Reporter
Catalina Apostoiu
- Fields
- Companies, Retail&Consumer, Banks-Insurance
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 1.264
EnergoBit Shareholder Shifts From Energy To Healthcare
The Socea family, a stakeholder in EnergoBit, a major supplier of equipment and services for the energy sector, is making its first major investment after ceding control of the company in 20...
Romanian Soap Market Defies Crisis
Romanians annually earmark the largest sum in Europe for soap, each consumer spending on average EUR3.2. According to ZF data, this is the only product category where Romanians lead, while i...
Rose Wine Starts Claiming Its Place On The Romanian Market
Rose wine has come to weigh 7-8% of Romania's overall wine market, virtually shaping up in the past two-three years, when it’s proved to be the most dynamic segment of the field.
Winemaker Davino: 2014 Will Be A Profitable Year
Entrepreneur Dan Balaban, who controls Davino winemaker, says this year’s production will be an average one, specific of a normal year. However, production will be 30% lower than the 2013 re...
Romanians, Laggards By Sums Spent On Packaged Food
Romanians spend around EUR300 annually on packaged food, twice as little as Croatians or Estonians, who rank first in Eastern Europe, reveals a ZF survey based on data provided by Euromonito...
Small Romanian Businesses Need EUR2M Sales To Secure Profit
Just one third of the nearly 520,000 small and medium-sized companies that operated in Romania last year managed to rake in profits of above EUR1,000 at the end of the 12 months.
Foreigners Withdrew EUR330M From Deposits Set Up With Banks In Romania In One Year
Foreigners, largely banking groups, in late August held medium and long-term deposits opened with local banks worth EUR6.34 billion, EUR300 million below the level of the year-earlier period...
TCC: Romanian Market Has Huge Growth Potential
The Romanian retail market is highly fragmented, a reason why it will witness new acquisitions and mergers in the coming years and players that are too small to hold top positions will exit...
Renault Commercial Roumanie’s New Head Set To Defend Dacia’s 30% Market Share
The Romanian government can make further moves to prop sales of new cars and the new scheme it proposed, the First Car, can function in parallel with the future clunkers scheme, says Czech-b...
Rehau Polymer Expects 5% Revenue Growth In 2015 Amid Slightly Rising Construction Field
The Romanian market has two main growth opportunities, coming from European funds and exports, maintains Bela Varga, general manager of Rehau Polymer, the local subsidiary of Germany’s group...
Hidroelectrica Aims For RON1B Profit, Eyes Exports To Hungary And Serbia
Romanian energy producer Hidroelectrica, the country’s biggest, in the first nine months of this year generated gross profit worth 817 million lei (EUR185 million), up 20% from the year earl...
Firms That Bid RASDAQ Farewell About Transfer To BVB: “A Bold Decision That Will Ease Access To Funding”
The managers of the companies that have already switched from RASDAQ to the regulated market of the bourse say that entering the “top trading floor of the capital market” was a “bold” decisi...