Reporter
Mirabela Tiron
- Fields
- Companies, Health, Analysis
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 460
Hilton Remains Copos’ Best Hotel, Despite Revenue Drop
Bucharest’s Athenee Palace Hilton five-star hotel, owned by businessman George Copos, ended the first half of this year with 3% lower revenue from last year, operating at an average occupanc...
Howard Johnson Hotel Business Remains At EUR4M In 1H
Five-star Howard Johnson Hotel in Bucharest posted EUR4 million revenue in the first half of the year, the same as in the first half of 2011, company officials told ZF.
Wave Of Last-Minute Holidays
Five planes took off on Wednesday to Antalya from Otopeni airport and others to Rhodes or Tenerife, all of them charter flights through which Romanian tourists are carried to holiday destina...
Madalina Cretu Steps Down As Malev Country Manager After Seven Years
Madalina Cretu, Malev country manager for Romania and the Republic of Moldova, is set to leave this position on August 1, after having run the domestic operations of the Hungarian airline fo...
Contracts With Oil Companies Lift Gruia Stoica’s Railway Operator Business
Grup Feroviar Roman (GFR), the largest private railway operator on the Romanian market, controlled by businessman Gruia Stoica, ended the first six months with sales of 253 million lei (EUR5...
Fan Courier Pays More Attention To Small Clients
Fan Courier, one of the largest Romanian-held courier service companies, ended the first half with 8% to 9% higher turnover compared with the same period a year ago. The growth pace was slow...
GeoPost Prepares To Take Full Control Of DPD Courier
French-held GeoPost, a subsidiary of the French postal service, is preparing to buy the remaining 20% stake in parcel delivery service provider DPD, which will give it full control of the co...
Posta Romana Terminates EUR90M Contracts
Romania’s state-owned postal company, with EUR327 million in turnover and EUR29 million losses last year, has terminated three contracts worth around EUR90 million in total, signed between 2...
J’Info Tours Triples Profit In Crisis Year
“What’s the euro/leu exchange rate?” are the first words that Aurel Pavel, owner of J’Info Tours travel agency, says to an assistant. The answer is prompt: nearly 4.18 lei to a euro. J’Info...
Seaside Hotel Operators Try To Persuade Clients To Book More Nights
Seaside hotel operators are clinging on to their profits and selling holiday packages cheaper only if they include at least three nights’ stay, although increasingly more Romanians opt for t...
Pilots Follow Physicians Out Of Romania
Low salaries and few employment opportunities are the main factors prompting Romanian pilots to seek work abroad, where an aircraft captain can earn as much as EUR10,000 per month and an ent...
Wave Of New Hotels To Be Opened This Year
Investors on the hotel market have seen the last two years as an opportunity to develop new hotels, despite the drop in demand.