Overview of Romania Hardware & Fastener Market
Bricostore, the biggest hardware and fastener hypermarket in Romania, has 27 stores covering Romania, Hungary and Croatia among which the store in Bucharest is the largest-scale with the highest turnover growth.
As the largest hardware and fastener importer in Romania, Sea Romania was established in 1991 and started to import in 1995. With 3,000 of employees, the company has over 30,000 of product items and lots of warehouses whose storage is enough to supply the domestic need.
Compared to other near EU countries, Romania has a hardware and fastener market that, though not leading ahead, has grown and been driven steadily owing to the new industrial developments after the financial crisis. In 2011, the import value of Romania hardware and fastener market reached EUR250 million among which fasteners accounted for 40%, which shows a great potential to grow.