Travel agency Eturia ended 2021 with a 35% increase in sales volume compared to 2019, to about EUR15 million. The tour operator has reintroduced to its portfolio of offers for 2022 destinations that were partially or totally closed in the last two years, such as Cuba, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, USA, Argentina, Jamaica and Bali.
New consumer and mortgage loans taken by consumers from banks, in lei and euros, accelerated in 2021 to a 15-year high, after declining in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Romania’s central bank data show.
Romania’s Finance Ministry plans to raise RON5.2 billion on the domestic market in February 2022, of which RON4.6 million from banks, to which the amount of RON630 million can be added from the allocations of additional sessions of non-competitive offers organized exclusively for benchmark-type instruments.
Scandinavian furniture and home décor retailer JYSK is continuing its expansion in Romania by opening a new store, in Campina (Prahova County), on Thursday (Feb 3), reaching a 113-unit network on the local market.
Germany’s retailer Kaufland is opening a hypermarket in Turnu Magurele (Teleorman County), reaching a total 149 hypermarkets in Romania.
The Romanian Senate adopted on Wednesday (February 2) a legislative proposal aimed at simplifying the taxation of capital market investors, but the Chamber of Deputies is decider on the matter.
The Bucharest Stock Exchange on Wednesday said the bonds issued by Stanleybet Capital, in the amount of RON20 million, will start trading on the Multilateral Trading System, under the ticker SBET24, on Friday (February 4).
OTP Bank Romania, the domestic subsidiary of Hungary’s biggest banking group, has announced a 75% surge in the number of clients who carried out banking transactions using the Internet Banking service in the pandemic period 2020-2021, compared to 2019.
AROBS Transilvania Software (AROBS.RO), a Romanian IT company that provides software services and solutions, wants to increase its share capital by RON45.5 million up to RON91 million, by incorporating the issuance premium.
Real estate consultancy company Colliers has promoted Oana Stamatin to the position of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Chief Officer in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), now including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.