02.27.2014

The affiliation of a leasing company to a major bank does not guarantee a strong position on the market, especially when bad debt affects the leasing portfolio, as well. more

02.24.2014

Lending market shrank by almost 5% in 2013, but Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), UniCredit, Raiffeisen and ING continued to boost portfolios, while the leaders of the banking system, BCR and BRD (BRD.RO), more

12.10.2013

The top three leasing companies in January-September were UniCredit Leasing, Impuls Leasing and Porsche Leasing, whose funding volume stood at almost EUR300 million, according to market sources. The more

12.09.2013

Bankers have been demoted from among the top earners in the Romanian economy in 2012, after they had dominated the ranking of salary earnings during the years of economic growth. more

12.02.2013

Bacau-based poultry meat producer and processor Agricola International is ranked as the best employer in Romania in 2013 with over 1,000 employees locally, according to this year’s edition of the more

10.25.2013

Romanian Internet airline ticket retailer Vola.ro has placed first in Deloitte's 2013 Technology Fast 50 ranking in Central Europe for the third consecutive year, after its revenues rose more than more

09.24.2013

Romania ranks 42nd worldwide and last in the European Union by its population’s net financial assets, with an average of EUR2,327 per capita, according to a report released Tuesday by German more

09.06.2013

The top-three leasing companies affiliated to banks in the first half of the year were, in this order, UniCredit Leasing, VB Leasing and Raiffeisen Leasing, according to market sources. more

07.19.2013

Investors in bond funds have had the most to gain in the past three years. By taking low risks, bond funds have earned an average yield of almost 23%, above the bank interest rate and above stock more

07.18.2013

Romania ranks 28th among countries with the largest furniture production, shows the World Furniture Outlook research conducted by CSIL, an independent institute from Italy, which analyzes the more

07.16.2013

The top performers among malls by revenue per square meter are Baneasa Shopping City, AFI Palace Cotroceni, Iulius Cluj, Bucuresti Mall, City Park Constanta and the Orhideea complex, whose revenue more

07.02.2013

The banks’ ranking did not see surprising moves last year, with most banks managing to keep their market share on a lethargic lending market. Few banks managed to stand out and sell more loans than more

07.02.2013

With 20% of Romania’s drug production set to go away, it remains to be seen who will vie for the second place in the ranking of local pharmaceutical producers, since second-ranked Europharm will more

06.26.2013

The 50 largest employers in the economy had a total of over 350,000 employees last year, i.e. 8% of the total number of employees in the economy, shows data centralized by ZF based on information more

06.13.2013

The top five Romanian-held construction companies reported an overall turnover of EUR600 million in 2012, which is equivalent to around 6% of the value of the Romanian construction market. more

06.06.2013

Six of the nine largest general insurers reported higher gross written premiums in the first quarter of the year, while the other three recorded double-digit business declines. more

05.21.2013

Almost 165,000 employees work in the top ten companies by number of employees and the employee trend in the last two years reflects a dramatic situation, which is true of the overall labor market: more

04.25.2013

UniCredit Tiriac Leasing, which is affiliated to UniCredit Tiriac Bank, last year kept its position as unchallenged leader of the market, with an over 20% share of new financing in 2012. No. 2 was more

04.16.2013

Romania alongside Greece and Ireland, two countries that allocated billions of euros to save their banks, are the European countries with the highest rates of non-performing loans (NPLs). more

02.26.2013

Only seven Romanian private companies are market leaders in the ranking by counties, while most of the no. 1 companies in the 42 Romanian counties are multinationals, shows a ZF analysis based on more

10.17.2012

A breakdown by sectors of the most profitable 300 companies in Romania in 2011 reveals that real estate is not a business that goes smoothly for all investors, while energy, industry and construction more

10.01.2012

The 300 most profitable companies in Romania last year had a cumulated profit of 25 billion lei (EUR5.86 billion), i.e. almost 40% of the total profit recorded by all companies in Romania – RON64 more

09.05.2012

OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), the largest company on the Romanian market, lost two positions in the ranking of the top 500 companies in Central and Eastern Europe, shows research conducted by consultancy firm more

08.27.2012

The highest-paid executive in Romania last year was, surprisingly, a manager in the real estate sector, who is likely to have concluded several major transactions and earned EUR1.27 million, more

08.17.2012

Romanian insurer Omniasig, former BCR Asigurari, posted underwritten premiums of 548.9 million lei (EUR112.5 million) in the first half of 2012, down 17.4% on the year, ranking first on the local more