Romania’s top oil and gas company OMV Petrom on April 30 announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2026: the operating result increased significantly compared to the same period of 2025, while the net profit fell slightly due to fiscal and financial factors which offset the good operational performance.
BCR Group ended the first quarter of 2026 with net profit of RON602 million (EUR118 million), lower than the RON742 million level reported in the same period of 2025.
The Bucharest hotel market had the best performance in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE-6) in 2025, with a 12% annual increase in the average revenue per available room (RevPAR), compared to 9.1% in Warsaw and 8.3% in Prague, per an analysis by real estate consulting firm Cushman & Wakefield.
Turkish heavy commercial and armored vehicle manufacturer Otokar Otomotiv ve Savunma Sanayi A.Ş has announced the agreement for the acquisition of Automecanica S.A. and its production facility of Medias, Romania, for around EUR85 million, has been signed.
Medicine sales declined by 8.3% by volume in the first quarter of 2026, but went up by 3.7% by value, to a total of RON9.4 billion, as retail drugs rose by 3.1% and medicines distributed in hospitals increased by 7.6%, in line with Cegedim data.
The Romanian leu has reached an-all time low against the euro by midday Thursday (April 30) and the central bank set the leu’s reference rate versus the euro at 5.1418 units amid a lingering political crisis that started at the end of last week.