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ONRC: Almost 528,000 women were shareholders or associates in Romanian companies, in end-July
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The number of women shareholders or associates in Romanian-based companies was 527,720 in end-July 2019, 37.48 per cent of the total shareholders or associates respectively, according to data released by the National Trade Register Office (ONRC).According to the centralized data, there were 880,185 men shareholders or associates in the 968,510 active companies in Romania.The total number of associates/individual shareholders was 1.408 million in the ...
Biggest fertilizer exporter in Turkey buys Agrium Agroport
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The Turkish group Toros Tarim and Canadian shareholders of Agrium Agroport recently signed a take-over agreement which will be completed by the creation of a new company – Toros Agroport Romania SA- to be registered in September, “Ziarul Financiar” announced. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. Agroport, a farming business, was set up by the Romanian Florin Radu who got under the umbrella of the Canadian group Agrium in 2014, in ...
Veeam Software increases Bucharest office space to allow team expansion
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Veeam Software, the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, has announced that it would lease another 2,300 sqm in Business Garden Bucharest in order to accommodate its growing team in Romania. The company is planning to grow its team by 50 percent this year, reaching 600 employees at the end of 2019, compared to 400 at the beginning of the year. The new office space, located in a modern A+ building recently built in the proximity of the easily accessible ...
Deloitte Romania launches automation platform for SMEs and corporations
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Deloitte Romania launches automation platform Processo, which allows users to create business processes, decision models and integration points with systems already used in the company. Created by the technology team ...
ONRC: Number of companies that went into dissolution down 6.92 pct in 7 months
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The number of companies that went into dissolution in the first seven months of 2019 went down by 6.92 per cent compared to the same period last year, to 19,872 units, compared with 21,349 companies recorded in 2018, accorded to data centralized by the National Trade Register Office (ONRC).Most dissolutions were recorded in Bucharest - 3,450 companies (down by 19.88 per cent against the first seven months in 2018) and Timis county - 999 (minus 11.36 per cent), Constanta - ...
Start-ups on foreign capital, up 0.3pct, Jan.-July 2019; share capital, up 37.4pct
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The number start-ups on foreign capital in the first seven months of 2019 increased by 0.3pct from the same period of the previous year, to 3,348, according to data with the National Companies Registry Office (ONRC).The 3,348 new companies had a subscribed share capital of 13.59 million US dollars, up 37.4pct from January-July 2018.According to ONRC, between 1991 and July 31, 2019, 224,682 companies were established on foreign capital, with the total value of the ...
Bloomberg: Liberty Steel to spend more on Galati plant in Romania
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
British tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s British tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel plans to weather the trade war threat to its steel business by pumping money into the European plants it recently bought from ArcelorMittal, ...
Company deregistrations up 53 pct over Jan - July 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Company deregistrations were 52.87 pct up, at 74,189, in the first seven months of 2019 from the same period of 2018, shows statistical data of the National Trade Register Office (ONRC).Bucharest tops the list with most deregistrations - 8,376 companies (11.68 pct more YoY), followed by the counties of Iasi - 4,065 (+108.35 pct), Maramures - 2,791 (+132.58 pct) and Cluj - 2,751 (+33.35 pct).Conversely, the counties with the fewest deregistered businesses were Ialomita ...
Gijs Klomp is the new Head of Investment Properties for CBRE Romania
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
CBRE, the global and national leader in real estate market consultancy, is expanding its Romanian management team by recruiting Gijs Klomp as the new Head of Investment Properties for CBRE Romania. Klomp has over 17 years of experience in real estate and was involved in investment transactions worth more than EUR 2 billion. “The Romanian investment market is going through an eventful period as we estimate for the entire 2019 a transactional volume surpassing the EUR 1 billion ...
The 2019 edition of the Programmer’s Week Conference to be held in September
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The 2019 edition of the Programmer’s Week Conference, one of the largest technology events in Romania, will be held September 9-13 in Bucharest. New to this year’s event is the ability for developers from across the globe to join in select activities, including Tech Talks presented by Cognizant Softvision executives and other technology luminaries. This year, Programmers’ Week will highlight the intersection of business and technology. Activities will ...
The Competition council authorized the taking over by H.I.G Europe of some assets owned by Covestro Deutschland
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The competition council authorized the trading through which H.I.G. Europe takes over the business with polyuretanic systems in Europe of Covestro Deutschland according to a press release of the institution in competition.H.I.G.Europe is part of the Group H.I.G. which works in Romania in the domain of recycling, media/IT, solutions for hydrocarbs, production and distribution of furniture and sanitary objects, online commerce.Covestro Deutschland ...
Insolvencies fall by almost 29pct, Jan.-July 2019, to 3,733
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The number of firms and individuals facing insolvency fell by almost 29 percent in the first seven months of 2019 compared with the same period of 2018, to 3,733 insolvencies, according to data posted on the website of the National Companies Register Office (ONRC).Most of them were in Bucharest, namely 632, down 38.88 percent from the same period of 2018. The ranking continues with the counties of Bihor, ...
Tesla to start deliveries to Romania, Slovenia
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
US electric automobile manufacturer Tesla said it will start deliveries to Romania, Slovenia, Poland and Hungary in early 2020. Deliveries of Model 3, Model S and Model X in selected countries will start at the beginning of next year, Tesla said in a social media post on Friday. In March, Tesla said it plans to install its Supercharger modules in the Romanian cities of Bucharest, Galati and ...
As many as 8,715 startups created through EU-funded entrepreneurship schemes
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
As many as 8,715 companies have been created through the Diaspora Start-up, Romania Start-up Plus and Start-Up Nation programs, under EU-funded entrepreneurship schemes, minister of European Funds Roxana Minzatu told a press conference on Thursday.The official said that the situation is dynamic, as new businesses are further being set up with European funding.According to national centralized data, recreational and fun activities (CAEN code 9329) ...
Carlo Pignoloni is the new country manager of Enel Romania, replacing Georgios Stassis
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Enel announces that Carlo Pignoloni, who up until now was head of Enel Green Power’s operations in Italy, becomes the new country manager of Enel in Romania, replacing Georgios Stassis who left the Enel Group to take the helm of Greece’s top utility Power Public Corporation (PPC). “We are very pleased to have Carlo Pignoloni as the new country manager of Enel’s operations in Romania. His knowledge of the conventional part ...
GMB Romania Auto Industry builds EUR 9 mln car parts plant in Romania
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
GMB Romania Auto Industry, a company that is part of South Korean group GMB Korea, will open in 2020 a new factory in Oarja, near Pitesti, where Dacia carmaker operates its spare parts center and Turkish car parts producer Martur operates a production ...
Survey: Romanian employees waste up to two hours daily because of chatty colleagues, long meetings
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Three out of four Romanian employees say they waste up to two hours every day because of things that distract them from their work, a survey of online recruitment platform BestJobs revealed. Among the most bothersome are the noisy phone conversations of colleagues, the work phone that rings too often, the background noise typical of open-space offices, the chatty fellow employees, and the meetings that run too long. The time spent on ...
As many as 8,715 startups created through EU-funded entrepreneurship schemes
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
As many as 8,715 companies have been created through the Diaspora Start-up, Romania Start-up Plus and Start-Up Nation programs, under EU-funded entrepreneurship schemes, minister of European Funds Roxana Minzatu told a press conference on Thursday.The official said that the situation is dynamic, as new businesses are further being set up with European funding.According to national centralized data, recreational and fun activities (CAEN code 9329) ...
China CEE Investment Fund II completed the acquisition of 15 grain silos and logistics hubs from Brise Group
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
China Central and Eastern Europe Investment Co-operation Fund II completes the acquisition of 15 grain silos and logistics hubs from Brise Group, and aims to create the first open access agriculture infrastructure platform in Romania. CEE Equity Partners, the Investment Advisor to the China Central and Eastern Europe Investment Co-operation Fund II, announces the acquisition of 15 grain silos and logistics hubs from the Brise Group, from now on ...
Silicon Forest plans to open a second location in Cluj-Napoca
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Silicon Forest, a coworking space and technology hub, is planning to open a second location in Cluj-Napoca. In the first location, from the summer of 2018 until now, Silicon Forest has reached an occupancy rate of 80 to 85 percent, which is great for a business of this type. Most customers are small and very small companies, while the number of freelancers is between 25 and 30, depending on the month. Silicon Forest started out as a space for ...