The Romanian management consulting market is poised to grow by nearly 7% annually over the next decade, amid accelerated digital transformation, cost optimization pressure and a growing need for organizational efficiency, according to Horváth, a global management consulting company active in the Romanian market since 2005.
Romanian retail sales fell 4.0% month-on-month in August 2025 and, excluding the pandemic lockdown period, this is the largest monthly drop since the 2009-10 crisis, according to a survey by ING Bank.
More than 119,500 housing units were sold across Romania in January-September 2025, down only 0.3% compared to the same period of 2024, reveals a report by real estate consultancy SVN Romania based on official statistics of the National Agency for Cadaster and Land Registration.
Modern retail has increasingly focused lately on small and medium-sized cities, as localities with below 50,000 inhabitants have a modern commercial space stock of around 70 square meters per 1.000 inhabitants, a value that is 2 to 11 times lower than in the other countries of the CEE-6 group (Bulgaria, Czechia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary), according to Colliers.
The OTC drug and food supplement market ended the first eight months of 2025 with a 2% increase in volume, but an 11% advance in value and is set to end the year with 2-3% annual growth supported by VAT hike, estimates Liviu Ungureanu, general manager of PlantExtrakt.
Marigab Com of Turceni, Gorj county, controlled by local entrepreneurs, specialized in food retail, has started building the EUR8 million hotel near Turceni with Just Transition money.
Oyl Company Holding, an Ialomita County road construction company owned by entrepreneur Corneliu Dragomir, posted RON264.8 million (EUR53.2 million) revenue in 2024, down 13.2% from the previous year’s RON305.2 million (EUR61.7 million), according to ZF calculations based on Finance Ministry data.