursday. more

05.22.2013

Sales of modern retail chains in Romania saw a 3% increase to EUR6.77 billion in 2012, backed by the opening of more than 100 new stores. Although total sales saw a slight increase, sales per store, more

05.20.2013

Retailer Cora, controlled by French-Belgian group Louis Delhaize, expanded its chain from three to 10 hypermarkets between 2010 and 2012, but this is not seen in sales, which have been stuck at around more

05.17.2013

French retailer Cora will open a shopping center in Constanta, southeastern Romania, at the end of July and will open its hypermarket in Ploiesti, southern Romania, and its coradrive.ro online store more

05.10.2013

Insolvent pastry shop chain Fornetti plans to open 15 stores a month by the end of the year so as to reach a total of 120 new units in late 2013, says chief executive Csaba Toth. more

04.25.2013

Retailer Profi, controlled by Polish private equity firm Enterprise Investors, opened two new stores Wednesday and Thursday in Galati (eastern Romania) and in Santana town (western county of Arad), more

04.23.2013

Neuhaus Romania, the franchise of one of the most expensive chocolate brands in the world, wants to open two more stores in Bucharest this year. Its store in Baneasa Shopping City (north of Bucharest) more

04.19.2013

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will open six Shop&Go stores in the central city of Brasov on Friday and Saturday. more

04.15.2013

Cosmetics producer Yves Rocher, which has been operating a retail network and mail order sales system in Romania for more than a decade, plans to open ten new stores in the next eighteen months, more

04.12.2013

Kaufland, the largest retailer in Romania, plans to open stores in the local malls after having preferred standalone stores or stores in retail parks, sources close to the company say. more

04.12.2013

A handful of designers in Paulesti, southern Romania, are sketching dresses and tops for H&M which reach the shelves of stores all over the world. more

04.02.2013

Kaufland, the largest retailer in Romania, will be testing a new store format of about 2,000 square meter retail area, the same as used by a large supermarket. more

03.14.2013

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will open two Shop&Go stores in capital city Bucharest Friday and Saturday, expanding its national network to 205 units. more

03.13.2013

Profi will become Romania's second largest retail network from April, after the country’s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday approved Profi's takeover of the six-store chain of Cluj-based company more

03.13.2013

Romania's antitrust watchdog on Wednesday said it has approved the transaction whereby retailer Profi took over the six-store network of Cluj-based company Alimrom Trading. more

02.22.2013

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will open two new stores Friday, in capital city Bucharest, bringing its Romanian network to 200 units, the retailer said. more