Reporter
Bogdan Alecu
- Fields
- Automotive, Companies, Real Estate
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 303
Tiriac Family Creates Coat Of Arms For Their Business
Tiriac Holdings, the group of companies controlled by billionaire Ion Tiriac, an almost EUR1 billion business operating in automotive, real estate, financial and aviation industries, has sta...
Duster Demand Took Dacia Suppliers By Surprise In April
The increase of the share of Duster in Dacia’s total production to over 50% took not only Renault’s management by surprise but also the company’s suppliers, which could not keep up with orde...
Jeep Picks AutoItalia Against Mercedes As Dealer In Romania
Jeep, one of the most prestigious brands on the domestic car market, is returning to AutoItalia’s portfolio, thus changing its importer for the fifth time in the past twenty years. AutoItali...
The Romanian Who Designed The Body Of Ford’s Most Powerful European Model
Christian Welther moved from Pitesti, southern Romania, to Germany more than 15 years ago and has been working at Ford Europe’s Cologne headquarters for ten years. There he designed the bodi...
Porsche’s Head Of Retail Sees Renewed Demand For Bentley
Alin Tapalaga, general manager of Porsche Inter Auto (PIA), who is in charge of the sales of Bentley in Romania, says he has been receiving signals from the market that “there is renewed dem...
Continental To Hire 2,400 Engineers In Timisoara In New Technology Center
German-held Continental Automotive last week started a EUR20 million investment in Timisoara (western Romania) in a new engineering center and in test labs, on a total area of 30,000 square...
Car Sales Exceed Registrations By 30% In Five Months
The gap between car sales and registrations reached 30% of sales in the first five months of this year, the widest difference recorded in the past few years, reveals a ZF analysis.
Mercedes No Longer Supplies Data To Local Car Market Association
The Mercedes-Benz brand, which sells 200 cars per month on average, no longer features in any section of the statistical bulletin of the Association of Automotive Manufactures and Importers...
Dacia Production Shrinks Further, Only Duster Bucks Trend
Romanian carmaker Dacia could end the first half of the year with a production decline for the first time in the past ten years, after it manufactured almost 10,000 fewer cars in January to...
How a Romanian Woman Became Involved In Michelin's $1B Investment In India
Carmen Petcu, 47, was the first Michelin employee in Romania in 2001. Ten years later, she is leaving for Chennai, India, to be part of a team set to supervise a project worth over $1 billio...
Auto Market In May: Sales Pick Up Speed, But Remain Below 2010 Level
Car sales rose by 15% month-on-month in May, to almost 9,700 units, but the auto market is still weaker than in May 2010, posting the third consecutive month of decline after the positive si...
Valmar, Porsche: Romania Still Boasts The Highest Potential
Porsche Holding Romania, the domestic unit of Porsche Holding Salzburg, one of Europe’s largest dealer networks, lost the third position within the group in terms of turnover to Hungary, acc...