Romanian real estate leasing company Practic [BSE:PRBU] said on Monday it recorded a net profit of 26.9 million lei ($5.8 million/5.4 million euro) in 2023, down from 37.8 million lei in the previous year. Practic's net turnover increased to 42.3 million lei last year, from 37.8 million lei in 2022, the company said in a statement filed with the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB. Practic attributed the growth in turnover to multiple factors, such as maintaining the occupancy rate of its streetside commercial spaces around the 98% mark, diversifying its tenant mix, and identifying solutions for renting out office buildings located in non-optimal areas. The company's EBITDA decreased to 34.3 million lei in 2023, from 48.5 million lei in the previous year. Practic owned totat assets worth 481.7 million lei at end-2023, making for a rate of return on assets of 5.58%, down from 7.61% a year earlier. Total liabilities stood at 44.8 million lei, for a solvency ratio of 10.75, up from 10.09 in 2022. Practic was founded in 1962 as a state-owned company that managed food stores in Bucharest. The company was privatised in 1990 and started trading on the BVB in 1996. Practic’s shares last traded on March 22, closing 10.43% lower at 1,030 lei on the Bucharest bourse.
The fourth edition of the Romanian Creative Week (RCW), will take place in Iași, eastern Romania, between May 15-26. The event brings together over 1,000 Romanian and foreign artists, 200 events, 350 volunteers, dozens of exhibitions, film festivals, theater and dance performances, three days of fashion shows, as well as visual arts exhibitions, concerts, conferences, […]
Kenyan Alex Nzioka Matata won the Bucharest Half Marathon held last Sunday, May 12, with a time of one hour, one minute, and four seconds. Second place was taken by another Kenyan, Chebor Elvis Tabarach, with a time of one hour, four minutes, and three seconds, while third place went to another Kenyan athlete, Kibet […]
Systematic, a leading Danish provider of software solutions for digitalization that also has a development center in Bucharest with more than 150 skilled IT specialists, has been selected by NATO to provide Command and Control software. SitaWare Headquarters, the software chosen by the international organization, is also developed in Romania by the local team. Signing […]
Romania’s health minister, Alexandru Rafila, announced the initiation of a market study for the construction of the first National Proton Therapy Center in Southeast Europe at the Bucharest Oncology Institute. The project is valued at EUR 70 million. Proton therapy involves using protons to deliver a dose of radiation that kills tumor cells. "Proton therapy will […]
The investment funds active in Romania are more optimistic about the evolution of the local market in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to Roland Berger’s Private Equity Outlook 2024. More than 70% of the respondents in the survey anticipate an increase in the number of transactions made by investment funds in Romania, after 2023 […]
The success rate of requests for bank loans registered on the 123credit.ro platform was approximately 4%, in the first quarter of the year, according to 123credit.ro, the main online credit platform in Romania. White Image together with 123credit.ro contributed to the efficiency of the process of obtaining a bank loan by automating the communications of […]
