Banca Transilvania financial group reported a consolidated net profit of RON837.7 million for the first quarter of 2023, of which lender Banca Transilvania's profit is RON675.9 million.
The association formed by the Alpla Group (Austria), Ecohelp SRL (Romania) and United Polymer Trading (Switzerland) on Thursday (May 4) inaugurated a PET flakes processing factory in Targu Mures, following an investment of EUR7.5 million.
Romanian state-owned lender CEC Bank ended 2022 with an audited net profit of RON424.3 million, up 16% from 2021, and net interest income of RON1.54 billion, up 43% on the year.
Romanians bought medicines worth RON26.8 billion (EUR5.44 billion) in the period April 2022 – March 2023, at wholesale prices, 20% more than in the year-earlier period, in line with the Cegedim Customer Information report.
Retail sales volume in Romania (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased by 7.3% in unadjusted data and by 6.7% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, in March 2023 compared to March 2022, data from the country’s statistics institute INS showed on Friday (May 5).
New registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport in Romania increased by 3.5% In the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022, data from the country’s statistics institute INS showed on Friday (May 5).
Raiffeisen Bank Romania in the first quarter of 2023 posted RON414 million net profit, from RON218 million in the same period of 2022, amid intense lending activity for all business segments, the good risk profile of customers and in the context of the increase in market rates compared to Q1 2022.
The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), the operator of Romania’s capital market, for the first quarter of this year reported consolidated revenues worth RON12.86 million, down 18% from the same period of 2022, and 68% lower net profit at RON1.76 million amid falling operating revenues and rising operating expenses.
Rares Florea, CEO of winemaker Domeniile Averesti, says Romania’s wine market is doing well, with the company’s sales reaching RON27 million last year, around RON5 million more than in 2021. For 2023, he expects a 20% increase.
Luxury jewelry chain Teilor, with two bond issues listed at the Bucharest Stock Exchange, has announced Thursday evening that Willy Dicu will step down from the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.
Bittnet Systems (BNET.RO), a group of IT companies listed on the main market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, has notified investors that its Board of Directors decided to conduct a primary public offering to sell unsecured corporate bonds of RON5 million.
Small investors bought about RON2.9 million worth of shares in the first day of the Agricover Holding initial public offering on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, Thursday, May 4, 2023, ZF has found from brokers’ platforms.
Romania's finance ministry raised RON1.78 billion on Thursday (May 4, 2023) through two government bond issues, at annual average yields of 7.34% and 7%, respectively.
Metropolitan Life, the second largest player on the life insurance market in terms of underwritings, ended 2022 with a volume of underwritten gross premiums of RON597 million, up 14% versus 2021, as per data provided by the company.
Candidates’ salary expectations are on average 30% – 40% higher than employers’ offers, according to data from Salario, a platform developed by online recruitment website eJobs.
Hungary’s OTP Bank Group, one of the largest banking groups in the region, has started to discreetly probe the market to assess interest from other banks to buy OTP Bank Romania, banking sources told ZF.
Cosmetics producer Farmec plans to invest more than EUR40 million over the next years to relocate the entire production to the Apahida commune where it is already manufacturing a part of its products.
Independent investment fund management company SAI Certinvest said the number of employees grew by 26% on the year in the first quarter of 2023, alongside a 492% surge in the number of new accounts opened on the InvestOnline.ro platform in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period of 2022.
EY assisted the Carrefour Group in the signing of the agreement with Louis Delhaize Group to buy the latter’s Romanian business, which includes 10 Cora hypermarkets and 8 Cora Urban stores, along with almost 2,400 employees.
GoCab Software (CAB.RO), the operator of the cab booking services platform GoCab, reports revenue of over RON2.11 million on the corporate ride segment for the first three months of 2023 and expects revenue of RON13 million for the whole 2023.