The Bucharest Coffee Festival, an event for all coffee lovers bringing together the most important national and international coffee producers and importers, will take place at Gabroveni Inn in Bucharest, May 27-29.More than 20 coffee processors and roasters will be displaying at stands, as well as importers and distributors of related products: commercial coffee machines, coffee making accessories, sweeteners, and coffee sweets.The festival is also designed for coffee professionals, the coffee lovers community, home baristas, and also for all hospitality industry players: cafes, artisanal roasters, ToGo coffee shops.During the festival there will be demonstrations of preparation, mixology - mixing coffee with alcoholic beverages in cocktails - and latte art.Part of the festival will be the National Latte Art, Coffee in Good Spirits and Cup Tasting Championships for professionals working in this industry and others. The biggest prize for the winners of each competition is the possibility to compete for Romania at the world championships that will be organised this year in June in Milan.Admission to the festival is free.
Representatives of the ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, gathered for a congress in Bucharest on Friday, November 7, to elect new leadership and to amend the party’s Statute. The only candidate for party leader is Sorin Grindeanu, who held the interim position after Marcel Ciolacu's resignation in May. In his speech at the congress, Sorin […]
The e-commerce sector recorded strong early results on Black Friday 2025, according to real-time data released on Friday, November 7, by PayU GPO Romania from its dedicated Media Center. By 14:10, the payment processor reported successful transactions totaling RON 514 million (roughly EUR 101 million). PayU said shoppers had made roughly 889,000 purchases, with around […]
Contakt Express Logistik, one of Romania’s leading retailers of mobile phone and tablet accessories, with a network of over 235 stores, is set to launch the initial public offering (IPO) between November 12 and December 3, 2025. The company offers a wide range of products, including cases, screen protectors, chargers, and gadgets, both in physical […]
Romania attracts fewer international tourists today than it did during the communist era, making it the only country in Europe in this situation, the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) warned, as reported by news agency Agerpres. According to the organization, Romania received more than 3.4...
InterCapital ETF, the first international ETF provider in Romania, will launch two new exchange-traded funds on the Bucharest Stock Exchange starting November 11, 2025. The new instruments are the InterCapital CROBEX10 TR UCITS ETF, which offers exposure to the Croatian blue-chip equity market by tracking the performance of the CROBEX10tr index, and the InterCapital EUR […]
The Competition Councils of Romania, Bulgaria, and the Republic of Moldova have granted the necessary authorizations and approvals for the completion of the transaction through which Maspex Romania takes over the majority shareholding of Purcari Wineries. The Maspex Group, which has been present in Romania for nearly 30 years, became the majority shareholder of one […]
