Of the 56 Romanian businesses in the ranking, only three are entrepreneurial businesses – Dedeman, Altex, and Fildas.
Carmaker Automobile Dacia is the largest company in Romania in the top 500 and ranks at 14. The next Romanian company in the ranking is oil and has company OMW Petrom, at 31. The top includes five Romanian new-entries.
“The sturdiest growth exhibited by a company in Romania was Star Assembly (a division of Daimler) which had a turnover fives times higher after investments in 2016 and climbed around number 100 in the ranking,” said Eugen Anicescu, country manager Coface Romania.
Romania’s best represented sectors in the CEE ranking are the auto industry, the chemical industry, oil and retail.
In 2011, Romania had 44 companies in the Top 500, in 2016 it had a record 65 companies and the number dropped to 56 in 2017.
Romania ranks fourth in the region by number of companies in the ranking, after Poland (175 companies), Hungary (71 companies), and Czech Republic (67 companies).