Passenger traffic on Romania’s airports reached 25 million people in 2023, an increase of 17% on the previous year, data from the Romanian Airport Association (AAR) show.
Aldis, one of the largest meat processors in Romania, plans to make a more than EUR20 million investment in boosting production capacity. The company submitted a RON103 million (over EUR20 million) project to get RON61.9 million (more than EUR12 million) state aid via the INVESTALIM scheme.
Retailer Mega Image, held by Belgian-Dutch group Ahold Delhaize, significantly slowed down expansion in Romania in 2023, the year when its parent group negotiated and announced takeover of retailer Profi, which operates solely in this country. The EUR1.3 billion deal (Pre-IFRS) is now under review by the Competition Council.
Lensa, one of the leading actors on the eyewear market in Romania, has recruited executive Gabriel Cubatov as chief commercial & acquisition officer.
Romania ended 2023 with a record high of new labor contracts, nearly 100,000 more than in 2022, the country's labor ministry 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, remained unchanged at 6.14% on Thursday (Jan. 18, 2024) compared to Wednesday (Jan. 17), after several sessions of decline.