Romanian authorities seized over 186 million contraband cigarettes, with an estimated black-market value of RON172.8 million in the first ten of 2025, more than three times the total seizures recorded in 2024, per data aggregated on the www.stopcontrabanda.ro platform, the only real-time tracker of illegal cigarette seizures in Romania, developed by British American Tobacco (BAT).
Romania's finance ministry in November is holding an auction for discount treasury bills (T-bills), with a nominal value of RON500 million, and is reopening 13 government bond issue, with a total value of RON6.3 billion, with a view to funding the budget deficit, refinancing and paying off public debt early.
Romania's finance ministry has announced that it will carry out a new issue of Fidelis government bonds for retail investors between November 7 and 14, 2025, which is the 10th Fidelis edition in 2025 and the 30th since the relaunch of the Fidelis program in July 2020.
Maspex Romania, part of Maspex group, has announced that on November 5, 2025, it got the last necessary approvals from the competition watchdogs of Romania, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova for the authorization of the economic concentration achieved via the acquisition of Purcari stock in the public offering carried out in July 2025.
Aerostar Bacau, a supplier of aerostructures, subassemblies and hydraulic systems for global manufacturing programs, ended the January-September 2025 period with a RON70.8 million net profit, 20.4% above the year-earlier level.
Agroland Business System, the Romanian retail, agriculture and food entrepreneurial group which owns the largest network of agricultural stores in Romania, ended the first nine months of 2025 with RON299 million sales, up 13%, and RON9.5 million net profit, 65% higher against 2023.
Despite economic slowdown, the war at its borders, internal tensions and uncertainties, Romania corporate system reported overall net profit of almost RON1,000 billion (EUR200 billion) in the four post-pandemic years (2021-2024).
Drug maker Zentiva, with two plants in Bucharest, carried our RON56 million investment in 2024 (over EUR10 million) and investment plans continue. At present, the company is looking to boost production capacity and reduce environmental impacts.