Arobs opened its first three offices abroad in Budapest, Chisinau and San Diego, California, this year and is also present on the Polish market via local dealers. The company has four offices that make up its headquarters in Cluj Napoca and regional offices in Bucharest, Iasi and Oradea (NE and NW Romania).
“In 2011 we hired 115 people and opened our first three offices abroad, in the Republic of Moldova, Hungary and California. We plan to continue recruiting next year, as well, when we want to hire another 115 people and open an office in Poland, depending on the trend of the market,” Voicu Oprean, general manager of Arobs Transilvania Software told ZF Transilvania.
The company says it will end 2011 with about EUR8 million revenue. Arobs’ business this year was largely driven by the expansion of its operations on international markets where its products are distributed, mainly the Smailo navigation systems and the car fleet monitoring solution TrackGPS.
Arobs operates on three business segments (distribution of navigation systems, software applications for the domestic market and software solutions for foreign markets). Its Romanian customers include transport, FMCG, construction, telecom, courier service and security companies, among which RCS&RDS, Farmec, Betty Ice, Pan Petrol, Soceram, Dorsan, Deme Macarale, Trans Agape, AG Med, Elit and Altex. It posted 31 million lei (about EUR7.2 million) revenue in 2010. (EUR1=RON4.3045)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)