08.14.2015

The major energy markets, fuel and electricity, showed signs of rebound in the first half after years of decline. Gas consumption, on the other hand, did not, given the hard times the local chemical more

08.05.2015

Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP), the offshore drilling company of Constanta businessman Gabriel Comanescu, expects revenue to drop by more than 20% this year mainly because of the abrupt decline in oil more

07.14.2015

Ford Romania, the second most important carmaker in Romania, posted EUR912 million revenue last year, down 17% on 2013, according to Finance Ministry data. more

07.07.2015

Local insurance companies posted 36 million lei (EUR8 million) aggregate loss in 2014, down from the more than RON1.3 billion in 2013. more

07.06.2015

Swedish home appliances manufacturer Electrolux, one of the six international giants in this sector that has plants in Romania, saw revenue drop to less than EUR100 million on this market in 2014, more

07.03.2015

Romania's production of steel, rolled products and pipes dropped from 17.6 million tons after 1990 to 7.1 million tons last year. The number of employees in the steel industry went from 143,000 to more

07.02.2015

Builders Spedition UMB and Tehnostrade, of Bacau-based businessman Dorinel Umbrarescu, ended 2014 with 529 million lei (EUR118 million) revenue, 35% lower than in 2013. more

06.18.2015

The decline in sales per store, the opening of smaller stores, the technological progress and the increase in the number of temporary employees caused the headcount in modern retail stores to halve in more

06.14.2015

Romanian state-owned railway freight carrier CFR Marfa saw a 14% decline in turnover in the first three months of 2015, to RON182 million (EUR41 million), from RON213 million in the same period in more

06.04.2015

The cars made in Romania by Dacia and Ford saw sales go down or dropped in the ranking of their respective segments in Europe in the first quarter, as none of the two carmakers has launched any new more

05.13.2015

Steel plant ArcelorMittal Galati posted 3.59 billion lei (EUR805 million) revenue last year, 3.2% lower than in 2013 and RON480 million loss. The plant’s business was hurt by the drop in steel more

05.04.2015

Back in 2008, aluminum smelter Alro Slatina (ALR.RO), Romania’s largest electricity consumer, accounted for 7% of the country’s consumption. Last year, it accounted for only 5.7%, following a 25% more

04.30.2015

German-held Metro Cash&Carry, the trailblazer of modern retail in Romania, ended last year with EUR906 million in sales, the lowest in a decade, despite expanding the network from 23 to 32 stores. more

02.23.2015

Beer sales shrank by 5% to 16 million hectoliters (1.6 billion liters or 3.2 billion 0.5 liter beer cans) last year, the worst decline the market has seen since 2009, ZF has calculated based on more

02.17.2015

Romania’s official spirits market in 2014 contracted by 20% by volume and 5% by value on the hiked alcohol excise that pushed prices higher and drove consumption to the unfiscalized market, reveal more

02.02.2015

The consumer lending growth that had restarted last summer stopped at the end of the year again, so new sales in November and December did not offset loan repayment and written off non-performing more

01.19.2015

Romania's economy is faced with the decline of one of its most important resources, as the number of children went down by 3 million in 1990-2013, according to the government's child protection more

01.19.2015

Romania's construction industry, which has contracted by around 45% since the beginning of the crisis, lost around 109,000 employees between 2008-2014, namely almost one quarter of the entire more

01.08.2015

Interests on leu loans have gone down with each monetary policy easing step of Romania's central bank so they are now competing with the cost of foreign currency loans. The adjustment trend will more

12.18.2014

Ursus Breweries, the largest local brewer, posted 708 million lei (EUR158 million) sales in the first half of this year, 4% lower than in the year-earlier period, according to publicly available data. more

11.19.2014

Beer sales in Romania fell 7% in the first nine months of 2014, continuing the downward trend of 2013 and of the first half of the year, due to unfavorable weather. Not even the soccer World Cup was more

10.22.2014

The volume of transactions on the Bucharest forex market dropped 7% in the first nine months to EUR284 billion or a daily average of EUR1.5 billion, as a result of the lack of foreign currency in the more

08.06.2014

Metro Cash&Carry Romania, which operates 26 Metro stores and six Metro Punct stores, ended last year with EUR1.07 billion revenue, down more than 5% on 2012 and almost 40% lower than in 2007, its best more

07.29.2014

Ahead of the summer months, beer sales in Romania fell 20% in May, when they should have normally started to pick up, being the worst decline since May 2005. more

07.25.2014

Dacia and Ford assembled 210,519 cars in the first half, 6% fewer than in the year-ago period, according to the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association (APIA). more