Reporter
Catalina Apostoiu
- Fields
- Companies, Retail&Consumer, Banks-Insurance
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 1.264
Lenovo Wants 5% Of Smartphone Sales In Romania In Several Months
Chinese-held Lenovo, the biggest player on the domestic PC market, has recently launched its smartphone range in Romania, for which it expects sales of 100,000 units by next spring.
Romanian M&A Market Likely To Top EUR2.5B In Best Year After Crisis
Romania’s M&A market is likely to overshoot the EUR2.5 billion mark in 2014, a level it has not reached in the past six years, should two major deals be clinched by the end of December.
Dragasani Vineyard Sees 95% Of Production Destroyed By Hailstorms
The Dragasani vineyard, one of the best-known in Romania, comprising 1,000 hectares of vine, was almost entirely hurt by the powerful hailstorms of mid-July. Thus, this year’s production is...
Food Prices Kept Rising Even While Romanians' Income Faltered
Ziarul Financiar tracked the prices of ten core items in Romanians' baskets over the past six years and analyzed their trend in the May 2008-August 2014 period, when the consumer price index...
Banks In Romania See Loans Worth RON8B Vanish From Portfolios In Just One Year
Banks in Romania had retail and corporate loans worth just 213.8 billion lei (EUR48.3 billion) left in their portfolios at the end of July, a three-year low, as they are unable to sell enoug...
Romania Suffers Double Blow As Birth Rate Halved And Youths Go Abroad
Romania has no long-term strategy to fight depopulation and the economy is feeling the lack of 2.3 million Romanians working abroad and the halving of the birth rate in just two decades.
Constanta Harbor Operators Want In On Grain Trading
Constanta harbor operators are readying investments in grain terminals and warehouses, as they expect agricultural product exports to rise, and also in a move to diversify beyond industrial...
Romania’s Ivatherm: Exports Will Outrun Domestic Sales In Five Years
Dermo-cosmetics producer Ivatherm, controlled by Romanian entrepreneur Rucsandra Hurezeanu, will bring a French executive for the position of export manager in a bid to tap more foreign mark...
Depository Services, A Goldmine For Banks In Romania
Banks in Romania gain 260 million lei (EUR60 million) a year from safekeeping and evaluating assets of investment funds, and such services have become ever more lucrative in recent years, ac...
Prospectiuni Bucuresti Strengthens Presence Abroad
The first half of this year was horrendous, says Gehrig Schultz, general manager of geological exploration company Prospectiuni Bucuresti (PRSN.RO), and chances are slim for the company to m...
Dan Sucu Invests Several Hundred Thousand Euros To Expand Mobexpert Outlet In Pipera
Dan Sucu, the owner of group Mobexpert, says the expansion of Mobexpert Outlet store of Pipera will be completed in September, following investments of several hundred thousand euros.
Austrian Alfred Beck Comes To Romania To Buy Forests, Ends Up Making Wine
Crama Liliac, a EUR5.5 million investment carried out by Austrian businessman Alfred Beck in Romania, is in its fourth year of premium wine production. Sales are estimated at approximately 1...