22 feb 2013

Cluj-based lingerie and swimwear producer Jolidon, controlled by businessman Gabriel Cirlig will go to India this year where it plans to open three stores. more

7 feb 2013

Rombat Bistrita, Romania’s largest car battery manufacturer, expects the auto market to be flat in 2013 after five years of decline. more

13 dec 2012

Automotive component makers continued to hire and invest this year, a trend that started in 2011, in order to develop the business on the local market. more

12 dec 2012

US-held Emerson has recruited about 600 people for its plants in the Tetarom II industrial park in Cluj (NW Romania), where it currently employs 1,500 people. more

26 nov 2012

The three Cluj-based entrepreneurs who have since 1990 turned EnergoBit into a EUR160-million business specializing in delivering complete energy solutions have sold the majority stake to Poland’s more

8 nov 2012

Automotive component maker Preh Romania, one of the major local suppliers of Audi, BMW and Daimler, plans to hire 120 more people for its plant in Ghimbav, near Brasov (central Romania). more

23 oct 2012

Sortilemn, a furniture maker based in Gherla (NW Romania) and one of the most important local suppliers of IKEA, has completed a 30 million lei (EUR6.6 million) project to build a cogeneration power more

20 sep 2012

Construction company CON-A in Sibiu, controlled by businessman Mircea Bulboaca, has built a large part of the structure of Bosch’s future auto parts plant in Jucu, Cluj county. more

22 aug 2012

Romanian lingerie and swimwear manufacturer Jolidon expects to return to profit this year after three years of losses and see its sales go up by 15% on 2011. Sales stood at 90 million lei (EUR20 more

6 aug 2012

EnergoBit, one of the leading players on the market of energy equipment, controlled by three Romanians, will invest EUR40 million in the development of a 27-MW wind farm in Tulcea (SE Romania). more

19 iul 2012

Austrian millionaire Gerald Schweighofer, who owns an over EUR400 million wood processing business on the Romanian market, currently has 2,300 employees in this country. The company has recruited 200 more

10 iul 2012

Kastamonu Romania (the former Prolemn) in Reghin (central Romania), controlled by Kastamonu Entegre, one of the leading wood processing companies in Turkey, will complete a EUR150 million investment more

28 mai 2012

Holcim Romania, one of the largest cement producers on the local market, estimates the cement market will increase by 2% to 3%, with company officials still relying on infrastructure projects, at a more

7 mai 2012

Sortilemn Gherla, one of the biggest Romanian suppliers of Swedish-held IKEA, has started a EUR9 million project to build a coat hanger plant on a 10,000 square meter plot of land. more

13 apr 2012

Some of the largest producers of components present on the Romanian market – Continental, Autoliv, Yazaki and Schaeffler Romania – have announced new programs of boosting employee numbers in 2012, more

15 mar 2012

EnergoBit, one of the leading companies on the Romanian energy equipment market, received offers from private investors willing to get a stake in it and provide financial backing to its projects. more

9 mar 2012

German-held manufacturer Schaeffler Romania, which owns a ball bearing plant in Brasov, has budgeted production growth of about 9% for 2012, which should take its turnover towards EUR370 million, more

27 feb 2012

They started to arrive in Romania in mid 2000s, drawn by Dacia, the cheap skilled labor and the advantage of export to Western markets. They built plants from the ground up and created an industry more

23 feb 2012

EVW Holding based in Cluj (NW Romania), the importer of the DAF trucks in Romania, controlled by two entrepreneurs and Dutch EVW group posted 293 million lei (EUR67 million) sales in 2011, up 18% on more

21 feb 2012

Rondocarton, which owns corrugated cardboard plants near Romanian cities Cluj and Targoviste could become one of the suppliers of Italy’s De'Longhi SpA, which has recently announced an investment in more

15 feb 2012

German manufacturer Schaeffler Romania, which owns a ball bearing plant in Brasov, last year posted turnover of around 1.45 billion lei (EUR330 million), 12% higher than in 2010. more

2 feb 2012

Swedish automotive component maker Autoliv, which owns three plants in Romania employing 3,500 people, has bought the buildings formerly occupied by a trouser factory in Sfantu Gheorghe, Covasna more

1 feb 2012

Genpact Romania, which provides Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services continues expansion and looks to hire 400 people this year at service centers in Bucharest and Cluj. more

18 ian 2012

US Emerson group, a $21 billion global business, hired about 400 persons for its plants in the Tetarom II industrial park in Cluj-Napoca last year. It plans to continue employments in 2012 as well, so more

11 ian 2012

Macromex, the largest Romanian distributor of frozen products, is pushing with its expansion plans in Europe, and the foreign markets should contribute 30% of the 2012 turnover, according to Dan more