02.13.2015

The Borsec brand of Romanian-held Romaqua Group is close to beating Coca-Cola on the market of soft drinks and bottled mineral water, ZF has found from market research company Canadean data. more

01.06.2015

Raiffeisen Bank in 2014 became the most dynamic brokerage on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, toppling the leader of the previous three years, Swiss Capital. Stock transfers handled by Raiffeisen reached more

10.22.2014

The appetite of Egyptians for the wheat or of Saudis for the barley harvested in Romania makes the country’s grain exports a thorn in the side of the European grain export leaders France and more

09.29.2014

Four local insurance companies got to hold a position among the region’s biggest 50 insurers by 2013 underwritings, but only one managed to climb one spot against the previous year, according to a more

09.24.2014

Back in 2008, Romania's economy had only one company, OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), with revenue above ten billion lei (more than EUR2 billion). Now it has four (Automobile Dacia, OMV Petrom SA, OMV Petrom more

08.28.2014

Nine of the ten largest financial leasing companies posted revenue growth by 9% to 90% in the first half, amid a surprising rebound of the market. more

08.27.2014

The top five hotel companies in Brasov County, the second most important destination in Romania after Bucharest by number of tourists, posted only 74 million lei (EUR17 million) revenue last year, more

08.22.2014

The five most important hotels in Mamaia by revenue of the companies that operate them posted 55 million lei (EUR12.4 million) revenue last year, an increase of 6% on 2012. more

08.11.2014

Sales of pharmaceutical drugs returned to growth in the second quarter of the year, reaching 3 billion lei (almost EUR680 million), according to market research company Cegedim Romania. more

07.29.2014

Bunge (vegetable oil), Agrana (sugar), Expur (vegetable oil), Smithfield (meat) and Prutul (vegetable oil) are the top companies among the largest 50 food industry manufacturers in Romania, a group more

07.11.2014

The 20 largest office space rental deals in Bucharest in the first half of the year were signed for about 74,000 square meters, or 3.5% of the 2.1 million square meter stock in the city, according to more

07.09.2014

An encouraging sign at the top of the bank ranking by assets: BCR, the largest lender in Romania, stopped losing market share and even grew slightly in the first five months of the year from a 17.5% more

07.07.2014

The 20 largest companies in the construction materials business ended 2013 with EUR1.2 billion revenue, an increase of 4% on 2012. Only five Romanian entrepreneurs made it into the top 20, while the more

07.01.2014

Insurance companies ended last year with a loss about 450 million lei (EUR100 million), 40% higher than in 2012. This is the eighth year in the red for the Romanian insurance industry, according to more

07.01.2014

The 30 largest private clinic and hospital operators in Romania posted EUR380 million revenue together last year, an increase of 20% on the 2012 level, according to a ZF analysis based on Trade more

06.25.2014

The 20 largest employers in Romania laid off almost 5,000 people last year. Those whose number of employees increased are retailers Kaufland, Dedeman and Mega Image and telecom operator RCS&RDS. more

06.19.2014

Dedeman Bacau, the do-it-yourself retail business of Bacau brothers Adrian and Dragos Paval, became the 2013 leader of the companies created by Romanian entrepreneurs, with 2,679 million lei (EUR608 more

06.16.2014

The highest loss posted by a company in Romania last year stood at EUR220 million and was reported by Oltchim. Financial institutions posted five of the ten highest losses in 2013. more

06.13.2014

The top ten dairy companies in Romania had revenues of EUR580 million last year, an increase of 8% from 2012, but most of them did not have profit margins beyond 5%, reveals a ZF analysis of the data more

06.11.2014

OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which lost its position as largest company in Romania to Automobile Dacia in 2013, remained the most profitable company in the country, having posted a record profit of more than more

05.26.2014

The 20 largest companies in the Romanian economy account for 12% of the revenue of all the companies in the country, some EUR250 billion a year, and most of those 20 operate in the energy sector. more

05.22.2014

Ten shopping centers in Bucharest and in the rest of the country posted some EUR190 million revenue together last year, while the sales of their tenants can be put at EUR1.4 billion. more

05.09.2014

As the European Union celebrates Europe Day this Friday, ZF has identified a number of indicators showing where Romania stands compared with the other European Union members. more

03.05.2014

The record car production in Mioveni and Craiova put Romania on the eighth place among car manufacturing countries in Europe in 2013, ahead of two Western countries, Italy and Belgium, for the first more

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