04.06.2017

Only 28 of the 50 largest entrepreneurial companies in 2009, the year the crisis hit Romania’s economy, are still standing, and the other 22 are either insolvent, bankrupt or deregistered. This is more

11.17.2016

The ten largest entrepreneurial companies registered in Bucharest posted 11.7 billion lei (EUR2.58 billion) revenue and had more than 20,000 employees last year. more

10.26.2016

The top ten Romanian-held employers have 50,000 employees, half as many as the top ten foreign-held employers. more

10.20.2016

The 100 largest companies held by Romanian entrepreneurs posted 61 billion lei (EUR14 billion) revenue last year, while the 100 multinationals operating in the country posted RON277 billion revenue. more

07.05.2016

The biggest 100 SRL-D companies (businesses started by young entrepreneurs) ended 2015 with more than 180 million lei (EUR40 million) revenue, RON12 million profit and 730 employees, ZF has found from more

06.07.2016

The ten largest entrepreneurial companies in Romania posted EUR5 billion revenue compared with EUR22 billion revenue of the ten leading multinationals, reveals a ZF analysis based on the data in the more

05.17.2016

The most powerful entrepreneurs in Romania’s energy sector expect growth in 2016, and most of them plan to expand on the markets they built their businesses on and diversify their operations. more

04.26.2016

Some of the most important entrepreneurs in Romania – Raul Ciurtin (Albalact), George Copos (Ana Imep) and Ioan Istrate (Alpin 57Lux) in the first four months of this year decided to sell the more

04.08.2016

Romania does not have an industry support and development program as do Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, says Valer Blidar, the owner of rolling stock manufacturer Astra Vagoane Calatori in Arad more

03.21.2016

Private equity firm Enterprise Investors says it has an about EUR100 million acquisition budget earmarked for Central and Eastern Europe including Romania and the entrepreneurial businesses are the more

03.11.2016

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11.26.2015

Local entrepreneurs have turned their attention to Africa in the past few years, an area whose economy is underdeveloped but is home to more than one billion people. more

10.05.2015

The first private sector managers after the fall of communism in Romania are establishing their own businesses after having run multinationals starting out in Romania for ten or twenty years. more

09.18.2015

Foreign owned companies in Romania posted merely 2.5 billion lei (EUR565 million) net profit (calculated by deducting net losses from net profit posted) in 2008-2014. Romanian entrepreneur-owned more

09.09.2015

Only 40 of the 100 largest entrepreneurial businesses in Romania have a debt ratio above their sector average, ZF has calculated based on Trade Registry and Finance Ministry data. more

08.11.2015

The average debt ratio of the about 650,000 companies in Romania is 71%, almost double the average of the 100 largest companies by revenue, out of which 75 multinationals. more

07.31.2015

Dedeman Bacau (do-it-yourself retail), Tinmar-Ind (energy) and RCS&RDS (telecom) are the three largest entrepreneur-owned companies in Romania by 2014 results. more

07.07.2015

The ten largest SRL-D companies (businesses started by young entrepreneurs) in Romania posted more than 43 million lei (almost EUR10 million) revenue last year. more

06.11.2015

The Romanian entrepreneurial class has learned its lesson from the crisis, and businesspeople have become wiser than they were in 2007-2008, so they are now approaching development or internal more

05.01.2015

Those who decide to start a business in Romania now have a much greater opportunity than their predecessors a decade ago, said the entrepreneurs at the ZF event dedicated to small and medium-sized more

04.17.2015

Banks need to be more flexible with the small entrepreneurs and make loans cheaper, because they are two or three times more expensive than in other European countries Romania is in direct competition more

03.03.2015

More than 11,000 women started their own business last year, bringing the number of female shareholders in Romanian companies to almost 420,000, according to a ZF analysis based on Trade Registry more

03.02.2015

The most powerful entrepreneurial businesses in the medical service industry in Romania, MedLife and Sanador, were established by female physicians. The two currently generate EUR120 million revenue more

02.13.2015

The IT industry is witnessing ‘formidable’ growth in Romania and one thing that shows it is that the centers dedicated to supporting technology startups are packed, which is a radical change from more

02.02.2015

The small entrepreneurs in the manufacturing, retail or hotel, restaurant and catering industry are trying to develop through partnerships with other small businesses, to protect themselves from the more