Reporter
Cristina Roșca
- Fields
- Companies, Retail&Consumer, Analysis
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 493
Retailer La Cocos Enters Oradea Market
Romanian retailer La Cocos, which now has German group Schwarz as a shareholder, will on June 17 open a store in Oradea, the eighth of the network.
Altex Budgets RON400M Investments for 2026
Altex Romania, the country's leading electro-IT retailer, has announced it will invest RON400 million this year to modernize and expand the store network and accelerate digital transformatio...
Lidl Stores Rake In Record High RON1.3B Profit in Romania with Fewer Employees
Lidl Discount SRL, the company that operates the store chain with the same name, in 2025 posted RON26.7 billion turnover, up 11%, and a record net gain of RON1.34 billion, 10% higher than in...
Mega Image Turnover Up 16% in 2025 YOY
Retailer Mega Image ended 2025 with turnover worth around RON12.3 billion, about 16% higher than in 2024.
German Group Schwarz Rakes In almost RONEUR10B Turnover in Romania in 2025
German group Schwarz neared the threshold of EUR10 billion (RON50 billion) turnover in Romania in 2025, thus controlling around one quarter of local food retail, in line with ZF calculations...
US Giant P&G Boosts Romania Plant Turnover by 20% in 2025
US giant Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s biggest consumer goods producers, which owns import, distribution, production and services operations locally, in 2025 boosted the turnover of R...
Starbucks Closes Down Coffee Shops in Romania, Blames Consumption Decline
US group Starbucks, present in Romania in a franchise system, shut down two coffee shops locally in early 2026.
German Giant Rewe Has EUR3B Investments Earmarked for Romania in 2025-2035 Period
Rewe has EUR3 billion investments budgeted in Romania in the 2025-2035 period and is set to double the network to 1,000 units.
Germany’s Karcher Set to Continue Investments in Romania
German group Karcher, which has bet RON600 million (EUR120 million) on Romania in the past decade, on three plants in Arges county, says it earmarks a budget of at least EUR10 million in 202...
Coffee Shop Chain Meron Set to Add Four-Five New Units in 2026
Coffee ship chain Meron, founded in Cluj-Napoca by Bogdan Ciocian, will add four-five new units this year, a slightly slower pace that in 2025, when the annual average was six-seven openings...
Beko Wants to Grow Arctic Brand
Beko group, one of the world’s biggest players in the electrical home appliances industry and leader of the European market, will continue to bet on Europe and Romania production, even as co...
Beauty Company Rituals Continues Expansion in Romania
Beauty company Rituals, which entered Romania in the autumn of 2024, accelerated expansion in Romania, opening nine stores last year. And it continues development.