Casa Rusu, one of the oldest furniture manufacturers and retailers in Romania, enters insolvency through a simplified procedure, according to a decision taken by the Timis Court. The Rus Savitar Group – Casa Rusu was founded in 1994 by the Rusu family, which is also the owner of Rus Savitar SA, the company through which they produce furniture, and at the same time the creditor in this process through which Casa was declared insolvent through a simplified procedure Rusu SRL. In 2019, the Rusu family sold the business to the Greenbridge investment fund, to buy it back in 2023. “The solution in short: Accept the request. Open the simplified insolvency procedure against the debtor. The Banta? Romana – Diana Individual Insolvency Cabinet is appointed provisional judicial liquidator”, the court’s decision states. The legislation provides that “the simplified insolvency procedure represents the insolvency procedure through which the debtor who meets the conditions provided by law enters directly into the bankruptcy procedure, either with the opening of the insolvency procedure, or after an observation period of a maximum of 20 days, during which analyzes the fulfillment of the legal conditions”. According to listafirme.ro, CASA RUSU SRL had a turnover of just over 65 million lei in 2023 and losses of 7.4 million lei, with an average number of employees of 142. The turnover is 11 million lei lower than in 2022, when the company had 246 employees and recorded similar losses. In 2016, it recorded the highest profit, i.e. just over 3 million lei, on a turnover of 75 million lei. In 2023, another Romanian online furniture retailer Vivre, founded in 2013, entered insolvency.
Graffiti Plus (GRF+), active in Romania's communication consulting market, has signed the contract for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) funding for its listing on the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). GRF+ is also preparing to launch the private financing round it is conducting as a first step toward its debut […]
The wooden church from the village of Oncești, one of the oldest monuments in the heritage of the Maramureș Village Museum “Mihai Dăncuș” in Sighetu Marmației, has been restored. The church has now returned to the tourist circuit through the support provided by the US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, in a project coordinated by […]
The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announced the establishment of its Corporate Governance Committee on Thursday, December 4, to support the implementation of the revised 2025 BVB Corporate Governance Code. Romania’s capital market recently celebrated 30 years of activity and is undergoing significant corporate governance reform. The revised BVB Corporate...
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Ten entrepreneurs and executives have launched Food Angels Hub, a community of investors dedicated to the food sector. The aim of the hub is to “develop and scale functional and profitable companies in the food, hospitality and food-tech sectors” and “turn Romania into a reference point for food innovation in the CEE region.” The founders […]
Romanian developer IULIUS announced that it secured a syndicated loan facility amounting to over EUR 305 million for its Palas Iași mixed-use complex. The financing is provided by a consortium made up of Erste Group Bank Austria, BCR, Raiffeisen Bank Romania, and Raiffeisen Bank International Austria. The loan will support the remodelling of Palas Iași […]
