3 iun 2015

Agribusiness distributor RodBun Grup, owned by Romanian entrepreneurs Alexandru Iancu and Daniel Muntean, budgeted more than 450 million lei (EUR110 million) revenue from sales of fertilizers, more

29 mai 2015

The Gupta family, one of the most powerful business dynasties in India besides Lakshmi Mittal’s, has bought two farms totaling 2,500 hectares of land in Contesti, Teleorman (southern Romania). The more

26 mai 2015

Agriculture, an almost EUR17 billion business that has the potential to double, is caught in a production and agricultural commodity trap because livestock farming is declining and the livestock more

13 mai 2015

Brise Group, of Constanta entrepreneur Marius Bucur, ended last year with EUR289 million revenue, 10% above the 2013 level and its highest ever. more

8 mai 2015

Swiss-held Ameropa, one of the largest agricultural commodities traders in Romania, ended 2014 with EUR500 million revenue, an increase of 25% year on year. more

5 mai 2015

Five counties in the south and east of Romania are the top performers in the country’s agricultural sector, forming a local version of Midwestern United States’ Corn Belt. more

27 apr 2015

Romanian farmers are one of the main interests of US’ DuPont Pioneer, now that the local market is connected to the global agricultural commodity trade and the agricultural sector has reached a more

24 apr 2015

Trans-Oil group, controlled by Georgian-born US tycoon Vaja Jhashi, budgeted $200 million investments in the Romanian agriculture sector, following its acquisition of vegetable oil plant Ultex last more

20 apr 2015

Ten farming investors in Romania acquired a total of 300 hectares of arable land in the January-March period and the first days of April in EUR1 million worth of deals, at an average paid price of more

14 apr 2015

A one-year investment in Romania’s sheep farming market means a 1,400-sheep flock, which, left to shepherds, has the capacity to bring returns as high as 37%, reveals a ZF analysis. more

10 apr 2015

Easter, the second most important time of the year for consumer spending after the Christmas season, drives up sales of the major retailers compared with the rest of the year. Romanian consumers spend more

7 apr 2015

Romanian bakery company Spicul, a name with a 160-year history in the local industry, has entered bankruptcy after four years of insolvency and now the plant of Rudeni locality, Ilfov, is put up for more

6 apr 2015

Romania’s agribusiness company Biochem, owned by Chimisliu family of Constanta, has teamed up for the use of the silo and the 44,000-ton warehouses it owns in Dragalina with US conglomerate Bunge. more

3 apr 2015

Canadian agribusiness group Agrium has appointed Ofelia Nalbant general manager of its Romanian operations. more

27 mar 2015

Danish-held FirstFarms, one of the biggest Danish investors in Romania’s agricultural production, in 2014 generated revenue of EUR5 million, up 15% on the year, but saw gross profitability dwindle more

25 mar 2015

Romanian wheat yield is estimated at 3.26 tons/hectare in March, 10% higher than forecast in the same time last year, according to the first European Commission 2015 estimate recently published. more

22 mar 2015

Germany’s largest agricultural cooperative, BayWa, has bought 90% in Patberg International, a business started from scratch by a group of former employees of grain trader Nidera in Romania. more

20 mar 2015

German group Banat Farming, run by businessman Marcel Weisehoff, holds 4,700 hectares of arable land in Romania, eight years from entering this market. The group farms 6,000 hectares of land in this more

19 mar 2015

The annual traffic in Constanta Harbor, Romania’s largest, is six million tons below the 1989 level and has yet to match the 2008 level, the peak of the past twenty-five years. The traffic volume in more

17 mar 2015

US-held food processing and commodities trading giant ADM has reached an agreement to buy the North Star Shipping and Minmetal grain terminals in Constanta Harbor from Romanian businessmen Liviu more

10 mar 2015

Trans-Oil, the business controlled by millionaire Vaja Jhashi and the biggest agri-business group in the Republic of Moldova, took the first step to erect a silo that can store 20,000 tons of oilseeds more

5 mar 2015

Businessman Marius Bucur, who owns Brise Group, one of leading players in the local agribusiness sector, has acquired control of Constanta-based Granex. Bucur already had 49% in that company and more

3 mar 2015

Grain trader Ameropa Grains of Swiss tycoon Andreas Zivy has bought two grain stores in Dor Marunt (Calarasi, southern Romania) and Macin (Tulcea, southeast Romania). more

18 feb 2015

The trend of operating profit generated by the 20 most important segments of Romania’s agricultural market points out the buoyancy of this market in the past seven years. more

16 feb 2015

The 68 agricultural cooperatives in Romania generate EUR200 million revenue a year, the lowest of the 15 biggest agricultural markets in the European Union, according to a report of the EU’s largest more