The company’s management says people were hired both for the Romanian market and for the three new foreign offices, opened this year in Hungary, the Republic of Moldova and Poland.
The company ended 2010 with total turnover worth 31 million lei (around EUR7.4 million) and expects 20% higher turnover this year. Arobs posted turnover of RON15.6 million in the first half of 2011, up 14% from a year ago.
“In the first half of this year, our turnover was bolstered by the rising number of clients on the domestic market of vehicle fleet GPS monitoring solutions and sales optimization solutions. At the same time, there were rising sales of GPS Smailo navigation systems as a result of the expansion of distribution operations in Hungary, Republic of Moldova and Poland,” Voicu Oprean, general manager of Arobs Transilvania Software, told ZF Transilvania.
The company’s management also said the first half saw an increasing number of outsourcing projects for European clients. At present, Arobs has over 800 clients in Romania.
The company’s management says it will introduce the TMC (Traffic Message Channel) system on the Romanian market by the end of this year, allowing drivers to get real time traffic messages. The service will be available both for private companies needing information to plan the best routes, and for the other navigation system producers of Romania, though Arobs Trafic Services.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu; Editing by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)