Energy companies dominate the top ten, with a new entry, MOL, coming from the same sector, followed by grocery retail, while the automotive sector only claimed one place, as Automobile Dacia was again the largest company in Romania.
ZF compiled the ranking of the top ten businesses with at least one billion euros in revenue based on the data announced by companies, the growth pace in the first half and how their respective markets performed. In case of groups comprising several entities, only the largest entity was taken into account.
The four largest companies in Romania according to this ranking are Automobile Dacia, OMV Petrom, Rompetrol Rafinare and retailer Kaufland.
Judging from the growth pace of Automobile Dacia in the first half of 2015, the company could end the year with 19.2 billion lei (EUR4.3 billion) revenue. Rival Petrom dropped to RON13.9 billion (EUR3.1 billion) due to the oil price decline, but remains the only one that can challenge Dacia to the top spot. Rompetrol Rafinare’s revenue reached RON9.8 billion last year, down 27% on 2014, but the company returned to profit.
Kaufland Romania, the local retail leader with a network of 108 hypermarkets, posted almost RON9 billion revenue last year, over 10% more than in 2014, according to ZF estimates. (EUR1=RON4.4619)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)