The revenue of the two companies surged in 2011 when Interagro’s sales in euros increased by 60% to EUR647.2 million and oil trader Oscar Downstream’s rose by 33.5%, overshooting the EUR500 million mark for the first time.

Telecommunications operator RCS & RDS is the third Romanian business among the top 500, where it was also included the year before. Businessman Zoltan Teszari’s company dropped 18 places compared with the previous year, though.

The group controlled by Ioan Niculaie benefited from very good harvest of last year to boost sales, while Alin Niculaie’s oil product business was driven up by the oil price and oil product excise hikes.

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)