Reporter
Gabriel Razi
- Fields
- Retail&Consumer, Companies, Social/Politics
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 59
Caussade GM: Agribusiness Profits Attract Investors Like Magnet
The investors who had nothing to do with farming three or four years ago are now rushing to start a business in the sector, attracted by the high prices of agricultural raw materials that ge...
Khaled El Solh’s Plans For Caroli: Brand Restructuring, Return To Profit And Acquisitions
Khaled El Solh, one of the founders of cold cuts producer Caroli Foods Group, who has been running the company since the second half of last year, intends to bring the company back to growth...
Claas Sells More Combines In Romania Than In Spain And Italy
Combine harvester and tractor maker Claas saw higher sales of agricultural machinery in Romania last year than it did in Spain and Italy, countries with a larger area of farming land, which...
Alfred Toepfer Continues Investment In Romania With 18,000-Ton Silo
Alfred C. Toepfer International, the second leading agricultural raw materials trader on the Romanian market, with more than EUR400 million in revenues a year, is building an 18,000-ton silo...
KWS Relies On Corn Seed Business For Growth
Agricultural seeds producer KWS, a company with EUR0.9 billion in revenues from worldwide operations, has already run out of the corn seed stock allotted for this year’s farming season in Ro...
Porumboiu Bets On Sunflower And Corn After Rapeseed Disappoints
Adrian Porumboiu, one of the top ten agricultural producers in Romania, has this year increased the areas cultivated with sunflower and corn by up to 83%, out of an overall area of 27,000 he...
Agriculture Minister: Food Exports Should Target Asian Market
Exports of agri-food products will exceed imports only in 2014, when exports of processed products are expected to rise, while the current bet is on exports to Asian markets, where local pro...
Rabobank Owns EUR20M Worth Of Farmland In Romania
Dutch bank Rabobank is one of the most aggressive investors in farmland on the local market, having bought land worth EUR20 million in the last sixteen months, or 10,000 to 15,000 hectares,...
Bunge In Talks With Prio Foods Over Vegetable Oil Plant
U.S. food conglomerate Bunge is in advanced talks with food products maker Prio Foods to take over the latter’s vegetable oil plant located in Lehliu Gara (southern Romania).
Boc Government Failed To Collect EUR2.3B In Budget Revenue
The National Statistics Institute announced a gross domestic product of 578 billion lei (EUR133 billion) in 2011, RON31 billion higher than the level used for building last year's budget.
Smithfield Wants To Export Around 85,000 Pigs To Europe
U.S. group Smithfield, the largest pig farmer in Romania, plans to export at least 10% of its farms’ local production.
Pambac Bacau Posts Highest Profit In Past Four Years, Targets Exports
Alin Giurea, chairman and shareholder of milling and bakery company Pambac Bacau wants 5% of his company revenue to come from sales abroad, considering consumer spending on the domestic mark...