Most of the enterprise subgroups in Romania are controlled from Germany, France and Italy

• Germany, France and Italy occupy the first three places in the top of the countries that control enterprise subgroups in Romania.

• In Romania, in 2018, 80591 enterprise groups were identified, out of which 5140 all-resident enterprise groups and 75451 multinational enterprise groups (401 domestically controlled and 75050 foreign-controlled, respectively).

• In 2018, 5140 of the total enterprise groups identified in Romania were all-resident, namely more than 6% of the total groups, with over 95% of them being made up of two or three legal units.

• In 2018, out of the total multinational enterprise groups identified in Romania, 13391 are groups controlled by foreign legal persons and 61659 are groups controlled by foreign natural persons.

Most of the enterprise groups in Romania operate in trade

In 2018, the distribution of the enterprise groups in Romania by economic activity, at CANE Rev. 2 section level, shows that most of them operate in:

• section G – Wholesale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles – 35% of the total enterprise groups;

• section F – Construction – 11% of the total enterprise groups;

  section C – Manufacturing – 11% of the total enterprise groups;

• section M – Professional, scientific and technical activities – 9% of the total enterprise groups;

• -section L – Real estate activities – 8% of the total enterprise groups.

The all-resident enterprise groups predominantly operate in the following fields:

• section G – Wholesale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles – 19%;

• section C – Manufacturing – 13%;

• section M – Professional, scientific and technical activities – 11%;

• section F – Construction – 10%;

• section L – Real estate activities – 9% of the total enterprise groups.

In Romania, in 2018, a share of 28.6% of the total number of employees in active enterprises performed their activities in enterprises that were part of multinational groups controlled from abroad.

In 2018, 21.4% of the employees of the entire national economy worked in enterprises controlled from the top 10 countries.

According to the share of the number of employees, most of the enterprise subgroups in Romania are controlled from Germany, France and Italy.

The results of 2018 indicate that, according to the share of the number of employees, the first place is held by the enterprise subgroups controlled by legal or natural persons from Germany (16.6%), the second place is held by those controlled from France (12.4%) and the third place by those controlled from Italy (9.2%).

According to the share of the number of employees in total foreign-controlled multinational enterprise groups, the enterprise subgroups controlled from Germany predominantly operate in section C – Manufacturing (10.1%) and in section G – Wholesale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (3.1%).

As regards the enterprise subgroups controlled from France, 5.6% are found in section C – Manufacturing and 2.7% in section G – Wholesale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

The enterprise subgroups controlled from Italy predominantly operate in section C – Manufacturing (6.2%).

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