Top 50 Largest Employers In Romania In 2012

Last year the 50 largest companies in the economy by number of employees laid off almost 14,500 employees and hired almost 12,500 people, so the balance is negative for companies that used to set the tone by hiring massive numbers of employees.

The Romanian postal company Posta Romana remained in 2012 the largest employer in the economy, and the only company with over 30,000 employees. 2012 could be the last year when the company reports an average number of employees of over 30,000, considering that negotiations are ongoing with the trade unions to cut employee numbers by up to 4,000 after their performance is evaluated.

OMV Petrom, Automobile Dacia and Kaufland are the largest private employers in the Romanian economy. They are also the only private companies to have reported over 10,000 employees in their 2012 balance sheets.

“We noticed last year a continuation of multinationals’ efforts for more efficient staff numbers and to cut costs, but no more massive layoffs were made. In parallel, some hiring has been done for newly-created jobs, but mostly for replacements in key positions,” says Oana Datki, country manager of Consulteam, the Romanian representative of human resources giant Mercer. She says most of the hiring was done last year within companies that expanded, such as companies in retail, in production of automotive parts and of parts for the oil and gas industry.

The largest number of companies from one sector – 10 companies out of the 50 largest employers in the economy – operate in the automotive sector, especially on the segment of production of components for the auto industry. Automobile Dacia, Ford, Delphi Packard, Draexlmaier, Continental Automotive, Autoliv, Leoni Wiring Systems and Schaeffler are just a few of the companies that have done a lot of hiring even during the crisis years. The second best represented sector after the auto industry is food retail, where eight companies – Kaufland, Carrefour, Mega Image, real,-Hypermarket Romania, Selgros, Auchan, Cora and Profi Rom Food – reported between 3,000 and 10,000 employees last year.

The private sector did the most hiring in 2012, but only four companies – telecom operator RCS&RDS, supermarket chain Mega Image, food retailer Kaufland and DIY retailer Dedeman – hired more than 1,000 people in 2012 against the 2011 numbers.

“This year companies seem to make fewer layoffs than last year, companies have started to hire more people especially in engineering, IT and marketing, but the bad news is wage rise predictions are lower than in the years before,” Oana Datki of Consulteam also said.

Ranking of the 50 largest employers in the economy in 2012                                                            

Notes:

1. The ranking only includes companies that have up to now published their results with the Finance Ministry, have published last year’s results in the financial results available on the website or have answered ZF’s request for information for putting together the “Largest players in the economy” yearbook. The ranking could also include companies such as CFR SA (with 23,839 employees in 2011), Takata Romania (with 4,229 employees in 2011), Regia Autonoma pentru Activitati Nucleare (with 3,659 employees in 2011) and Johnson Controls (with 3,350 employees in 2011), but the companies have not yet submitted their balance sheets for 2012.

2. Complexul Energetic Oltenia was set up in the middle of last year following the merger of four state-run energy companies: Societatea Nationala a Lignitului Oltenia Tg. Jiu, Complexul Energetic Turceni, Complexul Energetic Rovinari and Complexul Energetic Craiova. In the table, the average number of employees in 2011 is calculated by adding together the number of employees of each of the four entities.

Sources: Trade Registry, Finance Ministry, companies, ZF yearbook “Largest players in the economy in 2012”

(English version by Daniela Stoican)