Knowledge, experience, and emotions are factors in effective decision-making via the depth of thought, meaningful and memorable messages and actions, as well as the promotion of further advancement. It is also said that an event can be a good lesson if people can experience it as a community looking for solutions and inspiration, life being a learning process.

Friday 14, January 2022 the beautiful and historical Council Hall of the Faculty of Medicine, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest (UMF), hosted a significant event.

In this context, the distinguished Prof. Dr. Viorel Jinga, Rector of the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest (UMF), expressed best birthday wishes to Prof. Dr. Costel Negricea, Rector of the Romanian-American University.

On this special occasion, Prof. Dr. Costel Negricea, Rector of the Romanian-American University, has received a “Carol Davila” U.M.F. Bucharest distinction. As it is known:

• Prof. Dr. Costel Negricea, Rector of the Romanian-American University ensured agile adaptation of the Romanian-American University to developments specific to the pandemic context (http://holisticmarketingmanagement.ro/leadership-in-era-digitala-arhitectura-culturala-prin-marketing-digital-costel-negricea/);

• The Romanian-American University got involved together with the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest and Romanian Distribution Committee in the creation and organization of the “SANABUNA” Congress: “Health, Nutrition, Fitness and Wellbeing”;

• Prof. Dr. Costel Negricea, Rector of the Romanian-American University, is an Honorary Member and Member of the Board of the scientific association Romanian Distribution Committee;

• “Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine” was born from the collaboration of the Romanian Distribution Committee, the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest and the Romanian-American University.

George Cosmin TĂNASE, Member of the Editorial Board of the Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine, invited us to look at the ‘Top Retailers of the Romanian Market by Number of Stores (2021).’

Allow us to take this opportunity to remember that George Cosmin TĂNASE (2007 RAU Management-Marketing School Valedictorian) is the former Leader of the ‘TOEMM’ Student Marketing Research Team of the Management-Marketing School, Romanian-American University (RAU). He is also a Member of the Advisory Board of the RAU Management-Marketing School.

It is also worth remembering that in January 2015 he launched ‘The Romanian Retail Market Evolution. 2015 Analysis.’

This new information was added in context of still continuing discussions going on with regard to the evolution of the Romanian Retail Market (including the recent one based on ‘Number of retail chains in Romania 2021, by sector’, as shown by Statista: https://www.statista.com/statistics/642260/retail-chains-number-by-sector-romania/) and initially started on the occasion of the 24th International Congress of A.I.D.A. (The International Association of the Distributive Trade), organized in Bucharest, at Athénée Palace Hilton, on 18-19 May 1998, and having both a challenging central theme – ‘Retailers and Suppliers with shared ambitions to improve profit performance by continuously improving the quality of their service to consumers’ – and reputed Keynote Speakers, such as: Jean-Jacques Van Den Heede, Vice-President Nielsen; Riccardo Garosci, European Raporteur for ‘Green Book for European Commerce’,  Louis Guelette, IBM Vice President, Distribution; Dr. Ulf Kalmbach, Project Manager, REWE-Zentral AG, Germany; Michel Eeckhout, Executive Director, Technology and Information, Delhaize “Le Lion”; Prof. Dr. Bernd Hallier, Managing Director of the EuroHandelsinstitut, Germany, President of EuroShop, and President of the European Retail Academy; Henry R. Hidell III, President of Hidell-Eyster International Inc., United States, and a member of the executive committee of the International Bottled Water Association; William S. Webb, Executive Director, The Institute of Retail and Distribution Management, London, United Kingdom; Maurice de Talansier, Manager of l’Observateur Cetelem, France; Andrew Cookson, Partner, GIRA Group, France-Switzerland; Benoit Hirszowski, Marketing Manager Tetra Pak Europe; Paul Schulz, Senior Vice President, Food Distributors International, United States; Eric Dean Rohlck, Member of the Corporate Member Division, Competition Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, United States; Mario Bertolini, Honorary President of AIDA, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Parma; Claude Magnan, Chairman Managing Director Elodis, Director of International Relations Intermarché, France; Pierre Arnold, Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université de Lausanne et Legion d’honneur 1991, ancient PDG de Migros, membre de la direction du groupe horloger SMH, siège au conseil d’administration de Swissair; Marco Atzberger, Directorate of Studies, EuroHandelsinstitut, Germany; Nikos Skoulas, former Minister, President of NSA International, Greece; Georges Chetochine, Professor of Marketing at the University Paris IX-Dauphine, and Chairman of IGC International, France; Claude Sordet, Chairman & Managing Director CSC Conseils, France, and Member of French Academy of Commercial Sciences, and the last but not least Prof. dr.h.c. Léon F. Wegnez, Secretary General of A.I.D.A. Brussels, Administrator Secretary General of the Diplomatic Club of Belgium, Co-Founder of the Diplomatique Gazette Brussels, General Manager of the Royal Belgian Committee for Distribution, Member of France’s Academy of Commercial Sciences, and Honored Personality 2015 – Hall of Fame of the European Retail Academy.