The number of companies, the net results and own capitals have reached a historical maximum during the pandemic, while non-financial companies' business in Romania decreased, according to the annual KeysFin "Business conditions in Romania" study.Last year, the net result of non-financial companies in Romania increased by nearly 13 pct over 2019, to 104.5 billion RON, and has exceeded, for the first time, the threshold of 100 billion RON, by 221 pct more than in 2015 and 584 pct more than in 2010.On the other hand, the turnover of these companies has reduced by approximately 2.7 pct to 1.641 billion RON, being by 36 pct larger than in 2015 and by 78 pct over the level of 2010.Commerce continued to be the largest Romanian economic sector in 2020 as well, with a turnover of 652 billion RON (40 pct of the total). The top spots are continued by the manufacturing industry, with 393 billion RON (24 pct of the total), construction, with 129 billion RON (8 pct in total), transport and depositing, with 95 billion RON (6 pct in total), and, for the first time in history, IT&C, with 70.3 billion RON (4 pct of the total), sector that replaced, in the top 5, Energy & Gas.In 2020, the highest annual percentage increases of the turnover were recorded in construction (+18.8 pct, in the pandemic year), healthcare & social assistance (+10.4 pct to 15.6 billion RON), IT&C (+5.6 pct in 2020), water supply and sanitation (+2 pct to 17 billion RON) and professional activities (+0.6 pct to 49 billion RON).According to the study, in total, in Romania there were 4 million employees in 2020, by 4 pct fewer than in 2019.A record number, of nearly 788,500 non-financial companies, by 3.3 pct more than in the previous year, have reported their results for 2020, of which 704 were large companies (with over 250 employees and a turnover of over 50 million euro), 8,200 medium-sized companies (between 50 and 250 employees and a turnover between 10 and 50 million euro), 47,200 small companies (between 10 and 50 employees and turnover between 2 and 10 million euro), and 732,000 micro-enterprises (less than 10 employees and a turnover under 2 million euro), according to data extracted by Keysfin analysts in September 2021.The own capital of micro-enterprises rose by 42 pct over 2019, reaching 98 billion RON in 2020.
The Romanian city of Alba Iulia will attempt to set a Guinness World Record on Saturday, September 13, with Masa Care Unește/The Table That Unites, a massive community gathering where more than 10,000 people will sit at a 2.7-kilometer-long table built entirely from recycled materials around the historic Alba Carolina Citadel. The event, organized by […]
Discount retailer Pepco celebrated a decade of operations in Romania on Thursday, September 11, with the opening of its 500th store nationwide. The company, which first entered the country in 2015 with stores in Bucharest, Ploiești, and Câmpina, now operates in more than 100 cities and employs nearly 4,000 people. Romania has become Pepco Group’s […]
Social Democrat (PSD) MP Mihai Weber, head of the parliamentary defense committee, came under fire after investigative platform Snoop unveiled his EUR 140,000 hybrid Mercedes AMG GLE 53 purchased this year through a small firm that operates no more than a countryside...
Touching high public expectations for initiating reforms in the judiciary system, Romania's president Nicusor Dan explained in two consecutive interviews given to the public TVR and B1 broadcasters that "it takes time and a critical mass," but assured that he has not abandoned "at all" the idea. On the magistrates' retirement and pensions, he reiterated […]
The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) summoned the Russian ambassador to Bucharest on September 11 to convey its position of firm condemnation of the violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones, according to a ministry's press release. "The Romanian side stressed that, by its gravity, implications and scope, the incident represents an unprecedented escalation, […]
Spanish group Ecoener announced it boosts its expansion in the European Union with the upcoming construction of a 54.4 MW wind farm in Miroslovesti, in north-eastern Romania, after being awarded a Contract for Difference (CfD). The company has been awarded a 15-year contract in the Romanian government’s renewable energy tender. It plans to begin construction […]
