The most expensive bread in the EU is in Denmark, while in Bulgaria and Poland bread prices are 70% below the European average.
Romania is EU’s biggest bread consumer, with average consumption per capita topping 90 kg in the last five years.
At the same time, bread manufacturing was the biggest market in the food industry last year, according to National Statistics Institute data. There are over 6,500 companies making bread and cakes, and their total turnover reached RON7 billion in 2020.
Moreover, the bread industry is the biggest employer in the food industry, with 50,000 jobs.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)