The METRO Group has reported a drop in sales for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year. The group, which had issued a profit warning before Christmas, said that sales in the fourth quarter dipped by   read more...

The local branch of beer producer SABMiller, Ursus Breweries, reported a 6% drop in volumes sold in Q4 2011. According to the company’s financial report, volumes in Poland were also down by 6% reflecting   read more...

Carrefour’s Romanian division reported a 0.7% drop in its 2011 full-year sales compared to 2010, to EUR 1.18bn (including VAT) on LFL basis. Considering the retailer’s local expansion, sales rose by 5.4% in   read more...

Belgian retailer Delhaize is going to open twenty new stores in Serbia, close seven unprofitable ones and renovate forty others. The optimisation of its retail network will also take place in Bosnia   read more...

Supermarket chain Mega Image opened its fourth store of 2012, the new unit being located in Bucharest’s District 2. With the opening from January 20st, Mega Image chain reached 109 units, of which   read more...

MIC.RO chain recently closed its stores without making any official announcement. In this context, several informations regarding the sale of the retailer have started to emerge on the market. At the   read more...

Schwarz Group-owned Lidl has said it will increase its store count in Bulgaria to 65 by the end of the calendar year 2012. The discount retailer operated 54 outlets nationwide as of December, employing a   read more...

Kandia Dulce SA and Supreme Chocolat announced the joining of the two companies within Kandia Group, the new administrators of Supreme Chocolat being Mihut Craciun (General Manager of Kandia   read more...

Gabriela Petrea, CEO of Agrana Romania, local branch of the Austrian group Agrana and the largest Romanian sugar producer, speaks with trust about the new year after a 2011 in which the company’s   read more...

Magnit, Russia’s second-largest grocery chain, has announced plans to speed up the opening of new stores across the country, after reporting better-than-expected growth for 2011. The group said it   read more...

Up to 50% of edible and healthy food gets wasted in EU households, supermarkets, restaurants and along the food supply chain each year, while 79 million EU citizens live beneath the poverty line and 16   read more...

Carrefour in Spain has launched Plan 65+, a new initiative that offers a VAT charge deduction of 4-8% on daily groceries to over 65s. The scheme applies to 4,000 products including meat, fish, vegetables   read more...

French grocer Carrefour has closed its City Café store in Bordeaux, LSA reports. The pilot convenience outlet, which opened in December 2010, did not perform as expected as it was "was very dependent   read more...

Rewe International, the Austrian arm of German retailer Rewe Group, has taken full control of meat producer Efef. Rewe International has acquired the remaining 24% minority stakes held by regional   read more...

Schwarz Group-owned discounter Lidl in the UK is looking to build a non-food outlet in Ely, Cambridgeshire, after repeatedly failing to obtain permission for a food store. As reported by the Cambridge News   read more...

Nestlé UK has unveiled proposals for a further Ł200m extension to its Nescafé factory in Tutbury, Derbyshire. The group said that this is a new stage in the transformation of the Tutbury factory, in addition   read more...

Swiss grocery retailer Migros has reported 2011 group revenues of USD 27.9 billion, down by 0.9% year-on-year. Retail revenue declined 0.7% to USD23.7 billion in light of a 2.8% decrease   read more...

Rewe Group-owned Penny in Germany has started to deploy QR codes to provide shoppers with product information, Lebensmittel Zeitung reports. QR codes have been added to the discounter's   read more...