11.04.2024

Focsani-based textile manufacturer Pandora Prod, owned by the Simiz family, posted RON292.2 million (more than EUR59 million) revenue in 2023, up almost 35% from the previous year’s RON216.6 million more

07.03.2024

Braila-based apparel manufacturer Braiconf is asking the government to act to save Romania’s textile industry, which is losing annually hundreds or even thousands of plants. more

11.16.2023

Romanian-owned textile manufacturer Pandora Prod in Focsani posted RON216.6 million (about EUR44 million) revenue in 2022, up 31.6% from the previous year’s almost RON164.6 million (EUR33.4 more

09.25.2023

Textile manufacturer Tanex, which has two plants, one in Bucharest and another in Valenii de Munte, Prahova County, posted RON94 million (about EUR19 million) revenue in 2022, up almost 47% from the more

10.12.2022

Time International textile factory in Alexandria, Teleorman, which started mask production during the pandemic, is still making masks, but a much lower capacity compared with the beginning of the more

02.24.2022

Erol Baeram, general manager of Cottontex, a textile industry company owning six production units in Romania, says the workforce problem is intensifying, with young people shunning this industry. more

12.16.2021

Techtex, a company specializing in the production of technical textiles, expects to end this year with RON120 million revenue, up 15-20% on the previous year, and next year with RON200 million next more

09.06.2021

Time International, which had production facilities in Alexandria, Teleorman County in southern Romania, has switched to masks from textile production, the industry it started in 27 years ago. more

06.24.2021

Romania made RON18.3 billion worth of clothing, fibers and footwear last year, RON3.7 billion less than in 2019, as the pandemic took a toll on the figures, ZF has found from Trade Register data. more

02.18.2019

Romania, one of the leading manufacturers of apparel and footwear in Europe and even in the world, has become too expensive a destination for some actors in the industry, even though the average wage more

02.14.2019

Hanes Global Supply Chain Romania, formerly Rosko Textil, has closed the plant it had in Arad-Curtici Free Trade Zone, market sources say. more

03.07.2017

Alison Hayes, the largest textile manufacturer in Romania by revenue in 2015, has decided to close its plant in Urziceni, southern Romania, which is currently employing 350 people. more

07.12.2016

Romania is known as one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the world, ranking 14th among the world’s exporters with $1.3 billion worth of footwear shipped abroad. more

09.24.2015

Pandora Prod, a clothing manufacturer based in Vrancea County (eastern Romania) and held by the Simiz family, exports its entire production made by the 1,300 employees in the three facilities in more

06.08.2015

Apparel manufacturer Artifex, which works for major fashion brands like Hugo Boss, Massimo Dutti, Lacoste Premium and COS, expects revenue to reach 150 million lei (EUR34 million) this year, 25% more

03.23.2015

The apparel made in Romania for H&M, Zara and C&A leaves the local plants, goes to Western Europe to distribution centers and comes back at two to three times the starting prices. more

02.06.2015

Romania’s 500 largest exporters in 2014 include almost 80 fabric, apparel and footwear manufacturers whose cumulated revenue stood at about 7 billion lei (EUR1.6 billion) in 2013, according to the more

01.08.2014

Romania’s minister-delegate for small and medium-sized businesses Maria Grapini told Mediafax that the textile industry lacks professional sewers and weavers, triggering losses in export contracts more

07.22.2011

The situation of the textile industry in recent years is best reflected in the evolution of Braiconf, one of the oldest domestic brands: in 2005, shareholders complained about the high personnel more