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French hotel group Accor, which currently has more than 950 employees in Romania, seeks to add 600 more people to its team until 2025, in order to support the opening and operation of more than ten new hotels.

Cyber-attacks have reached an unprecedented level and the global phenomenon is becoming more and more visible in Romania.

European online fashion retailer Zalando, which already has a presence in 25 countries, launched in Romania on Monday. The retailer carries 350,000 products from 1,700 brands, and expansion in Romania is a continuation of the expansion in Europe.

The European Reconstruction and Development Bank (EBRD) has recently announced it’s expanding its presence in Romania by opening a new regional office in Cluj-Napoca, the country’s second largest city.

The net assets of the 236 domestic and foreign open-end and closed-end investment funds operating in Romania grew by 1.2% in April 2022, to RON52.1 billion (EUR10.5 billion), and dropped by 2.9% since the beginning of 2022, in line with the latest data from the Association of Fund Administrators.

Accounting for 70% of green certified buildings and 85% of offices occupied in certified space, the stock of green qualified offices is comparatively higher in Romania than anywhere else in Europe. In addition, 88% of investment transactions in the office segment in Romania involve buildings with green certifications, according to CBRE Romania. This makes the […]

BASF – the world’s largest chemical company and European leader in research and development, along with AHK Romania, are announcing the BASF Innovation Hub program, which will gather start-ups and innovators from 11 countries of Central and Southeast Europe, including Romania. The project aims to act as a launching platform, supporting start-ups by promoting the […]

eMAG, the biggest online retailer locally, in 2021 registered RON5.682 billion turnover in Romania, according to Tudor Manea, the company’s CEO.

Germany’s B. Braun, active in Romania’s health sector for over 20 years, ended 2021 with total turnover worth RON518 million, 15% higher than in 2020, in line with ZF calculations based on public data for the six companies part of the group.

The data center built near Craiova by Cluster Power with the help of Tema Energy’s engineering team has officially achieved Tier III Design Accredited accreditation from the US Uptime Institute. Cluster Power is the first hyper-scalable data center with artificial intelligence capabilities in Romania.    Uptime Institute is based in New York and brings together […]

Nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO), small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technology provider NuScale and the E-Infra group of companies on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of the first SMR reactor in Romania on the site of the former Doicesti thermal power plant, in Dambovita County.

Junior Achievement Romania, in partnership with Nestlé Romania, continues the professional development program “Your professional success”. Within this project, the two partners carry out a series of learning by doing activities. In May, Nestlé volunteers met virtually with more than 170 students from 10 counties.   The theme of the webinar held by the volunteers […]

Cheil | Centrade, the integrated communication hub for Southeast Europe of the Korean network Cheil Worldwide has designed and implemented a new ATL campaign for NN Romania, which communicates the main benefits of insurance and pension products.   KUBIS, the digital communication partner of the brand, has developed the online communication component of the campaign, […]

Visa and Western Union today announce a new partnership in Germany and Romania, with the launch of WU+, the new integrated digital banking and international money transfer app. WU+ app customers will be able to open a digital bank account and pay across all channels with their Visa Debit card. Western Union, through its partnership […]

Joberty, an online IT job platform that connects employers and candidates in a transparent eco-system, has officially started to operate in Romania starting Tuesday (May 24).

Ursus Breweries, the largest player in the Romanian beer industry, has launched the Kozel beer brand in Romania.

Stationery and office equipment importer and wholesaler Dacris, held by the Fati family, wants to develop a network of hubs in major regions of Romania in a bid to optimize its wholesale activity.

The European Commission has concluded that seven countries – Romania, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden – continue to have excessive imbalances, according to its spring edition of a report regarding the situation across European Union (EU) Member States.

The first small modular reactor project in the world will be built in Romania, in Doicesti (Dambovita County, southern Romania) Energy Minister Virgil Popescu announced on Monday.

Romania’s tech ecosystem is evolving, so the local companies are hiring marketers and sales development representatives in Romania to work alongside their US counterparts. That means that Romanians get a chance to learn the best practices from Silicon Valley. Consequently, those learning will help those that join leapfrog in their career as they know things […]