Retail&Consumer
Romanian Retailers Stand Strong Against Kaufland, Cora And Carrefour
Eight Romanian entrepreneurs are fighting modern retail bigwigs like Kaufland, Carrefour and Penny Market on equal footing, and rank among the top 20 local retail players. Businesspeople lik...
Kandia And Primola Team Up To Fight Multinationals On Romanian Chocolate Market
Two Romanian chocolate makers have joined forces to cope with competition from multinationals: Kandia – a brand that has been around for 120 years in a confectionery market that switched fro...
Ten Most Powerful Executives In FMCG Industry Run An Almost EUR4B Business
Only one Romanian entrepreneur, Octavian Cretu, owner of Borsec mineral waters bottler, made it among the largest ten fast moving consumer goods companies in Romania this year, while the res...
McDonald’s Ends Year With No New Restaurants, But They Will Come In 2012
U.S. fast food chain McDonald’s has focused its investments on remodeling already existing restaurants and on the opening of new McCafe coffee shops, leaving new restaurant openings for 2012...
Cluj Entrepreneurs Start Exports Of La Colline Cheese
The dairy business founded by the Spanu family, owner of the La Colline cheese brand, currently exports between 30% and 50% of its products to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Karousos, Germanos: Sales Seasonality As We Know It No Longer Exists
This year has been an atypical one, a “weird” one even for the Romanian GSM retail market, with sales no longer following the seasonality they used to in the past - six weaker months, follow...
Romania Must Meet EU Requirements On Milk Quality By End-2013
Romania has until December 31, 2013 to get in line with the EU's requirements on raw cow milk, having been granted an extra year for the transition, the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food...
Doehler Romania Boss: Invest In Non-Carbonated Drinks And Beer Mixes
Eberhart Raducanu, general manager of Doehler Romania, a company that sells ingredients and concentrates for the beverage and foods industry, says beer mixes and non-carbonated drinks have t...
Austrian Meinl Family, Owner Of Kandia, Buys Primola Chocolate From Jabra Brothers
Chocolate manufacturer Kandia, one of the best-known brands on the local market, is about to take over the Supreme Chocolat group, owner of the Primola brand. The deal is already on the desk...