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Glovo, the on-demand delivery platform, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based real estate firm, Stoneweg, as the company expands its newly-launched Q-Commerce division. The agreement will see Stoneweg invest EUR 100 million in building and refurbishing prime city real estate in some of Glovo’s key markets. This will help accelerate […]

Starting with January of this year, Valentin Vasile holds the position of Marketing Director of Schneider Electric Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Valentin’s appointment is an internal promotion, from his previous position of Customer Satisfaction & Quality Business Partner at Schneider Electric Romania, a position he held for three years.   “Valentin’s arrival as […]

Romanian technology startup Tailent, specialized in the development of software robots that allow companies to automate and optimize a wide range of operational processes while giving the existent team the opportunity to focus on more relevant activities, democratizes access to intelligent Robot Process Automation (RPA) solutions through a technological partnership with Aliant, a company that […]

Romania's economy is expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels around mid-2022, with 3.7% economic growth in 2021 and 5% growth in 2022 after an estimated contraction of 5.5% in 2020, UniCredit Bank analysts estimate.

Cognizant has entered into an agreement to acquire Magenic Technologies, Inc., a privately-held custom software development services company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The acquisition will expand Cognizant’s software product engineering footprint, adding 475 employees in the U.S. across seven locations and more than 350 employees in Manila, Philippines. Upon completion of the acquisition, Magenic associates will […]

Restart Energy, a local independent supplier of electricity and natural gas founded in 2015 in Timisoara, is preparing a corporate bond issue of EUR3-5 million on the Bucharest Stock Exchange to support its investment program.

Call for Leaders – 3Q is a BR exclusive interview series, which features our 3 questions with some of Romania’s top business professionals, bringing a positive, insightful, or otherwise constructive view of their markets in the context of the current crisis.   Current conversation: Adrian Craioveanu – Marketing Director DAAS International Group   1.How do you define […]

Restart Energy, one of the largest independent suppliers of electricity and natural gas on the local market, aims to double the number of household customers this year to 65,000 and increase its revenues about 80 percent – up to RON 220 million. The growth is determined by the liberalization of the energy market and new […]

MAM Bricolaj, a supplier of materials and accessories for furniture, held by the Gavan Family, will start trading its shares Thursday, January 21, under the ticker symbol MAM, on the alternative trading system AeRO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, per stock market data.

Romania’s real estate investment market showed resilience in the face of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, with the volume of transactions reaching EUR914 million, 28% higher than in 2019, per the Romania Investment Marketbeat report released by real estate consulting firm Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.

Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) plans to implement a unitary approach for the management of the stock market, insurance and private pension sectors, through the coordination of all services by a general department, according to the ASF strategy for 2021-2023.

Real estate consulting company CBRE has brokered the extension of the lease contract for a space of approximately 85,000 square meters occupied by Carrefour Group within the P3 Bucharest A1 industrial park located in western Bucharest.

Ploiesti-based iHunt Technology (HUNT.RO), a producer and supplier of mobile phones and hi-tech gadgets, whose shares climbed 41% in 2021, received shareholders’ approval for a bond issue worth RON7 million, for a four-year period, and a maximum interest rate of 9% per year.

Cleaning products group Interstar Chim has seen its sales surge during the pandemic, when people bought a lot of household cleaning and personal care products, i.e. soap and sanitizer.

Construction group Apolodor posted growth of 6% in revenue to 91 million lei in 2020 but is cautious about this year’s results.

Dendrio Solutions, owned by Bittnet Systems (simbol bursier BNET.RO), has signed a RON22.8 million framework agreement with the Ministry of Defense for the provision of IT&C equipment.

Starting February 1, Cecilia Tudor becomes managing director for the Renault Brand for South Eastern Europe, following the organization of Groupe Renault around its brands, grouped in four business units, the company announced Tuesday.

BeeFast, a local super fast delivery tech start-up, has grown from 16 deliveries / day in early 2020 to a maximum of 580 deliveries / day by the end of the year. 65 percent of the turnover was generated by the customers that BeeFast moved for free from offline to online, during the pandemic. BeeFast […]

BR sat down with Dragos Mindreci, Country Manager Betano Romania, and Roxana Ciocanau Dinescu, Marketing Manager – Brand and Communication, to find out more about the industry the company is operating in, how it adapted to the recent changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the differences between the Romanian and the other international markets, investments […]

Business interruption, pandemic outbreak and cyber incidents are the top three business risks globally for 2021, all strongly interlinked, according to the latest Allianz Risk Barometer survey.