12.27.2012

Romania’s merger and acquisition market, estimated at over EUR1 billion this year, has seen transactions in almost all sectors, with the most significant in retail, real estate and the fertilizer more

12.25.2012

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

12.24.2012

Rompetrol, the second largest local oil company, says it could open about 30 new gas stations built from the ground up in 2013. It also does not rule out acquisitions. more

11.18.2012

Romania’s Health Ministry will become central unit for acquisitions for the healthcare sector and it will be the one making large long-term acquisitions of expensive medical equipment and drugs, more

04.05.2012

Over 100 bankers, lawyers, consultants and businesspeople on Wednesday attended the launch of the sixth edition of the Top Transactions yearbook, organized by Ziarul Financiar, and the debates more

04.03.2012

The deal estimated at several million euros between eJobs, the largest local online recruitment service, and Swiss-owned media group Ringier, will be followed by other mergers and acquisitions. The more

03.30.2012

OTP is still interested in buying a smaller Romanian bank, and it could resume talks to this end in the second half of the year, because Romania is a primary target for the group’s expansion, the more

03.19.2012

Romsys, one of the largest IT&C integrators on the local market, held by Austria’s New Frontier Group, is in talks to buy two IT companies in Romania, Horatiu Berdila, chief executive of Romsys, more

02.06.2012

Austrian group Kapsch, with EUR1 billion in annual turnover in IT, telecom and traffic management solutions, bought Squario IT Solutions and Focus Net Consulting – two local consulting and IT more

02.03.2012

US company MetLife, which has recently announced the acquisition of the local subsidiary of Aviva, is watching the Romanian market and does not rule out a potential acquisition of another company if more

10.11.2011

The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, which gives a measure of the financial and strategic investors’ interest in Romania, was barely alive during the first nine months of the year, when 14 more

08.19.2011

Internet, television, data and IT&C services brought Romtelecom almost EUR200 million out of total revenue of EUR744 million in 2010, but landline telephony remains the main cash generator for the more

08.12.2011

South African investment fund NEPI, which made the largest acquisitions on the Romanian real estate market between 2009 and 2010, has continued to sign deals into this year, adding the shopping more

08.05.2011

In two crisis years, Spain-held private equity firm GED, which owns Romanian travel agency Happy Tour, signed three successive deals securing the development of an integrated business on the travel more

06.30.2011

It has become cheaper for a banking group looking to consolidate its presence on the market to buy a bank rather than invest in organic growth, says Laszlo Diosi, head of OTP Bank, the domestic more

05.23.2011

A recent poll by Romanian research firm ISRA Center Marketing Research shows that only a handful of Romanians in urban areas plan to buy a home or a car within the next 12 months. more

05.13.2011

Arobs Transilvania Software, a company specializing in the development of GPS software solutions, is in advanced talks to take over some companies selling or developing GPS monitoring solutions, more