A lot of companies other than traditional energy industry equipment suppliers cater to the needs of the energy companies, be they for medical service, bank services for wage payment or car fleets.
“Enel’s employees in Romania can buy medical service packages for them and their families at preferential prices from each of the large providers of such services: Medicover, Regina Maria or MedLife,” said the officials of Enel Romania, which had almost 4,000 employees last year and posted EUR971.4 million revenue.
Enel is the largest private electricity supplier in Romania and supplies power to Banat, Dobrogea and Muntenia Sud (which includes Bucharest) regions. Enel officials did not say how much the contracts with the three health care providers were worth a year.
The five largest private medical service providers are MedLife, Regina Maria, Medicover, Sanador and Gral. They posted EUR192 million revenue together in 2012, up 24% on 2011.
“The occupational medicine company that provides such services to all E.ON companies in Romania is Medicover,” said the officials of Germany’s E.ON, which supplies electricity and natural gas to Moldova. E.ON posted EUR1.2 billion revenue and had 6,200 employees in Romania last year.
Nuclearelectrica, one of the largest energy producers in Romania, which manages the two reactors of the Cernavoda nuclear plant (SE of the country), has a 15.7 million (EUR3.55 million) two-year contract with Iowemed medical center. Iowemed has five centers, two of which in Constanta, one in Cernavoda, one in Navodari and one in Eforie. The contract with Nuclearelectrica covers the employees of the plant in Cernavoda.
“The executive employees of Nuclearelectrica are covered under a 12-month contract with Diagnostic Medical Center, Outpatient Treatment and Preventive Medicine Bucharest worth up to RON100,000,” Nuclearelectrica officials added.
The company has more than 2,100 employees.
Other state-run companies have their own in-house medical staff.
“Periodical health check-ups are done by our in-house staff, except for those employee categories (professional drivers, crane operators etc.) required to undergo specific annual check-ups under the law,” say the officials of state-run Romgaz, the largest natural gas producer of Romania.
The company posted EUR862 million revenue and had 5,900 employees last year.
Banks, too, are vying to get major energy companies as their customers.
“The banks GDF SUEZ Energy Romania and its branches Distrigaz Confort and Distrigaz Sud Retele work with to manage employees expenses are ING Bank, BRD and Raiffeisen Bank,” the representatives of GDF SUEZ Energy Romania said.
The company posted EUR908.2 million revenue last year and had more than 3,600 employees.
Romgaz works with BCR, BRD, CEC Bank, Banca Transilvania, ING Bank, RBS Bank, UniCredit Romania and MKB Nextebank for wage payment.
“Payment goes to the personal accounts of the employees according to their preferences,” the company officials said. Nuclearelectrica uses BCR to pay its employees.
E.ON has a 2,000 car fleet, some of which leased and some purchased, while rival GDF SUEZ has 1,200 cars all of which its own.
“(…) 75% of them are Dacia, Renault and Nissan. Other brands include Volkswagen, Peugeot and Citroen. The company owns all its cars,” GDF SUEZ Energy Romania officials said.
Romgaz has 806 cars.
CEZ, OMV Petrom, Hidroelectrica, Transgaz and Complexul Energetic Hunedoara representatives did not provide any answer to ZF’s questions. (EUR1=RON4.4278)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)