06.23.2017

Mihai Rotaru and Alexandru Dumitru, who created the Clever Taxi mobile app in 2011 enabling people in 20 cities in Romania to order more than 40 million taxi rides since 2012, have become euro more

06.05.2017

At least seven deals worth more than EUR100 million have been signed on the Romanian real estate market in the past decade, and the two records were signed ten years away. more

06.02.2017

Brothers Dragos and Adrian Paval, who own the DIY retail chain Dedeman, signed the agreement with Africa Israel to buy AFI Park 1-5 office buildings near the AFI Palace Cotroceni mall for almost more

04.14.2017

German-held TMD Friction, which arrived in Romania with a brake systems plant in Caransebes less than a decade ago, intends to expand operations in the city so it bought three plots of land totaling more

03.30.2017

The local M&A market has matured in the last few years, after having overcome the 2008 crisis, so it is high time Romanian entrepreneurs, too, pursued acquisitions to develop and withstand more

02.17.2017

Modern retail, a EUR10 billion to EUR11 billion market a year in Romania, will go through a number of new deals over the next two or three years, which means it will either see a new player arriving more

02.14.2017

Truck and bus manufacturer Roman SA Brasov has signed a contract worth EUR12 million with a company in Taiwan for manufacturing 94 civil trucks and is also in talks with another company in Pakistan. more

01.30.2017

German-held discount store chain Lidl is in talks to buy two XXL Mega Discount stores from fellow German group Rewe in Romania in a EUR5 million to EUR10 million deal, market sources say. The deal, more

01.19.2017

A number of 85 deals worth more than EUR5 million were closed last year, a report by audit and tax advisory firm Deloitte says. The mergers and acquisitions market therefore stood at EUR3.4 billion to more

01.17.2017

Ziarul Financiar has compiled a ranking of the biggest deals signed last year, analyzing 70 deals worth almost EUR3 billion for that and how the actors on the private equity market and strategic more

12.06.2016

The sale by Enterprise Investors of the supermarket chain Profi to buyout investor Mid Europa Partners for EUR533 million was the most important deal in local retail and eighth biggest in Romania’s more

10.25.2016

As the end of the year is near, the local banks are rushing to clean up their balance sheets, which shows on the non-performing loan deal market, where three or four deals to sell about EUR1 billion more

09.14.2016

The Emerson group, which has plants in Cluj-Napoca and Oradea and more than 2,400 employees in Romania, sold the Leroy-Somer and Control Tehniques divisions to Japan’s Nidec Corporation in a $1.2 more

09.12.2016

Some 1,500 hectares of farmland were sold at an average price of about EUR4,340 per hectare or a total of more than EUR8 million from January through early September, according to the data on the more

09.08.2016

The deal whereby eMag, the largest local online retailer held by South Africa’s Naspers group, will take over rival PC Garage and strengthen its leading position on its market is still under review more

07.05.2016

French-held Carrefour may use the Billa brand for the Billa Romania stores for 18 months from the date of the deal. The two parties signed the deal last December, which means only 12 months left. When more

05.23.2016

Lantmannen Unibake, held by a cooperative of 27,000 Swedish farmers, has bought the retail and bakery operations of GoodMills in Romania (the former Titan company) from Austria’s Raiffeisen group, more

04.25.2016

Polish-held real estate company Global Trade Center completed the acquisition of the Premium Plaza and Premium Point office buildings in Bucharest at the end of last week, says real estate consultant more

03.29.2016

Five sectors generated half of the 123 deals closed in Romania last year – IT, energy, real estate, services and pharmaceuticals/healthcare. more

02.17.2016

The local mergers and acquisitions market has thawed up in the last few months, after three international giants decided to spend about EUR100 million each in Romania, reveals a ZF analysis taking more

12.24.2015

BCR, the largest local bank, has sold a set of non-performing corporate loans with a face value of EUR1.2 billion to a consortium comprised of Deutsche Bank, IFC and APS. This is the largest NPL deal more

12.23.2015

Four large debt collectors, APS (Czech Republic), KRUK (Poland), Kredyt Inkaso (Poland) and EOS (Germany) reached an almost EUR6 billion non-performing loan portfolio at the end this year, which they more

12.17.2015

The transfer of the majority stake in KMG International (former Rompetrol Group) by KazMunayGas to CEFC China Energy Company Limited is a good thing, says Ion Sturza, the former deputy chief executive more

11.16.2015

Five deals involving sale of office buildings in Bucharest worth EUR180 million to EUR200 million together have been announced and closed or should be closed by the end of this year, ZF has found from more

10.16.2015

The top ten deals in the real estate sector in Romania in the first nine months amount to almost EUR300 million, or half the entire market, according to a ZF analysis based on the data supplied by more