The direct investments of non-residents in Romania totaled 9.399 billion euros in the first 10 months of this year, higher by 20.59% compared to the 7.794 billion euros from January to October 2021, according to the data published on Wednesday by the National Bank of Romania (BNR)."The direct investments of non-residents in Romania totaled 9.399 billion euros (compared to 7.794 billion euros in the period January - October 2021), of which equity participations (including the estimated net reinvested profit) totaled a net value of 6.617 billion euros, and the intragroup loans recorded a net value of 2.782 billion euros," informs BNR.The number of companies with newly established foreign capital in Romania increased, in the first ten months of 2022, by 30.7%, compared to the similar period in 2021, to 6,175 units, according to the data centralized by the National Trade Registry Office (ONRC).The 6,175 new companies had a subscribed capital in the total amount of 35.060 million dollars, 2.7% lower than that of the companies registered between January and October 2021, of 36.028 million dollars.In October 2022, as many as 652 companies with foreign participation in the share capital were registered.Depending on the fields of activity, the most registrations were registered in September in wholesale and retail trade, car and motorcycle repair (24.69% of the total), professional, administrative, scientific and technical activities (21.78%), and transport, storage and communications (17.18%).At the end of October 2022, there were 243,022 companies with foreign participation in the share capital in Romania. The value of the subscribed capital was 67.162 billion US dollars.The largest number of companies with foreign participation was with investors from Italy, respectively 51,579 (subscribed capital of 4.009 billion dollars), but the highest value of social capital belongs to Dutch companies, respectively 12.599 billion dollars, in 5,842 companies.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
