18 apr 2013

Romania’s major winemakers are expecting sales growth of up to 10% around the Orthodox Easter, compared with the same time in 2012, which should see the market rebound after a first quarter decline. more

9 apr 2013

The wood industry, where the most important competitors are Austrian-held will have a good 2013 judging from the budgets of the main players. more

9 apr 2013

The priority of the new owner of pharmaceutical producer Labormed, Alvogen, is to make the company less reliant on the Romanian market, says Laurentiu Scheusan, Alvogen’s executive vice president of more

4 apr 2013

Analysts believe the Romanian economy will remain on the rise in the first quarter of this year and keep their estimates for 2013 gross domestic product, but signals from the economy are less more

4 apr 2013

Businessman Cristian Preotu, who together with his wife owns the Comtesse du Barry stores (specializing on the premium wine and cuisine) and La Boucherie Francaise (luxury butchery), opened the first more

29 mar 2013

Romanian furniture manufacturers exported furniture of almost EUR700 million to the country’s top three export destinations last year, but all three markets recorded declines, shows data of the more

27 mar 2013

Retailer Carrefour, which has a network of 111 hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores in Romania will drop its private label No 1 and replace it with another one of its own. more

27 mar 2013

Local furniture industry is bracing itself for a new year of decline, the fifth in a row since 2009, when it started. The main players say they will have a difficult year on the Romanian market, set more

21 mar 2013

Beer sales went up 24% this January, compared with the year-ago period, to 741,000 hectoliters, according to ZF’s calculations based on National Statistics Institute data. more

21 mar 2013

Pharmaceutical companies are using employee leasing services more and more often to boost sales force, creating a market that might grow by 30% this year. more

14 mar 2013

Turkey’s Acibadem group, which operates 16 general hospitals and 11 outpatient clinics, will open a representative office in Romania this spring, being the first Turkish group to make such a move. more

12 mar 2013

Austrian businessman Gerald Schweighofer, who owns several wood processing and wood panel plants in Romania, says local plants reached a turnover of half a billion euros in 2012, but will never reach more

8 mar 2013

The National Wood Institute, held by AVAS, the authority in charge of privatizing state assets, has been largely liquidated, while a significant part of the land that used to accommodate the more

4 mar 2013

Furniture and home accessories retailer kika, whose only store in Romania is located in Bucharest, saw sales up 3% last year, according to the estimates of its country manager Lars Lund. more

1 mar 2013

Dragos Dinu, recently appointed chief executive of electronics, home appliances and computer retailer Domo, said his goal is to optimize the business this year. more

27 feb 2013

Heineken and Ursus, the two largest local brewers, are getting ready to make new investments in manufacturing, the first carried through since the onset of the crisis. more

21 feb 2013

Office furniture importer Corporate Office Solutions expects sales to reach EUR15 million this year, up 27% on the EUR11.8 million of 2012. more

13 feb 2013

Drug producer Laropharm, a small player in the local pharmaceutical industry, saw its revenue rise by an annual 30% on the average in 2009-2011, while 2012 growth reached 7%, according to one of its more

12 feb 2013

Murfatlar, the largest player in the Romanian wine industry, which went insolvent last year to reorganize the business, plans to keep its turnover at the same level as in 2012 and boost sales on the more

5 feb 2013

Jidvei, one of the largest wine producers in Romania, is focusing on the premium and superpremium wine segment, which local players are only now starting to tap into. more

29 ian 2013

Medicover, one of the largest operators in the private medical service business expects revenue for its hospital in Bucharest to “at least” double this year compared with 11.7 million (EUR2.6 more

23 ian 2013

Belladonna retail pharmacy network, held by two Romanian entrepreneurs, set out to open further 17 units in Bucharest in 2013, to a total of 100 pharmacies. more

15 ian 2013

With state-run hospitals losing patients, doctors and nurses to the private sector, the health minister has decided to suspend state financing to the private sector. But in the absence of competition, more

26 dec 2012

Romanian state-run drug producer Antibiotice Iasi (ATB.RO) is aiming for EUR124 million sales by 2016, an increase of 77% from the almost EUR70 million expected this year. more

25 dec 2012

Over 50 transactions were sealed in 2012 worth over EUR1.3 billion, according to a ZF analysis based on data announced by companies and on ZF estimates. more