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Trade: Study: Romanians spend an average of 70 lei (14 EUR) per shopping session in store
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Romanians spend an average of 70 lei (14 EUR) per shopping session in Pepco stores, similar to the average spending in other markets where the retailer operates. These data are part of Pepco Shopper Study ran by the retailer in all 18 markets where it operates, in order to create the profile of shopper in terms of sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics taking into account the differences across ...
Tourism: Number of foreign tourists to Romania increased by 12.4%
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Romanian economy, entrepreneurship, and tourism minister Radu Oprea announced that the number of foreign tourists visiting the country has increased by 12.4% compared to the January-May last year. Most tourists were from Italy, Germany, and France, he said. The government conducted tourism promotion campaigns in all three countries mentioned by the ...
Israelis and Romanians generated 44% of the revenues registered by Hotel Cismigiu in H1 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Tourists from Israel generated, in the first half of this year, 23% of the revenues recorded by Hotel Cismigiu, part of the Hercesa Romania portfolio since 2004. In second place in terms of accommodation in Hotel Cismigiu were tourists from Romania, with 21% of the total, followed by those from Great Britain (8%), Italy (7%), Germany (6%) and the Netherlands (4%). The Average Daily Rate (ADR) indicator increased by 3% compared to the first six months of 2023, and the double ...
Real Estate: North Bucharest Investments - 30% more transactions in the first 6 months of 2024 compared to the entire sales volume of 2023
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
North Bucharest Investments announces the remarkable results achieved in the first half of 2024, reinforcing its position as a leader in the Bucharest real estate market. In the first half of the year, North Bucharest Investments completed over 520 real estate transactions, a 30% increase compared to the total transactions of the previous year. The transaction value reached approximately 63 million euros, a 35% increase compared to the same ...
Agriculture: Animal and bird effectives recorded on December 1, 2023 dropping
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Animal and bird effectives existing on December 1, 2023 were dropping compared to the end of 2022, according to data released by INS. The total number of cattle and milk cows and cows for reproduction, on December 1, 2023 against December 1, 2022 dropped by 1% and 1.4%. On December 31, 2023, the total number of cattle amounted to 1.815 heads , of which 1.177million cows, water buffaloes and heifers ...
Telecom. IT: Smart tvs, routers and IP cameras in top of most unsafe household devices
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Smart tvs, routers and IP cameras are in the top of the most unsafe household devices, according to a report made by Bitdefender and the manufacturer of devices for Netgear networks. According to a press release of the manufacturer of antivirus solutions, there are 21 Internet connected devices on the average, while ten attacks on household networks are recorded ...
Agriculture: Raw milk imports up 45% in first five months
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
In the first five months of this year, processing units in Romania collected 536,093 tonnes of cow's milk, up by 4.6% compared to the same period last year, while imports of raw milk rose by 45% to 62,993 tonnes, according to data published on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The production of dairy products had growth on all components in the mentioned period, namely drinking milk, cream, sour milk, butter and cheese, the largest ...
Romania ranks second in EU after France on grain exports, leads in corn production
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Romania still ranks second largest European grain exporter, after France. Local farmers and traders delivered more than 10.6 million tonnes outside the EU in the 2023-2024 commercial year, compared to 8.1 million tonnes a year ago. Over 23% of the 45.6 million tons of grain that left the borders of the community left Romania. Romania’s exports of wheat, common wheat flour – grain equivalent, durum wheat, durum wheat flour ...
Healthcare: Infosan: About 100,000 people suffer from blindness in Romania
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Approximately 100,000 people in Romania suffer from blindness, and statistics show that 70% of the cases could have been avoided if an ophthalmological consultation had been carried out in time, according to data from Infosan, the only private pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Romania. At the same time, following a free screening campaign launched by Infosan in kindergartens in Bucharest, for the early identification of vision problems and the limitation of cases of ...
HealthMin announces project worth about 40 million euros equipping forensic medicine institutes and services
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said on last Thursday that a project worth about 40 million euros was launched in May, aimed at equipping the six existing forensic medicine institutes in the country and the 36 forensic medicine services in counties where there are no institutes."We have a project that we are carrying out through the World Bank and that started in May, it is in an advanced stage, in the sense that the technical working group ...
Bulgaria, Germany and Romania have highest number of hospital beds in EU reported to population
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
In 2022, in the European Union there were 2.3 million hospital beds , 6.8% less thanin 2012 (171,110). Member states with most hospital beds were Germany (642,107), France (374,290), Poland (231,789), Spain (140,551) and Romania (138,618), according to data released by Eurostat on last Thursday. Reported to the size of the population, member counties with most hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants are Bulgaria (823), Germany (766) and Romania (728). ...
Real Estate: House sales, up by 16 pct in Romania, in first half of 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The number of homes sold nationwide increased by 16%, in the first semester of this year, compared to the same period in 2023, while in Bucharest it increased by 25%, reveals a report, published on Monday.According to the SVN Romania analysis, the strongest evolution among the most important regional residential markets in Romania was recorded by Iasi, with an annual increase in housing sales of 71%, and the weakest evolution was recorded in Arges, with a annual decrease of ...
Favorable outlook for Romanian real estate market as of H1, construction sector at all-time highs
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
As of the end of H1 2024, Romania's real estate transactions amounted to EUR 419 million, more than twice the figure registered in the same period last year, and the construction sector hit all-time highs, stimulated by massive EU-funded investments and a very active private market, shows a report by real estate consulting company Colliers."Large investments in infrastructure, salary growth well above inflation, the decent external economic background and the central banks' ...
Infrastructure: Wizz Air airline to introduce in October new direct flights from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca to 5 destinations
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Wizz Air airline operator is introducing five new routes that will start operating in October, three of which will depart from Bucharest to Milan Malpensa, Stuttgart and Trieste, and the other two will reach Stuttgart and Lisbon from Cluj-Napoca.According to a press release of the company sent on Friday, flights from Bucharest to Milan Malpensa will be every day, to Stuttgart on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and to Trieste on Tuesdays and ...
Grampet Group opens new agricultural rail terminal in Romania
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Private rail freight and logistics operator Grampet Group has opened a new agricultural rail terminal in Romania, World Grain wrote quoed by https://www.ofimagazine.com/. With 3M tonnes/year of capacity, the company’s grain trans-shipment terminal in Dornesti was expected to strengthen the country’s position as a railway and logistics hub in Central and Southeast Europe while boosting grain ...
New investments in road and railway infrastructure, worth 700 million RON, approved by Government
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared on last Thursday that new investments in road and railway infrastructure, worth 700 million RON, European and budget money, will be approved in the Government meeting."Today we are also approving new investments in road and railway infrastructure, worth 700 million RON, European and budget money. It is about the construction of two road junctions on the A1 motorway, in the counties of Timis and Hunedoara," said the prime minister, at ...
Telecom.IT: Gov't approves National Strategy on artificial intelligence
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The government approved the National Strategy in the artificial intelligence area at its meeting on last Thursday, Executive Spokesman Mihai Constantin announced."Romania has a new strategic framework on artificial intelligence that will underpin European funding dedicated to the implementation of next-generation technologies and will undoubtedly have a significant impact in all aspects of our lives, in society and in the economy. The National Strategy for ...
Average daily roaming internet traffic in Romania of users from Republic of Moldova doubles in 2023
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The average daily roaming internet traffic in Romania of users from the Republic of Moldova doubled in 2023, reaching almost three times more than the roaming internet traffic in the Republic of Moldova of users from Romania, who paid on average almost 1 euro for every 45 MB consumed daily.The data were announced on Monday by the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), after the publication of the Joint Report on bilateral roaming ...
Cars: Electric car registrations drop 46pct in June
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
New car registrations in Romania increased 61.7% in June this year compared to the same period in 2023, while "green" cars registered a growth of 27.4% and a market share of 20.4%, but 100% electric cars fell steeply, 46%, according to data from the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), presented on Monday at a press conference.According to the source, after the important evolution of the previous months, June 2024 comes with a 63.2% increase ...
Healthcare: THE ACTIVITY OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE PROTECTION NETWORK IN 2023
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
In 2023: ? over 67 thousand healthcare units were in operation; ? there were, on average, 262 inhabitants1 per doctor (including family doctors), compared to 267 inhabitants in 2022; ? hospitals treated 3.7 million cases as inpatients, 504 thousand cases more than in 2022. According to the ...