7 apr 2014

Farmland in Romania has risen in price by 25 times in 2002-2012 to an average level of EUR4,600/hectare, close to the price in France, Poland and Brazil, but higher than in Hungary and Australia, more

4 apr 2014

Austrian investor Alfred Beck, a stakeholder in real estate group S+B Gruppe, has come to farming holdings he values at EUR10 million through a vineyard in Mures county and 650 hectares of farmland in more

12 mar 2014

CrisTim group, a top ten cold cuts processor in Romania, controlled by businessman Radu Timis, budgeted a 10% sales increase to EUR70 million this year. more

5 mar 2014

Vegetable oil producer Expur, the domestic subsidiary of Sofiproteol, France’s largest agribusiness group, reached EUR254 million in revenue in 2013, up 14% from 2012. more

5 mar 2014

Pork processor Smithfield and poultry processors Avicola Buzau (Aaylex Prod) and Avicola Crevedia (Agroli group) were in 2013 the top three exporters of unprocessed meat in Romania, according to a ZF more

3 mar 2014

The Romanian division of Swiss-held trader Ameropa, one of the top three grain traders on the local market, collected $98.7 million between July 2013 and February 2014 from wheat orders placed by more

28 feb 2014

COFCO Corporation, China’s biggest agricultural raw material trader, a state-owned company, acquired 51% in stock of Dutch group Nidera, a company with a strong position in Romania's assets. more

27 feb 2014

Best Foods, a producer of corn-puff snacks, popcorn and potato chips owned by Greek businessman Epameinondas Ochonos, acquired an 8,000-sqm land plot on Timisoara Boulevard of Bucharest for around more

25 feb 2014

Italian investors control farms operating lands with an overall area of around 220,000 hectares in Romania, namely a quarter of the total area held by foreign players in the agricultural field. more

21 feb 2014

Nikos Chlepas, a Greek investor who was involved in the Neoset furniture business five years ago, as well as in several real estate projects, last year switched to snail farming with a 10-hectare more

17 feb 2014

Last year’s gross domestic product growth of 3.5% was helped by the 10% rise in exports, which was fueled by Ford, with an estimated increase of EUR1.5 billion on 2012, and the grain traders, which more

16 feb 2014

Romania’s cold cut exports have registered a nine-fold increase in the past decade, shows a ZF survey based on data provided by the country’s statistics institute INS and European Union’s more

11 feb 2014

Smithfield, a major global player on the pork market, in the first ten months of last year was the biggest meat exporter in Romania and entirely covered the pork export segment, with deliveries of 29 more

10 feb 2014

Avicola Crevedia, part of Agroli group controlled by Lebanese investor Rami Ghaziri, went insolvent at the request of the Arges-Vedea branch of Romania’s water administrator Apele Romane. more

3 feb 2014

The fifty largest sheep farmers in Romania own 163,000 head together or 1.8% of the total in the country. Translated into cash this means EUR16.5 million worth of sheep, according to ZF’s more

30 ian 2014

Convenience Prod, a company held by Austrian group Gierlinger Holding, is the largest exporter of convenience meat products in Romania, export data for January-October 2013 provided by the National more

29 ian 2014

Danish investor Erik Jantzen, owner and chief executive officer of farmland trader Jantzen Development, which also operates in Slovakia and is little known to the general public in Romania, has been more

10 ian 2014

The farming sector contributed EUR18.5 billion to Romania’s economy last year, an all-time high and 28% more than in 2012, according to the latest Eurostat data. more

9 ian 2014

Mihai Anghel, owner of agribusiness group Cerealcom, says he wants it to become the first Romanian producer to compete with international traders on equal footing in international grain tenders. more

6 ian 2014

U.S.-held companies Alfred Toepfer, Bunge, and Cargill last week won a tender to supply 180,000 tons of Romanian wheat worth $56.8 million to Egypt. more

31 dec 2013

2013 was a roller-coaster ride for companies in the Romanian agri-business sector. more

25 dec 2013

Foreign investors in Romania's agricultural sector focused on grain and technical crops, livestock farming and food processing this year. more

16 dec 2013

The year 2013 gave farmers who bet on grain and oilseeds an almost 22 million ton harvest and 50% better results than the modest 2012. more

12 dec 2013

British investment fund Insight Investment, which manages assets of 271.9 billion pounds worldwide, has bought Romanian company Agricom Borcea, which holds a 13,600-ha farm in Calarasi county, close more

5 dec 2013

Romanian sheep are in high demand and the country was the European Union’s leading exporter of sheep in the first nine months of the year. more