Retail&Consumer
Coca-Cola Hasn't Named New Head Four Months After Calin Dragan’s Departure
Coca-Cola HBC Romania, the largest company on the local beverage market, enters the fourth month with interim general manager Michalis Imellos at the helm, after the move of former head Cali...
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...
Profi To Launch 25 Stores In 2012
Retailer Profi plans to open more than 25 stores nationwide next year, general manager Pawel Musial said Wednesday.
Romania Retail Trade Posts Deepest Fall In EU In August
Romania posted the sharpest monthly drop among EU countries in terms of retail trade in August, according to data published Wednesday by EU statistics office Eurostat.
Spanish Brands To Change Face Of Unirea Shopping Center
Unirea Bucharest, a shopping center with a 30-year history, will change its outer appearance by the end of the year, with the advertising panels that have covered the shopping center in the...
Obi Romania Drops Expansion Plans For 2011
DIY retailer Obi Romania, owned by German group Tengelmann, will not go through with its plans to open new stores in 2011, because of the economic crisis and a failure to agree with real est...
Romania August Adjusted Retail Sales -3% On Month
Romanian adjusted retail sales fell 3% in August compared with a month earlier, due to declines in most sectors, the statistics institute INS said Tuesday.
A Happy Entrepreneur: 2011 Was Better Than 2010
Marex Braila, with food industry and farming operations, is set to see turnover rise by 5% this year, to EUR153 million, according to Marin Moraru, the general manager and a stakeholder in t...
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.