Economics
December 11, 2013 15:50
With an emerging economy struggling to overcome the impact of the economic crisis, Romania must focus all the efforts on its reindustrialization in order to be able to eventually align with other EU economies. Reindustrialization is thereby a second chance, an essential step for Romania’s economy to grow after 20 years of neglecting the development potential this sector has...more »
December 10, 2013 15:21
As for today, Adrian Apolzan, Director of the Corporate Affairs Division at ING Bank, is the president of the Board of Directors of Romanian Post. His appointment was announced by Ion Smeeianu, the company’s General Manager, quoted by Agerpres....more »
December 10, 2013 13:47
Exports level reaches record high in October 2013 when the FOB (Free On Board) exports amounted to 4.7 billion euro. According to the preliminary estimations of INS (the National Institute of Statistics), CIF (Cost, Insurance & Freight) imports reached about 5.35 billion euro during the evaluated period....more »
December 06, 2013 12:10
EPC contractor Martifer Solar, the Romanian subsidiary of Martifer SGPS has completed the construction of two photovoltaic plants – one with an installed capacity of 2.03MW located in Halchiu, Brasov County and other of 3.38MW in Magurele, near Bucharest. The project was developed for Eurowind Energy A/S, Martifer being responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of the two PV plants....more »
December 05, 2013 15:47
GarantiBank provided a refinancing of 10 million euro to Tinmar, one of the largest private electricity traders in Romania. The amount is for a photovoltaic plant having an installed capacity of 10MW located in Bucsani, Giurgiu County, which is part of an 18.5MW solar park inaugurated this summer. This loan does not cover but 70% of the whole investment worth 15 million euro, being granted for an almost ten-year period, according to a press release from the bank....more »
December 05, 2013 12:26
Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) adjusted the composition of its indices and rebalanced them after the Index Committee meeting past Tuesday, December 3. Following the adjustment, the shares of both Romgaz (symbol SNG) and Nuclearelectrica (symbol SNN) were included in BET, BET-XT, BET-BK and, consequently, in BET-NG and BET-C indices....more »
December 04, 2013 15:09
Hidroelectrica’s recently appointed Supervisory Board had its first meeting on December 3, 2013, George Cristodorescu being elected as president. Cristodorescu is E.ON Romania former Deputy Director – he held this position until September, this year – a German citizen with a bachelor’s degree in economics – business administration at Worms University in Germany....more »
December 04, 2013 12:51
China and Central-East Europe Economic Forum, George Enescu Festival, UEFA Europe League 2012 Final or even the recent football game between Romania and Greece do not seem to have very much in common. Yet, the Bucharest’s hospitality industry surely has a distinct point of view – these events are highly important income sources for the industry. Unfortunately, they are also isolated, remaining occasional, but very welcome revenue resources moreover since the profit from the leisure tourism segment is almost non-existent for some of those in this branch....more »
December 04, 2013 10:11
Romania improves its performance in 2013, increasing to five the number of companies listed in the Deloitte Technology FAST 500 EMEA 2013 ranking, compared with the previous two years when there were four companies ranked: Vola.ro (ranked 17), TeamNet International (217), Crys Computers (333), SmartTel (487) and Fortech (491). ...more »
December 02, 2013 14:53
Despite an increase close to 60% of the average price of agricultural land over the past two years, Romania is still low-priced compared with most of the European countries. According to Mediafax, a report released by DTZ Echinox indicates an average price of 3.100 euro/ha, a price that is 2 up to 8 times lower than in other states across Europe....more »
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