Romania Snacks Market 2025

The Romania snacks market is anticipated to witness significant growth, with an expected uptick of USD 1.4 billion, equating to a CAGR of about 6.8% in the coming years. Romania’s snacks market is expanding along the axes of rural sourcing and urban convenience. Local producers are leveraging Romania’s vast agricultural diversity – sunflower seeds, maize, plums, and walnuts – to create snacks with minimal processing and high nutritional density. Government-backed rural development programs under the National Rural Development Plan are supporting small-scale producers with subsidies and market access tools, bringing authentic, farm-origin snacks into modern retail formats.

Urbanization is simultaneously accelerating demand for grab-and-go formats tailored to busy lifestyles. Retailers in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Iași are offering curated snack sections that reflect consumer preferences for high protein, low sugar, and unique flavor profiles. Cross-category innovation – such as meat-and-nut bars or fruit-and-grain crisps – is becoming common as consumers look for functional benefits without sacrificing convenience. Romanian snacks are no longer peripheral indulgences – they’re evolving into essential, health-conscious staples.

This report presents a detailed analysis of the Romania snacks market, offering six years of historical market size data and growth trends, as well as forward-looking estimates through 2030. It explores category-specific and subcategory dynamics, with a sharp focus on developments across product type and distribution channel.

Market Segmentation

The Romania snacks market is structured as follows:
Product type: confectionery (chocolate confectionery, gum, sugar confectionery), ice cream and frozen dessert (impulse ice creams, plant-based ice creams, take-home ice creams), savory snacks (corn and tortilla chips, nuts and seeds, popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, puffed snacks, rice snacks, savoury biscuits and crackers, vegetable and pulse chips), fruit snacks, snack bars, sweet biscuits (chocolate biscuits, cookies, plain biscuits, stuffed biscuits, wafers)
Distribution channel: convenience stores, discounters, e-commerce, food specialty stores, forecourts, hypermarkets, small grocery stores, supermarkets, others

The Romania snacks market is categorized by product type and distribution channel. The categorization of the market by product type includes confectionery (chocolate confectionery, gum, sugar confectionery), ice cream and frozen dessert (impulse ice creams, plant-based ice creams, take-home ice creams), savory snacks (corn and tortilla chips, nuts and seeds, popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, puffed snacks, rice snacks, savoury biscuits and crackers, vegetable and pulse chips), fruit snacks, snack bars, and sweet biscuits (chocolate biscuits, cookies, plain biscuits, stuffed biscuits, wafers). Distribution channel segmentation comprises convenience stores, discounters, e-commerce, food specialty stores, forecourts, hypermarkets, small grocery stores, supermarkets, and others.

Competitive Landscape

Within the competitive landscape, significant companies profiled in the report include Alka Co SRL, August Storck KG, Bestfoods Productions SRL, Bomboniera SRL, Boromir Ind S.A., Cereal Partners Worldwide S.A., Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG, Croco SRL, Dobrogea Grup S.A., ETI Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., European Food S.A., Ferrero International S.A., Ficosota Food EAD, Food Union Group, Glanbia Plc, Golden Foods DP, Grupa Maspex Wadowice, Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V., Haribo GmbH & Company KG, Intersnack Group GmbH & Co. KG, Kellanova, Kervan Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S, KEX Confectionery S.A., Ludwig Schokolade GmbH & Co. KG, Macromex SRL, Mars Incorporated, Mogyi Kft., Mondelez International Inc., Nestle S.A., Orlando Import-Export 2001 SRL, Pangram S.A., PepsiCo Inc., Perfetti Van Melle Group, Phoenixy S.R.L., Pladis Foods Limited, Ro Star S.A., Roshen Confectionery Corporation, Tecsa Business SRL, Top Gel Prod SRL and Unilever PLC.

The report provides a detailed assessment of prominent companies within the snacks market, tracking their performance from 2020 to 2024. Insights reveal fluctuations in market share, highlighting both veteran leaders and emerging players.

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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Key Findings
Market Segmentation
Market Overview
Romania Snacks Market – Product Type Analysis
Romania Snacks Market – Distribution Channel Analysis
Company Shares Analysis
Alka Co SRL
August Storck KG
Bestfoods Productions SRL
Bomboniera SRL
Boromir Ind S.A.
Cereal Partners Worldwide, S.A.
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG
Croco SRL
Dobrogea Grup S.A.
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Macroeconomic Data and Forecast
Research Methodology
Disclaimer

FIGURES AND TABLES
Table Romania Snacks Market 2020-2030
Chart Romania Snacks Market, Net Growth, 2020-2030
Chart Romania Snacks Market, Growth Rates, 2020-2030
Table Romania Snacks Market by Product Type, 2020-2030
Chart Romania Snacks Market by Product Type, CAGR Historic and Forecast, 2020-2030
Chart Romania Snacks Market by Product Type, 2020-2030
Table Romania Snacks Market by Distribution Channel, 2020-2030
Chart Romania Snacks Market by Distribution Channel, CAGR Historic and Forecast, 2020-2030
Chart Romania Snacks Market by Distribution Channel, 2020-2030
Table Romania Snacks Market Share (%), by Companies, 2020-2024
Chart Romania Snacks Market, by Companies, 2024
Table Romania Snacks Market Share (%), by Brands, 2020-2024
Chart Romania Snacks Market, by Brands, 2024
Table Romania – Population (Millions) and Forecast
Table Romania – Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Forecast
Table Romania – Gross Domestic Product and Forecast
Table Romania Snacks Market: Spend as a Proportion of GDP (%)
Table Romania Snacks Market: Consumption per Capita (Population)

Companies Mentioned

Alka Co SRL
August Storck KG
Bestfoods Productions SRL
Bomboniera SRL
Boromir Ind S.A.
Cereal Partners Worldwide, S.A.
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG
Croco SRL
Dobrogea Grup S.A.
ETI Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.
European Food S.A.
Ferrero International S.A.
Ficosota Food EAD
Food Union Group
Glanbia Plc
Golden Foods DP
Grupa Maspex Wadowice
Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V.
Haribo GmbH & Company KG
Intersnack Group GmbH & Co. KG
Kellanova
Kervan Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S
KEX Confectionery S.A.
Ludwig Schokolade GmbH & Co. KG
Macromex SRL
Mars, Incorporated
Mogyi Kft.
Mondelez International Inc.
Nestle S.A.
Orlando Import-Export 2001 SRL
Pangram, S.A.
PepsiCo, Inc.
Perfetti Van Melle Group
Phoenixy S.R.L.
Pladis Foods Limited
Ro Star S.A.
Roshen Confectionery Corporation
Tecsa Business SRL
Top Gel Prod SRL
Unilever PLC