Capital city Bucharest remained the most dynamic office lease market in the first half of 2024 too, with local companies covering 84% of the total volume of office spaces transacted in Romania, as per an analysis by Fortim Trusted Advisors, a member of the BNP Paribas Real Estate Alliance.
City Grill Group, one of the leading actors in the Romanian restaurant industry, founded by Dragos Petrescu, ended the first half of 2024 with a turnover of EUR31 million, up 18% from the same period of 2023, and carried out investments worth EUR1.5 million.
Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), the largest lender in Romania by assets, notified the Bucharest Stock Exchange of having signed the papers to complete the acquisition of OTP Bank Romania in its entirety from OTP Bank Nyrt and Merkantil Bank Zrt on July 30.
Local startup QOOBISS, a fintech company focused on process automation and specializing in the development of remote identity verification solutions using video means, is investing half a million euros in 2024 in Origin, a global platform for the complete digitalization of interraction with clients.
InterCapital Asset Management, Croatia’s biggest independent investment manager and the manager of InterCapital BET-TRN UCITS EFT, the newest ETF tradeable at the Bucharest Stock Exchange, announced the value of assets managed by the fund has topped EUR15 million.
Investment fund Innova Capital has sold Optical Investment Group, a leading retail of optical eyecare and eyewear products in Romania, which includes retail operations (OptiBlu and Optiplaza stores) and wholesale ones, to one of the world’s largest players on the optical market, giant EssilorLuxottica.