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Foreign Kings Of Forests Have Romania On Their Radar
The five biggest foreign forest owners have come to own over 80,000 hectares in Romania, according to ZF estimations based on data provided by Zoltan Kosy, country manager with Tornator, one...
Romania Gains Four Places In Competitiveness Ranking
Romania climbed four positions in the world's competitiveness ranking, the so-called World Competitiveness Scoreboard, to number 50, according to the ranking published yesterday by the Inter...
Banks Continue To Borrow From Foreign Sources, But Shift To Long Maturities
Banks continued to borrow from abroad in the first quarter, as the savings capacity of local companies and households is diminishing, but the trend is to switch from shorter maturities to lo...
Buy Food Industry Stocks To Hedge Against Price Increases
One way to hedge against the wave of food price increases is investing in food producers. The shares of edible oil producer Argus Constanta (UARG.RO) and poultry meat processor Avicola Buzau...
Mahu, La Mama: Historic Downtown Can't Live With Restaurants And Coffee Shops Alone
Catalin Mahu, who owns La Mama restaurant chain and Cafepedia coffee shops, says he is not feeling any market revival, though the economy has theoretically exited recession, after it rose by...
How Will Lidl Change The Face Of Retail?
The entry of Germany's Lidl on the domestic market will change the face of Romania's modern retail, a business of EUR7-8 billion annually, with the company set to swallow market share from t...
Bucharest-Listed Companies Doubled Profits In First Quarter
The aggregated turnover of the 120 biggest listed companies that have so far published their financial results for the first quarter went up 26% compared to the same period a year ago, to 19...
Where Are the 200,000 Work Contracts Sealed In Two Weeks That Boc Is Talking About?
The new Labor Code led to the sealing of nearly 200,000 new employment contracts in two weeks' time, says the Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc. However, it is not known which companies hired...
Carlsberg UK Boss To Romanian Brewers: Go In Pubs To Take Market Pulse
Isaac Sheps, currently CEO of Carlsberg UK, a former chairman of Tuborg Romania, says any manager in the beer industry needs to go to pubs and talk to people because this is the only way one...
Big Foreign Banks Bet On Stronger Leu Again
The Romanian leu has once again become interesting in the world's financial centers, which have returned with bets on an appreciation towards 4 lei per euro, after having forgotten about the...
Romanian Investors Try To Buy Into Glencore IPO
Romanian investors are very interested in the public offering of the Swiss group Glencore, the world's largest commodities trader, in which they have already subscribed several million of eu...
Bulgaria Attracts Three Times More EU Infrastructure Funds Than Romania
Romania managed to attract 1% of the European funds available for the Transport Ministry by the end of last year, namely EUR 47 million, while in Bulgaria the absorption rate had reached 7%,...