03.20.2014

Logistics-related costs trigger a 15% higher shelf price, given that the local infrastructure is inefficient and Constanta harbor is unattractive for international players, Dragos Geletu, KLG Romania more

03.20.2014

Nicolae Havrilet, head of the country’s energy watchdog ANRE said Thursday that natural gas price will hike by 2% for household consumers and by 5% for industrial consumers on the regulated market, more

03.20.2014

The biggest electricity consumers in Romania, aluminum smelter Alro Slatina and steel plant ArcelorMittal Galati, will have to spend 177 million lei (EUR39 million) to comply with the green power more

03.17.2014

The Romanian industry will get a double blow on April 1 with the introduction of the additional EUR0.07 excise duty per liter of fuel devised by Ponta Government to boost budget revenue and the rise more

03.10.2014

Cigarette prices in Romania are estimated to increase by RON0.3-0.5 per pack as of April 1, as the total excise duty rises from EUR81.78/1,000 cigarettes to EUR84.37 and the excise on fuel will be more

03.05.2014

The average apartment prices in the five main Romanian cities rose in February by 1.8% on the month to EUR919/sqm, increasing for the second month in a row, according to imobiliare.ro website. more

02.27.2014

Romania’s largest industrial companies say there is no use for the country to have natural gas resources if they cannot be used for competitive production. more

02.05.2014

Rising imports of pork from Hungary, which lowered its sales tax on pork from 27% to 5% starting January 1, 2014, might trigger lower pork prices in Romania in upcoming months, Ioan Ladosi, head of more

02.05.2014

The price of the main 15 foods in the market basket used for the ZF index has dropped 2% since last fall, as a result of the increasingly fierce competition among retailers trying to get new customers more

01.28.2014

The starting price for each of the five digital television licenses Romania's telecom regulator ANCOM will award by auction has been set at EUR300,000, the regulator said Tuesday. more

01.15.2014

The price of electricity at the end-user rose by over 36% between 2007 and 2013, mostly due to the green power subventions paid by end-users and the increase of distribution costs, according to the more

11.29.2013

Average farmland prices in Romania have increased about 60% over the past two years to EUR3,100 per hectare, but are still two to eight times lower than in most European Union states, according to a more

11.15.2013

Cement price dropped 3.2% in 2008-2013 and producers are now selling it for 430 lei (EUR96) per ton on average, according to a ZF analysis based on market and National Statistics Institute data. more

11.14.2013

Corporate energy consumers say their energy bills have fallen by around 5% to 10% since the beginning of the year, while the price of energy traded through bilateral contracts on energy exchange OPCOM more

11.07.2013

Cold cuts were 38.3% more expensive in Romania in 2012 compared with the previous year, the highest basic foodstuff price increase seen last year, according to a report by the country’s Competition more

11.07.2013

Romania and its foreign creditors have reached an agreement in principle to defer by one year the country’s deregulation calendar of natural gas prices for industrial consumers, minister-delegate more

11.07.2013

Household electricity bills will increase by 1% as of January 1, 2014, while electricity prices for industrial consumers will rise by 2%, minister-delegate for energy Constantin Nita said Thursday. more

10.31.2013

Subway pass prices will increase 25%-33%, according to a bill published by the Transport Ministry. more

10.31.2013

The price of electricity traded on the spot market of the OPCOM energy exchange in the first nine months reached an average of some EUR34/MWh, a 30% decline on the year-ago period. more

10.23.2013

Independent gas stations hold 10% of Romania’s gasoline and diesel oil market, estimated by ZF at $5.5 billion (EUR4.5 billion) last year. more

10.03.2013

Romania has lost about 10% of its fuel demand in five years of crisis (2008-2012), one of the most serious declines in Europe out of nine members countries analyzed by ZF based on Euromonitor, CBRE more

09.20.2013

The price of the ten main food products in the consumer basket went up by 24% during the five years of crisis, with the biggest rises being recorded for pasta (over 50%), chicken (48%) and sugar more

09.10.2013

Most analysts estimate the Nuclearelectrica offering will close at a price near the minimum of the subscription interval (11.2-15 lei per share), but analysts’ estimates differ as to the evolution more

08.22.2013

Romania’s antitrust authority said Thursday it carried out checkups at ten grain traders in an investigation concerning possible anti-competitive practices. more

07.30.2013

Raising excise duties on alcohol will increase alcoholic drink prices by 25% to 40% and tax evasion will skyrocket to 90% from about 70% currently, according to Romulus Dascalu, president of GARANT, more