Romanian Business Consult (RBC), the largest IT solutions integrator for the food industry ans retail, purchased all shares of Smartpay Software, an IT application producer set up in 2016 and with a business of 4.4 million lei in 2021, data supplied by Profit.ro. The shares were sold by Sebastian Alexandru Ionita -32.5%, Marius Viorel Constantinescu – 32.5% and Cristian Florin Orascu – 2.5%. Smartpay Software product portfolio includes payment solutions by card on EFT-POS terminals and cash deposit solutions in self service system, middleware for transactions, monitoring and management solutions for terminal fleets. Following the purchase, RBC group completes its team and has 50 specialists in software development and application implementation and over 235 service engineers and national support , covering the whole range of software and IT services for modern retail and banking sectors. In December 2020, RBC took over Ropeco, a local supplier of solutions and equipment in the field of cash processing. RBC was set up in 2013 and is fully controlled by Bluekit Limited (Cyprus), according to Termene.ro. Company business advanced slightly in 2021 to 164.1 million lei and profit increased to 10.77 million lei.
June is the richest month. The most awaited two weeks in my annual festival pilgrimage. The route starts with Romania’s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), followed by Italy’s (and the world’s) most comprehensive festival for restored and archival film: Il Cinema Ritrovato. To shake up the traditional article on the two, I’ll start with the […]
Different Beauty, a recently opened exhibition of works by Czech photographer David Těšínský, offers a glimpse into everyday life in the war-torn region of Donbas in 2017. The photos were taken within the span of only a few days, as Těšínský traveled to eastern Ukraine to document the lives of women impacted by war. In […]
Different Beauty, a recently opened exhibition of works by Czech photographer David Těšínský, offers a glimpse into everyday life in the war-torn region of Donbas in 2017. The photos were taken within the span of only a few days, as Těšínský traveled to eastern Ukraine to document the lives of women impacted by war. In […]
Roughly 70% of Romanians are “very” or “moderately” concerned about how AI accesses and uses their data, according to the latest survey conducted by RoCoach in partnership with Novel Research between May and June 2025. Distrust in automated decision-making and the demand for regulation are becoming more pronounced, as Romania rolls out major digitalization projects […]
The Armenian Street Festival returns for a 9th edition between August 1 and 3, 2025, in the “Dimitrie Brândză” Botanical Garden in Bucharest. The festival brings into focus the living heritage of the Armenian community in Romania and the diaspora. According to the organizers, this year’s edition aims to strengthen the Bucharest–Chișinău–Yerevan cultural axis, articulated […]
The Romanian mergers and acquisitions market registered a total of 122 announced transactions in the first half of 2025, with a value exceeding EUR 2.7 billion, marking a slight increase of 6% in volume and 4% in value compared to the same period last year, according to an analysis by George Ureche, partner at PwC Romania. […]
