The number of companies undergoing insolvency procedures in Romania declined 52 percent in the first 10 months of 2015, but write-offs were up 9 percent, business suspensions 6 percent and dissolutions 41 percent, according to official data with the National Companies Registry Office (ONRC). Most of the insolvencies, write-offs and dissolutions were reported in retail trade, motor vehicle and motorcycle repairing, at 32,736, up 2.77 percent from the similar period of 2014. Thus, as many as 8,540 companies went insolvent in the first 10 months, down 52.57 pct from the first 10 months of 2014. Retail and wholesale trade companies were the most numerous to follow insolvency procedures, at 2,774, down 43.95 percent from the first 10 months of 2014. Topping the insolvency ranking is Bucharest City, with 1,522 insolvency instances (-49.32 percent), followed by Bihor County, with 461 (-61.52 percent) and Timis County, with 436 (-36.16 percent). As far as write-offs are concerned, 69,640 companies were written off, up 9.16 percent, with Bucharest City also topping the ranking, with 12,097 (+39.93 percent). Retail and wholesale traders were also the most numerous written-off traders, at 4,986, up 8.18 percent from the first 10 months of 2014. As many as 14,278 companies suspended business, with their number up 5.99 percent, while 21,716 companies were dissolved, up 41.53 percent. In the first ten months of 2015, a number of 99,521 traders were registered, up 12.96 percent from the first ten months of 2014, with 26,129 of them as retail traders.
Romanian swimmer David Popovici has won the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle final at the World Championships in Singapore. The Romanian athlete won with a time of 1:43.53, ahead of American Luke Hobson (1:43.84) and Japanese Tatsuya Murasa (1:44.54). Popovici entered the race with the fourth fastest time in the semifinals. At the 2024 […]
Sociologist Marius Pieleanu, a familiar figure on TV sets in Romania, where he acts as a political analyst and commentator from his role as a professor at SNSPA, was recently accused of sexual abuse by former female students or women who entered his office. Their testimonies are included in an investigation by journalists at Snoop. […]
T2Y Capital, a financial investor specializing in growth capital with a focus on the energy sector and adjacent industries, announced it was investing in Prime Batteries Energy Holding, thus becoming the second-largest shareholder of the Romanian company with headquarters in Bucharest. T2Y Capital will take a seat on the Board of Directors and support Prime […]
More than half of Romanians (58%) are concerned about the country's economic situation, and inflation remains a central concern for one in five respondents to a survey conducted at the European level by Ipsos for ING Group in May-June 2025. The research analyzed the main concerns of Romanians in the context of the current economic […]
Vlad Micu has been appointed general manager and chairman of the Board of Directors of INNO Investments, a company of the Banca Transilvania Group specializing in the management of alternative investment funds. In his almost 30 years of experience, he has held various management positions in corporate banking, investment banking, trade finance, and business development […]
Measured in local currency, the wealth of citizens in Hungary increased the most in Europe last year, followed by Lithuania and Sweden. In Romania, the median wealth increased by 9.1%, but the long-term average wealth trend decreased, according to a recent report by the multinational investment bank UBS, cited by Euronews. Net wealth per citizen […]
