Retail&Consumer
Kingfisher Seeks Consolidation This Year, Eyes Future Expansion
UK's Kingfisher, owner of DIY retailers Brico Dépôt and Praktiker, seeks to consolidate its business this year and considers expansion in the future, said Adela Smeu, CEO of Brico Dépôt.
Mega Image Set to Hire 1,100 People to Keep Up with Expansion
Retailer Mega Image, which has grown to more than 670 stores in Romania, has about 1,170 jobs available at the moment, most of them for cashiers, store clerks, sales assistants, National Emp...
Omer Susli, Homelux Retail Chain Owner: I Don’t Fall in Love with a Business
Businessman Omer Susli, who sold the DIY retailer Praktiker to UK’s Kingfisher, is getting ready to open a Homelux store in Bucharest, as part of the new retail chain he is developing. The s...
Premier Capital, Development Partner Of McDonald’s, To Open 13 New Restaurants In 2019
Maltese company Premier Capital, the development partner of McDonald’s in six European countries, opened ten restaurants in 2018 and plans to open 13 more in 2019, as part of a EUR64 million...
Hervis Set to Open 10 Stores in 2019
Sporting goods retail chain Hervis will open ten stores this year, after having inaugurated seven in 2018. The retailer will therefore end 2019 with 40 stores, almost double the 2017 number.
3 Sqm of Mall Space for Each Person in Bucharest
The ten largest shopping centers in Bucharest have a surface area of almost 600,000 square meters and about 1,500 stores, ZF has calculated from the data supplied by companies themselves or,...
Coffee Shop Chain 5 to go Opens Group’s Largest Unit, In Downtown Bucharest
Coffee shop chain 5 to go, a franchise developed by Radu Savopol and Lucian Badila, has opened the group’s largest unit, in downtown Bucharest, under the Coffee Studio by 5 to go concept, de...
Mega Image Buys Zanfir Supermarket Chain
Belgian-Dutch retailer Mega Image on Thursday said it acquired the Zanfir supermarket chain in Vrancea County, held by the same-name family, after getting the approval of Romania’s Competiti...
Retailer Kitchen Shop Grows to 18 Stores and EUR10M Sales
Kitchen equipment retailer Kitchen Shop, a Romanian concept launched by entrepreneur Laurentiu Ilie ten years ago, has grown to 18 stores and about EUR10 million sales.