“2021 was a very good year for us, we saw turnover go up by 77%, all the fields posted growth. For this year, we’ve budgeted 10% higher turnover. We plan to continue hiring, 20-30 people this year,” Adrian Porfir, manager for southeastern Europe, told ZF.
All the segments witnessed solid demand, from the warehouse to the online store sector, local plants, as well as hypermarket networks. In 2021, the company announced it would hire another 20 people for the distribution center it’s developing in Buftea.
Belgium’s Joris Ide group was acquired by Irish construction materials manufacturer Kingspan Group in 2015. Joris Ide used to operate as Megaprofil in Romania until a few years ago and then changed name to Joris Ide SRL.
In July 2020, TeraPlast Group, the largest Romanian producer of construction materials, with a turnover of nearly RON1 billion in 2019, signed an agreement to sell its Steel division to Ireland’s Kingspan., the owner of Joris Ide. The value of the Steel Division is estimated at RON410 million. In the early 2021, the European Commission approved the transaction.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)