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Irish fashion retailer Primark has confirmed the opening dates for its next two stores in Romania, with its first Bacău location opening at the Arena Mall shopping center on November 17, 2026, followed by its third Bucharest store at the Sun Plaza shopping center on November 26.
In Romania, the advantage of low costs has significantly eroded during 2021-2024, when labor costs grew faster than labor productivity, and, for the next stage of economic convergence, it is necessary to reverse this trend, show the findings of a research by Consilium Policy Advisors Group (CPAG) on globalization and economic convergence in Central and Eastern Europe.
Mondelēz International has appointed Petar Sogindolski managing director for Romania, effective November 1, 2026.
Romania’s industrial and logistics market continues to expand, with the modern stock reaching 8.17 million square meters at the end of third quarter of 2026, following the delivery of almost 340,000 square meters in the first nine months of the year, according to the Romania Industrial Marketbeat Q3 2026 report by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Romania’s beer market shrank again in 2026, preliminary data from the Brewers of Romania Association show, after having dropped to an all-time low of 14.4 million hectoliters in 2025.
The wholesale market of medicines and pharmaceutical products in Romania stood at EUR14.5 billion in 2025, 9% more than in 2024, reveals a sectoral analysis by ICAP CRIF Romania, a provider of credit risk solutions and business intelligence in Southeast Europe.
Luca has gone beyond the threshold of 200 pretzel shops in Romania and Poland, all of them operated directly.
Swiss giant Nestlé, one of the leading actors in the FMCG industry, which has import and distribution operations in Romania, increased its revenue in this country by 4.4% in the first nine months of this year. More than half of the growth came from higher volumes, while the rest came from price increases.
H&M, one of the world’s largest actors in the fashion retail industry, is officially entering the secondhand market in Romania. More precisely, its online secondhand product store Sellpy is launching an official site there.
Private companies in Romania taking part in the PwC PayWell 2026 study expect base salaries to rise by an average of 5.65% in 2027, following increases of 6.67% in 2026 and 7.47% in 2025.
The industrial and logistics property market has been one of the most dynamic segments of the Romanian real estate sector in recent years, but it is now beginning to feel the brunt of the political crisis, the decline in purchasing power, and reduced investor interest in Romania.
Polish energy projects developer R.Power is now progressing with its second utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Romania as it continues to build its presence as an energy storage leader in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Greek group HELLENiQ ENERGY is accelerating its expansion in Romania renewable energy field, planning to develop at least 50 MW of battery electricity storage capacity in the next three years.
Romania’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market recorded 212 transactions between January and September 2026, slightly fewer than 215 deals reported in the same period of 2025, according to an analysis by EY.
The 12,943 companies ranked among the top 10 positions in each county generated a combined turnover of EUR300 billion and an operating profit of EUR26.5 billion, according to the 2026 National Ranking of Companies compiled by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR).
The foreign direct investment (FDI) stock in the real estate transactions sector reached approximately €22.1 billion at the end of 2025, the equivalent of 16.4% in of Romania’s total FDI stock, according to data from the National Bank of Romania analyzed by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
The euro reached a new all-time high against the leu on Tuesday (October 6), as Romania’s central bank published a reference exchange rate of RON5.3527 per euro, up from the RON5.3306 on Monday (October 5).
P3 Romania, the Cluj-Napoca software and engineering center of the German group of the same name, went up by 16.6% in 2025, to RON82.1 million (EUR16.3 million), the highest level in the company’s history.
The number of companies and PFAs (authorized private individuals) that entered insolvency proceeding in Romania reached 4,782 in the first eight months of 2026, up 4.85% from the year-earlier period, reveals a Sierra Quadrant analysis based on data from the National Trade Registry Office.
Mixed-use, urban regeneration complexes Iulius Town Timisoara and Palas Iasi, together with the Iulius Mall network in the cities of Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Suceava, are the first locations of a national shopping mall operator to be fully integrated into Generatik, Romania’s first platform dedicated to digitalizing indoor advertising in shopping centers.
