The acquisition was carried out through Ascendis Association, an organization founded in 2016 with the aim of supporting education in Romania, and the profits generated by the activity of the two publications will be used to fund the programs of the association.
On the short term, Ascendis’ plans aim to expand the distribution of the two magazines across Romania’s main cities too, as well as in the Republic of Moldova. On the medium term, the objective is to increase the frequency of issuing the two publications and create new content formats to meet the external and internal communication needs of companies and institutions in Romania’s public sector.
“Alongside the current team, we seek to continue the mission of informing and sharing the good leadership practices which they assumed ever since inception and to invest in creating the biggest communication platform for the HR community in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and abroad”, said Andrei Gosu, Managing Partner of Ascendis Group.
CARIERE and HR Manager magazines go back 22 years in the local market. Female founder Fondatoarea Catalina Sefer and General Director Monica Neumorni have so far coordinated the Group’s activity and will stay with the Ascendis team in order to further continue the activity of the two publications.
The new management team also includes Adelina Mihai (Ascendis consultant), who had worked as a journalist at Ziarul Financiar daily for 14 years, and Ionut Tarcea, the coordinator of the innovation division X by Ascendis.
Ascendis Group, founded in 1997, consists of companies Ascendis Consulting (training, team building and corporate events, consultancy, appraisal services, coaching, market studies), Code of Talent (a digital learning platform created in partnership with the company Co-Factor), Ascendis Moldova, Ascendis Ukraine and Ascendis Association.
Ascendis ended 2023 with a turnover of nearly EUR11 million.