Romania’s modern retail landscape is an exact copy of the Romanian economy as most stores are opened in the most economically powerful counties, led by Bucharest.
US company Emerson, which provides engineering services for a wide range of industrial, commercial, and consumer markets, wants to reach almost 3,600 employees in Romania, in the next two years, and already has some 100 job openings.
U.S. company SonicWall, a global provider of network security, content security, web and email security, secure remote access, and business continuity solutions, has started a project aimed at developing a technical support center in Romania, which is set to have 50 employees.
Romania’s dental services industry generated turnover worth RON2.3 billion in 2020, the same as in the previous year, in line with Trade Registry data.
The average price per one hectare of farmland in Romania revolves around EUR6,000, which is luring Romanian, as well as foreign investors, the more so as the European average is higher.
Romania’s postal and courier services market ranks 14th among the markets of EU countries, with a value put at EUR1.2 billion in 2021, 8.8% lower than in 2020, in line with Ibisworld data.
Estonian-held Bolt has more than 10,000 drivers in Romania, double the number reported six months ago, as the platform operates in 18 cities of the country, explained Cristi Salceanu, country manager of Bolt Romania.
Bucharest is currently Romania’s most important market for cash & carry, hypermarket or supermarket operators, hosting a quarter of the country’s total number of modern stores, say the representatives of German-held Metro Cash & Carry.
Polish-held cosmetics retailer Inglot is focusing on its online operations in Romania and will reconsider this market for resuming offline expansion with its own stores no sooner than a year.
Romania held a total stock of modern industrial and logistics spaces of 5.3 million square meters at end-2020, and developers have pledged over 800,000 square metres of new warehouses in 2021, which should drive the overall stock to 6 million square metres.
US giant Whirlpool, a major player on the global electrical home appliances market, does not plan to open a plant in Romania, where it holds only import and distribution operations, but bets on a sales increase.
Romanian investment fund Black Sea Fund, focused on deals with small and medium-sized companies, announced it took over a 70% stake in D-Toys, Romania’s most important children’s puzzle and game producer, a business founded 20 years ago by entrepreneur Tibor Fustos.
Romania’s construction sector reached a value of RON127.9 billion in 2020, in the wake of an annual increase of around 17%, according to ZF calculations based on Trade Registry data.
International rating agency Fitch has warned the collapse of Romania’s coalition government could disrupt fiscal consolidation efforts, which are key to resolving the Negative Outlook on Romania’s ‘BBB-’ rating.
Private healthcare provider Monza ended 2020 with turnover worth almost RON200 million, up 13% year-on-year. The growth Italy’s Monza group registered in Romania was organic, brought by the high number of patients, says Luca Militello, the group’s CEO.
Capital city Bucharest, the largest and most developed urban center in Romania, contributes 50% to the business of Cora store chain in Romania, namely, the hypermarket business considering that only in 2021 Cora launched, in Bucharest too, the first proximity stores.
BMW’s EUR1 billion investment in a plant in Debrecen, Hungary, will attract new investments in automotive component manufacturing in Romania, as well. The first two such investments went to plants in Arad and Oradea, which Global Vision built for two suppliers.
DIY retailer Dedeman, the largest entrepreneurial business in Romania, controlled by brothers Adrian and Dragos Paval, is due to open this week its 56th store, in Blejoi, Prahova County.
All large banks in Romania reported higher profits for 1H/2020 against the same period in 2020 amid weakening pandemic fallout and declining risk and provision costs, but also in the wake of rising lending and revenues.
The lower brick demand was offset by roofing demand in the first half of this year for Austrian brick manufacturer Wienerberger in Romania.