Reporter
Catalina Apostoiu
- Fields
- Companies, Retail&Consumer, Banks-Insurance
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 1.264
Inditex Buys Garments From 100 Suppliers In Romania
Inditex, the owner of Zara brand and the world’s largest fashion retailer, has contracts with around 100 plants in Romania, with Romanian producers accounting for 25% in the group’s total nu...
Car Industry Reshuffled Romanian Export Structure
The share of transport equipment in the overall exports rose from 3% to 14% between 2000 and 2013, during a period when the value of exports increased from EUR11 billion to EUR49 billion, wh...
Cement Giants Lafarge And Holcim Will Sell Plants To Complete Merger
The merger between Lafarge (France) and Holcim (Switzerland), set to create a new leader on the world’s cement market, with total sales of EUR30 billion, will also involve plant sales.
New State Aid Scheme For Companies In Romania
The Romanian state is set to cover part of salary expenses for around 1,500 companies that should create a total of 30,000 new jobs within a seven-year period, with the budget of the new sta...
Owner Of Romania’s Biggest Transporter Bets On Agriculture And Intermodal Transport
Ion Lazar currently owns the biggest transporter on the Romanian market, taking into account all the seven companies that make up Lazar group of firms.
Kaufland Demolishes Grivita Brewery To Develop Real Estate Project
Kaufland, the biggest player in Romania’s food retail, and businessman Ionut Dumitrescu, the founder of Eurisko consultancy (the current CBRE Romania), have started pulling down the former G...
H&M In Romania, EUR5.4M Profit In 2013
Each employee of H&M Romania brought the company net income of EUR10,250 in 2013, up 13.5% from 2012, but almost 40% lower than the average contribution of an international employee to the S...
Romania Drew 32% Of EU Infrastructure Funds In 2007-2013
Romania absorbed around EUR1.4 billion (32% of the total) from the EUR4.3 billion the European Union made available for its transport infrastructure during the 2007-2013 period.
Lawyers: Israeli Investors, No Longer On Stand-By, Seeking Real Estate Assets
Israeli investors have started regaining their interest in the Romanian market, after a period of expectancy, and natural gas and real estate projects are their main targets, according to Al...
Listed Bonds Got So Valuable Nobody Wants To Sell Them
Deals with bonds and state paper listed on the Bucharest exchange have plummeted to an average value of 560,000 lei per day, similar with the 2005 level, as the interest rates of listed bond...
Petrom Is Romania's Largest Retailer By Revenue
Petrom’s gas station network of more than 500 units, with revenue of around 15 billion lei (EUR3.4 billion) in 2012, is Romania’s biggest retailer, followed at some distance by Rompetrol gas...
Owners Of Ploiesti DIY Store Artsani Want To Expand To Other Counties
George Tapu and Oleg Tataru, owners of Artsani Com, which with a DIY and building materials store in Ploiesti generates annual sales of almost EUR30 million, are mulling expansion outside Pr...