Cristian Oradan is succeeding Voicu Vuscan, who held the position for over a decade and is now pursuing some personal projects.
Cristian Oradan started his activity at Vericom, in 2001, which is part of Elit now, a company that was integrated. Since 2017, Oradan has held the position of General Manager of Elit, one of the leading cold cuts producers in Romania, with four factories on the local market, located in Alba, Arad and Bucharest.
Elit produces over 30,000 tons of cold cuts per year through several own brands such as Elit, Plin de carne, Premia, Promo and Veri, in line with the latest data from Ziarul Financiar (ZF) daily. The company has 50 own stores, but it also sells its products through supermarket and hypermarket chains.
The company has been present on the local maket for 20 years. Since 2018, it has been part of Chinese group Smithfield, which is the largest swine breeding company in Romania.
Elit was founded by Dorin Mateiu,an entrepreneur who now owns swine breeding company Cirrus Comexim.