Reporter
Cristina Roșca
- Fields
- Companies, Retail&Consumer, Analysis
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 493
Airport Restaurants Apply 50%-100% Price Hikes Compared To City
Prices in restaurants on the Otopeni Airport are 50% to 100% higher than in the city, according to a ZF analysis, with airport restaurants making twice as much revenue as a city restaurant.
Subway Plans To Open 60 Restaurants In Romania By 2015
Subway, the world’s largest restaurant chain by the number of outlets (nearly 35,000 worldwide), plans to open 60 restaurants on the Romanian market by 2015. This is the first official figur...
Promenade Shoe Stores, Latest Bet Of Otter Shareholders
After having kept a low profile for more than two years, Filip Schwartz, major shareholder and CEO of Otter Distribution, is coming up with a new action plan, a footwear store network, which...
Romanian Consumers Want Low Prices And Prefer Stores Closer To Home
Hundreds of small stores - supermarkets and discount stores - have opened in the last few years. On the other hand, there are just a handful of hypermarkets and cash&carry stores that cover...
Personal Care Product Prices In Romania, Highest In The Region - Survey
Romanians pay 48 eurocents for a bar of soap, while Hungarians pay 21 eurocents and Poles pay 24 cents. A tube of toothpaste costs 1.8 euros in Romania, compared to 1.19 euros in Bulgaria an...
Romanians’ Preferences When They Eat Out: Slow Food Or Fast Food?
Bucharest residents prefer to go out and eat in fast-food restaurants, while people in the rest of Romania tend to eat in traditional restaurants, according to a market survey by Unilever Fo...
Retailers' Private Labels Defy Crisis With 50% Growth
On a retail market where the price battle is fierce, the private labels of major retailers, unknown until not long ago, have been gaining ground.
Carrefour Sales Per Store Lower Than In 2001
Ten years after Carrefour opened its first store in Romania, marking the start of "capitalism" in retail, the French retailer has managed to stabilize its hypermarket sales at just over EUR1...
Jolidon Keeps Only Romanian Stores
Jolidon, one of the few Romanian brands that had succeeded in building a network of almost 150 stores in Romania and abroad, had to close its foreign units, ZF learnt from Jolidon’s Italian...
Domo's Sale Enters Finishing Straight
The sale electronics and home appliances retailer Domo has entered the finishing straight, as bids need to be submitted by July 15, according to Lorand Szarvadi, founder and minority shareho...
How To Make EUR18M Profit By Selling Cosmetics Through Catalogs
Direct cosmetics sales company Avon Romania generated turnover worth 479.4 million lei (EUR114 million) in 2010, up EUR2 million from the previous year, and similar to the company's all-time...
Petrescu, City Grill: From Restaurants To Catering To Private Hospitals
Dragos Petrescu, owner of the City Grill restaurant chain and manager of the "Caru' cu Bere" restaurant, is tapping into a new market segment - catering for private hospitals. He has signed...