Retail trade volume in Romania decreased by 2.1% in September 2025 compared to September 2024, according to data released by the European statistical office Eurostat.
Contakt Express Logistik S.A., the leader of the Romanian market of phone and tablet accessories, has received approval from the Financial Supervisory Authority for its prospectus and for conducting its initial public offering and then listing on the secondary market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, AeRO, as CTK, following successful completion of the IPO.
Retail sales volume in Romania (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased by 1.6% in unadjusted data and by 2.2% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, in January - September 2025 compared to the same period of 2024, per data from the country’s statistical office INS.
Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) is the first financial institution to sign a guarantee agreement with the Investment and Development Bank of Romania (BID), under the portfolio guarantee program designed to support the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to increase entrepreneurs’ access to sustainable financing.
Romanian authorities seized over 186 million contraband cigarettes, with an estimated black-market value of RON172.8 million in the first ten of 2025, more than three times the total seizures recorded in 2024, per data aggregated on the www.stopcontrabanda.ro platform, the only real-time tracker of illegal cigarette seizures in Romania, developed by British American Tobacco (BAT).