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Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu

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Companies, Capital Market, Retail&Consumer
Writing for ZF since
2011
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Low Interest Rates And Rise In Spending Drive Consumers’ Bank Deposits Down
Banks-Insurance

Low Interest Rates And Rise In Spending Drive Consumers’ Bank Deposits Down

New deposits in domestic currency made by individual customers of banks in Romania stood at 136 billion lei (EUR30 billion) in January-August, down 7.4% on the year-ago period, according to...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 17.10.2016 · 09:00 · 1 min
Schaeffler: Number Of Employees Could Go Up By 10% To 20% Over The Next Four Years
Companies

Schaeffler: Number Of Employees Could Go Up By 10% To 20% Over The Next Four Years

Schaeffler Romania, the local subsidiary of Germany’s Schaeffler group, has reached 4,000 employees in this country and plans to boost the headcount of the plant in Cristian, Brasov County f...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 17.10.2016 · 00:00 · 1 min
Contec Foods To Enter Frozen Vegetable Market
Companies

Contec Foods To Enter Frozen Vegetable Market

Contec Foods, one of the leading canned fruit and vegetable companies in Romania, expects revenue to reach more than EUR25.5 million this year, up 10% on 2015. The growth in revenue has made...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 17.10.2016 · 00:00 · 1 min
Altex: Purchases From Mobile Devices Generate About 10% Of Our Online Sales
Retail&Consumer

Altex: Purchases From Mobile Devices Generate About 10% Of Our Online Sales

About 10% of the online sales of computer and electronics retailer Altex are generated by purchases from mobile devices, while the traffic from mobile phone and tablets is much higher, about...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 17.10.2016 · 00:00 · 1 min
The Stake Of Octavian Radu’s Entry On The Unaddressed Mail Market
Companies

The Stake Of Octavian Radu’s Entry On The Unaddressed Mail Market

The courier service market brought businessman Octavian Radu two failures in the past – TCE Logistica and Curiero, which did not survive the crisis in 2009-2010. The entrepreneur, however, h...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 14.10.2016 · 10:00 · 2 min
Banks-Insurance

BNR: Conversion Of Swiss Franc Loans Sends Two Lenders Below Minimum Solvency Level

Romania’s central bank (BNR) says that the conversion of the Swiss franc loans at the historical exchange rate could drive the solvency of two banks under the minimum requirement, and in all...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 14.10.2016 · 10:00 · 1 min
Mega Image Headed To EUR1B Sales After 32% Growth In H1
Retail&Consumer

Mega Image Headed To EUR1B Sales After 32% Growth In H1

The sales of retailer Mega Image should go beyond 4.7 billion lei (over EUR1 billion) in 2016, if growth continues at the same pace in the second half.

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 14.10.2016 · 10:00 · 1 min
RCS&RDS Bonds Oversubscribed In London
Banks-Insurance

RCS&RDS Bonds Oversubscribed In London

The London market met the leu and euro bond issue of RCS&RDS, which ended October 12, with a lot of interest.

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 14.10.2016 · 10:00 · 1 min
Entrepreneurs In Arad And Bihor: Huge Pressure On Wages, We’ve Raised Them 60% In Two Years
Companies

Entrepreneurs In Arad And Bihor: Huge Pressure On Wages, We’ve Raised Them 60% In Two Years

The rise in minimum gross wage to 1,250 lei (EUR278) from RON850 in 2014 (47% in two years) is putting pressure on the local companies, which have had to find solutions today for the wage ex...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 13.10.2016 · 10:00 · 3 min
Michael Schmidt Plans Hotel Investment, Expansion To Volume Brands
Automotive

Michael Schmidt Plans Hotel Investment, Expansion To Volume Brands

Michael Schmidt, the businessman behind the Automobile Bavaria group wants to add a new line of business and invest in a national hotel chain, as well as enter the volume auto market by addi...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 13.10.2016 · 10:00 · 2 min
Romanian Plant Makes Plastic Tableware For Dom Perignon And Nespresso
Companies

Romanian Plant Makes Plastic Tableware For Dom Perignon And Nespresso

Italian-held Gold Plast group has been making plastic tableware in a plant in Topoloveni, Arges County (southern Romania) for a decade, which winemakers like Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot,...

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 13.10.2016 · 10:00 · 1 min
Foreign Equity Funds Beat Romanian Funds By Yearly Yield
Capital Market

Foreign Equity Funds Beat Romanian Funds By Yearly Yield

Foreign equity funds available in Romania posted yields of up to 29% in the past twelve months, which are even three times higher than the average yield of a Romanian equity fund.

Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu · 12.10.2016 · 10:00 · 1 min