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The war in Ukraine has caused entrepreneurs in major industries to reduce production and sales forecasts for the next two years, according to international rating agency Standard&Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings.
The US dollar hit a new record high against the Romanian currency on Monday (Sept 26), as the central bank’s average reference rate stood at 5.1135 lei to the dollar.
ROCA Industry, the construction material holding company of ROCA Investments, continues to expand its portfolio along with the completion of the transaction set off in April 2022 whereby it fully acquired wire product manufacturer Dial based in the locality of Harsova (Constanta County).
Connections Consult (CC.RO), a Romanian company specialized in providing software and IT services, said in a stock market report that it ended the first half of 2022 with operating income of RON25.2 million, up 21% from RON20.8 million reported in the same interval of 2021.
PepsiCo, one of the leading global food and beverage companies, on Monday announced a $100 million investment in three new operational production lines and a new automated warehouse, automation capabilities, and a new masterplan at its factory in Popeşti-Leordeni factory, near capital city Bucharest.
DN Agrar, a Dutch-held group of firms operating in the fields of animal husbandry, farm production, farming services, logistics, transportation, tourism and advisory services, registered turnover worth RON62.4 million in the first half of 2022, up 241.4% from the year-earlier period.
German-held building company Geiger Transilvania in 2021 generated net profit of RON18 million (EUR3.7 million), double the 2020 level.
INVL Renewable Energy Fund I, managed by Lithuania’s INVL Asset Management, has bought another 6 solar power projects in Romania, with a capacity of around 103 MW, thus holding around 269 MW in solar parks locally.
Cement producer Romcim, part of Ireland’s CRH, registered solid results in East-European countries in the first six months of this year, with Romania and Poland in particular boasting high sales.
ArcelorMittal Hunedoara (SIDG.RO), the steel mill owned by ArcelorMittal group, recorded a loss of RON42.7 million in the first half, up from the RON19.3 million in the same period of 2021, the half-year report published on the Bucharest Stock Exchange shows.
Private lending in Romania grew by 15.9% in August 2022 compared with August 2021 to RON359 billion, as local currency lending increased by 16.8% and foreign currency lending expressed in lei by 13.8%, central bank data showed on Friday.
The authorities in Bucharest expect the largest sale of radio frequency spectrum since 2012, the so-called 5G auction to be held this fall, to start from an about EUR450 million price, as the potential slide into recession, the rising inflation, and especially power prices are dulling the appetite of telecom giants to buy the entire amount of licenses offered, whose starting price is EUR693 milion
Car parts producer Optibelt Power Transmission of Tautii-Magheraus, Maramures county, the local subsidiary of Germany’s Arntz Optibelt, ended the first half of this year with EUR39.45 million, up 31% from the year-earlier period.
Builder Wincon of Cluj-Napoca, owned by brothers Bogdan and Werner Irsik, is carrying out an investment to boost the production capacity at one of its plants, amid the upward trend of the logistics and industrial space market.
Maviprod-IRUM group of firms, owned by Oltean family of Reghin, in the first half of this year generated turnover worth above EUR30.5 million, up almost 40% from the year-earlier period, and expects total EUR65 million turnover in 2022.
Footwear retailer Benvenuti, controlled by local entrepreneur Dan Pavel, in the first half of this year reached turnover worth around RON67 million (EUR13.5 million), up 37% from the year-earlier period, in line with ZF calculations based on company data.
In 2021, the number of four-star units stood at 394, in line with National Statistics Board data. The considerable increase is mainly due to investors’ rising appetite for this field.
At 12:41 p.m. on Thursday, a DEALS transaction was registered in the Bucharest Stock Exchange system with a total of 13.1 million Evergent Investments (EVER) shares worth RON16.1 million.
Online fashion retailer DY Fashion expects to end 2022 with a turnover of EUR5 million, up almost 20% versus EUR4.2 million in 2021.
Romania's finance ministry raised RON216 million on Thursday (Sept 22), below the targeted level of RON400 million, selling bonds maturing in June 2026, at an annual average yield of 8.3%.19080 items