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The World Bank has revised downwards its forecast for Romania’s economic growth to just 0.4% for 2025, compared to its 1.3% projection in June 2025, per the Bank's latest report for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) released on Tuesday (October 7).
A team of Clifford Chance lawyers from the Bucharest, London and Amsterdam offices, coordinated by Partner Madalina Rachieru-Postolache, has advised NEPI Rockcastle in its most recent green bonds issues worth EUR500 million.
Electrica, the most powerful player on Romania energy distribution and supply market, wants to start necessary procedures to get the needed funding for acquisitions of as much as EUR1 billion, in line with documents published this morning at the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
Law firm Filip & Company legally assisted investment fund OH Holing Limited of Ukraine with completing the deal via which it becomes the majority stakeholder in the company that operates Lensa network, one of the largest on Romania’s optics and optometry market.
Romania hospitality industry in the first half of 2025 registered a 19% turnover increase, the third largest advance in the EU, after Greece (35%) and Hungary (22%), in line with Eurostat data quoted by Colliers, but the advance was primarily supported by price hikes and not by high tourist numbers.
Technical plastic solutions developer Reinert Kunststofftechnik, acquired in late 2019 by Germany’s CCBA Verwaltungs, ended 2024 with turnover worth RON177.3 million (EUR35.6 million), down 4.5% from 2023, in line with ZF calculations based on Finance Ministry data.
Concrete producer Readymix Romania for 2024 reported RON150.8 million (EUR30.3 million) turnover, 3% higher in annual terms, in line with ZF calculations based on Finance Ministry data. Net profit amounted to RON2.7 million (around EUR547,000), up 7.7% from the year-earlier period.
Antibiotice Iasi, the largest Romanian-owned drugmaker, a company controlled by the Romanian state via the Health Ministry, plans to add three new production capacities and investments underway amount to EUR50 million.
Prodalcom Botosani, the producer of the Voronskaya vodka brand owned by three Romanian entrepreneurs, posted RON30.4 million (EUR6.1 million) revenue in 2024, up by about 8.5% compared with the previous year’s RON28 million (EUR5.6 million), according to ZF calculations based on Finance Ministry data.
Linde Gaz Romania, the local subsidiary of German-American industrial group Linde Plc, posted RON1.016 billion (EUR204.4 million) revenue in 2024, down 6.4% from the previous year’s RON1.087 billion (EUR219.8 million), according to ZF calculations based on Finance Ministry data.
Jacobs Douwe Egberts Ro, the Romanian subsidiary of Dutch group JDE Peet's, posted almost RON618 million (EUR124.2 million) revenue in 2024, up 6.4% from the previous year’s RON580.8 million (EUR117.4 million), according to ZF calculations based on Finance Ministry data.
Eyewear retailer Lensa has finalized the transaction whereby OH Holding Limited, a Ukrainian company established by entrepreneur Oleg Kalashnikov, becomes its majority shareholder.
Romania's retail sector saw a 4.0% month-on-month decrease in August 2025—the largest drop among all Member States, with the decline marking a dramatic shift, as annual growth turned negative at -3.8% year-on-year, breaking a five-month streak of positive growth.
Romania's Finance Ministry raised RON1 billion from banks on Monday (October 6), selling government paper in two auctions, at annual average yields of 7.34% and 7.37%, respectively.
Nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica (stock symbol: SNN) and Framatome have signed an Isotope Irradiation Service Agreement to advance the Innovative Romanian Isotope System (IRIS) Project.
Romania’s national grid company Transelectrica (stock symbol: TEL) has proposed an investment program of over EUR130 million for 2025 – the most ambitious in recent years, and by 2030, it is planned to build over 740 km of new overhead power lines, with total financing of over EUR380 million, from its own sources and European funds.
The number of insolvencies in Romania remained nearly at the same level as in 2024 in January-August 2025, decreasing by an annual 2%, while preventive concordat requests rose by 30%, signaling a change in behavior among companies facing financial difficulties, per an analysis by insolvency specialist CITR.
Romanian entrepreneurs have access to over EUR2 billion in non-reimbursable funding this fall, both in the form of European funds and state aid, aimed at supporting the agri-food, manufacturing, and digitization sectors, as well as transportation, logistics, energy production, and charging stations, per an analysis by REI Group, a group of companies specialized in attracting European funds and state aid.
Retail sales volume in Romania (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) dropped by 7.2% in unadjusted data and by 4% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, in August 2025 compared to July 2025, data from the country’s statistical office INS showed on Monday (October 6, 2025).
ETF BET Patria-TradeVille fund went beyond the RON600 million value in net total assets in early October, less than three months after hitting RON500 million in July 2025.18948 items