Farmaceutica Remedia, a major player on Romania’s pharma market, generated RON472.8 million revenues, up over 7% from the previous year, with the drug distribution unit as the main business driver.
Laurentiu Ciocirlan, managing partner of investment fund EquiLiant Capital created by Paval brothers, the owners of Dedeman, Romania’s most powerful entrepreneurial business, states the fund wants to reach a number of six-seven companies in its investment portfolio.
Belgium’s logistic developer WDP is building a warehouse in Timisoara for an Austrian company that has recently arrived in Romania, Bulung, in line with the group’s latest report.
Lithuania’s Apex Alliance group, controlled by several Lithuanian entrepreneurs, owning five hotels in Romania, posted 20-25% higher turnover in February and March along the entire chain from the same period of last year, according to the company’s officials.
ROCA Investments reached a valuation of RON247.5 million (over EUR50 million) this year, more than double the value in 2018, RON102 million.
This year’s leader in the ranking of most valuable Romanian brands is eMAG, valued at EUR1.02 billion, an increase of 29%. It beat Dacia for the first time, which dropped 28% to EUR815 million, shows the latest report of Brand Finance, a global independent brand valuation and strategy firm.
UiPath, the most valuable startup to come from Romania, which has been on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a year, on Wednesday afternoon announced the appointment of Robert Enslin as co-CEO starting May 16.
Romania’s general consolidated budget increased by 7% to RON15.7 billion in the first three months of 2022 compared with the year-ago period, the Finance Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, rose to 4.79% a year on Wednesday (April 27) from 4.76% on Tuesday (April 26), central bank data show.
Private lending in March expanded by 15.7% from the year-earlier period, to RON336.1 billion, after local currency lending increased by 20% and foreign currency lending by 5.6% when expressed in lei, central bank data showed on Wednesday.