Reporter
Cristina Roșca
- Fields
- Companies, Retail&Consumer, Analysis
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 493
Retailers Open Stores Next To Each Other In Most Populated Areas To Eat Up The Competition
No fewer than four Mega Image stores are located along Bucharest's Stefan cel Mare boulevard. Not one store of competitors Profi or Carrefour is to be found on the same street or in the vici...
Albalact Defies Consumer Spending Decline With 34% Higher Sales In First Nine Months
Albalact Alba Iulia, the largest independent dairy producer posted 246.2 million lei (EUR56.5 million) sales in the first nine months, up 34.32% on the same period of 2010.
What Romanians Buy When They Go Shopping
Carbonated soft drinks, mineral water and roasted coffee are the products that account for the highest share in Romanians’ food basket, in terms of value and not in terms of consumer basket...
Lidl On Course To Pass 125-Store Mark
Lidl Romania, the German retailer that embarked upon the most aggressive expansion campaign, will open at least six stores by yearend and is on course to overshoot the 125 mark on this marke...
Altex Bets On Expansion
Altex, the largest electronics, home appliances and IT products retailer in Romania by sales, has opened eight stores this year and has three more planned by yearend. Total investments amoun...
It Will Be Another 5-7 Years Until The Historic Center Becomes A Fashion Hub
Bucharest’s historic center is dominated by restaurants, coffee shops and bars, which occupy more than half the available spaces, whereas fashion stores, which tend to dominate the centers o...
Romanians Cut Back On Soft Drinks, Bleaching Products And Frozen Fish
Romanians cut back on soft drinks, frozen vegetables and bleaching products in the first six months of the year. The biggest losers - teeth whiteners, bath foam and frozen fish recorded over...
First Foreign Modern Retailer To Call It Quits: G’Market Closes Last Store
Retailer G’Market, owned by Turkey’s FIBA group, closed the store in the Hala Centrala shopping center in downtown Iasi (NE Romania) in mid-October. This was its last store on the market.
Lufthansa's Winter Strategy: Bring Foreign Tourists To Romania
Lufthansa, one of the world's top ten airlines by number of passengers, has announced that Romania was the European market with the largest percentage increase in passenger traffic this year...
Modern Retail Has Room For 400 More Stores, Four Counties Have Maximum Development Potential
Only four counties in Romania and Bucharest have maximum potential for expansion as far as food retailers are concerned, while 15 counties have low development potential.
Discount Retailers Prevail After Doubling Networks In Three Years
The discount retailers seem to emerge as the winners of the crisis, having opened over 220 stores throughout Romania from 2008 through 2011 and reached EUR1.2 billion sales on a modern retai...
Adesgo's Story: How An 85-Year Old Plant Produces Under Cacharel And Victoria Street Brands
With an 85-year history, 370 employees and a plant in downtown Bucharest, hosiery producer Adesgo is battling with foreign brands such as Gatta or Golden Point.