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Colete Online, a marketplace-type platform via which users can compare and select from among the services of several courier services firms to send packages and parcels in Romania and abroad, wants to double its number of employees in 2022 and expand to cities such as Cluj, Timisoara, Oradea, Brasov and Iasi.
Cold cuts producer Meda Prod 98, one of the largest on the local market, ended 2021 with RON236 million turnover, from RON217 million in 2020, according to the company’s officials.
Proinvest Group, a company specialized in steel products, has a EUR10-12 million investment budget for 2022, part of a long-term growth plan that started in 2021 and involves EUR100 million overall.
Vassilis Chaniotis, general manager of private healthcare operator Medsana, says the company will open the new Medsana center in Bucharest at end-2022, with the investment carried out so far standing at EUR2.1 million.
German giant Varta is considering Romania for an around EUR1 billion EV battery plant investment.
Airbag maker GST Safety Textiles Ro, the local subsidiary of Germany’s concern Global Safety Textiles, acquired in 2011 by South Korea’s Hyosung group, currently has 95 jobs avaibale at its Sighisoara plant.
Holde Agri Invest, a Romanian company operating farmland, wants to grow from a 10,000-ha to a 30,000-ha farming area and plans to bolster its warehousing capacities to 40,000 tons, explained Robert Lisenche, an investment manager at the company.
OTP Bank Romania ended 2021 with RON58 million net profit, more than double the net profit of 2020. Operating profit shrank by 24% to RON123 million in 2021 compared with 2020, OTP Bank Romania officials said.
Zdenek Romanek has been officially approved by Romania’s central bank to become chairman and CEO of Raiffeisen Bank Romania.
Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO), member company of the KMG International Group (KMGI), will suspend the operational activity of the Petromidia Navodari refinery, between March 11 and April 3, for a scheduled technological turnaround, the company said in a stock market report.
The European Commission (EC) decided on Thursday, March 3, 2022, to introduce the temporary protection for the Ukrainian nationals. During the official press conference following the EC decision, on Friday (March 4), Romanian authorities confirmed that the mechanism will be applicable in Romania for those Ukrainian nationals who decide to remain in our country.
German giant Varta wants to produce batteries for electric cars in Romania and is willing to invest EUR1 billion, Roxana Mînzatu, Secretary of State in the Ministry of European Investments and Projects, said in a Facebook post on Friday.
Lithuania’s car sharing company Spark on Friday announced a partnership with automaker Dacia whereby it will add 100 new fully electric Dacia Spring vehicles to its fleet.
Healthtech startup SanoPass, which developed a platform that connects, digitalizes and integrates all preventive medical care services, has announced a new investment round whereby it seeks to raise EUR3 million, company officials said in a statement on Friday.
Uni Systems, which offers integrated solutions and IT (information technology) services, on Friday said it is providing assistance for relocation and opportunities for remote work for refugees from Ukraine, company officials said in a statement.
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, has exceeded the 4% threshold on Friday (March 4, 2022) reaching 4.03% a year, the biggest level since May 2013, in line with central bank data.
Packeta Romania, the local subsidiary of Czech-owned Packeta Group, a global digital platform for e-commerce, plans to reach a nationwide network of over 1,000 pick-up points this year, from 500 units at end-2021.
Retail turnover, the main barometer for private consumption, in January 2022 posted a 5.3% increase in gross series against the year-earlier period amid rising sales of car fuel in specialized stores (by 8.2%), non-food items (6%) and foodstuff, beverages and tobacco (3.1%), in line with data from the country’s statistics board INS.
Hotel company Turism Felix, owner of Baile Felix resort tourism compound, for 2021 reported RON82 million turnover, up 54% on the year.
Private hospital Sanconfind of Campina, with a 90-bed capacity, opened in 2015, had 97,000 patients last year and generated RON24 million turnover.19015 items