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Finnish fast-food chain Hesburger has opened a new drive-through restaurant at Satekles iela 3 in central Riga, investing more than €2.1 million in the new building and creating 20 jobs. The three-storey restaurant has a total area of…
Estonia exported 74,648 tonnes of domestically caught fish and Estonian-origin fish products in 2025, with frozen Baltic herring and sprat forming the core of the trade. Frozen fish alone accounted for 45,958 tonnes. Baltic herring made up 53.2%…
Vilniaus Duona, part of Sweden’s Lantmännen Unibake group, has started producing three new portion-bread products in Vilnius for export to Denmark.
A growing number of Estonian restaurants are closing despite sector turnover continuing to rise, pointing to a profitability problem rather than a simple collapse in demand.
For the first time this year, food and grocery retail growth across the three Baltic states came together almost exactly
DataRetail trade expanded across the Baltic states in the first half of 2026, though the available national releases do not form a fully harmonised three-country dataset.
PhotoMere stores in Latvia and Lithuania have closed after Russian businessman Sergey Schneider was added to the EU sanctions list. In Latvia, the chain operated 12 stores through SIA Latprodukti and the Latvian branch of Lithuania-registered Valiente. Latprodukti…
PhotoComparison vs April 2026.Method: non-promotional prices only.Sources: Rimi + Barbora online retail checks.Focus: lowest visible baseline price, not average basket price. By 30 June, the cheapest visible Baltic food basket was still available, but the picture became less…
PhotoNot only online shoppers. The new charge reaches rail corridors, Polish warehouses, Baltic parcel operators and the logistics system built around low-value imports.
PhotoBy early June 2026, the Baltic debate around GMOs no longer fits the old “GMO or non-GMO” frame. The formal language in Brussels has moved to CRISPR, new genomic techniques, seed transparency, patent disclosure, organic coexistence and the…
PhotoMaxima, Rimi, Lidl and IKEA are visible to Baltic consumers as retail brands. But behind those brands stand very different capital models.
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