CONSUM ŞI PREŢURI LA MAGAZINELE UZINELOR ŞI DOMENIILOR REŞIŢA ÎN PERIOADA INTERBELICĂ
CONSUMPTION AND COSTS IN THE SHOPS OF REȘIȚA’S IRON WORKS AND DOMAINS WITHIN THE INTERWAR TIMES

Summary/Abstract: At the end of World War I, industrial units from the territories united to Romania, as those ones in Banat were, focused on a direction able to make them performing in relation with the external market. The shareholders of Reșița’s Iron Works and Domains made efforts to set up connected commercial units in order to increase their revenues and to coagulate the human resource by ensuring an easy access to most needed mass products. So under Reșița’s Iron Works and Domains direction they set up a chain of mass consumption shops in the main localities of the region, and also several coffee houses and restaurants. Two of those units functioned in Reșița, known as “Economatele UDR” [RIWD’s Economat/ Ecconomic Stores], and a restaurant named “Oltenia”. Reșița’s Iron Works and Domains profited about all the urban specific lines that, correlated with a developing strategy in suit with the areas specific features and succeeded to forge in Reșița the needed insignia to penetrate into the elite of industrial centers.

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