The medicine producer Sintofarm (SINT) summoned its shareholders at the end of December to decide on selling equipment, trademarks and other shares and on taking over the name Imosint and change the field of activity for real estate development. Shareholders must decide on selling the whole trade fund of the company except for buildings. The meeting will be held on December 21. Sintofarm has a factory in Bucharest. Last year the company reported a net business figure of 6.17 million lei, on the drop by 13% from 7.08 million lei in 2013 , when net profit dropped to less than a half, from 1 million lei in 2013 tp 470,000 lei in 2014. In the first nine months of 2015, the net business figure was 4.72 million lei, very close to the one registered the previous year - 4.66 million lei. Gross profit was 493,825 lei, on the drop by 9% compared to 542,347 lei last year. Sintofarm shareholders are Generalcom - 27.99%, Interfinance Capital Investment (Gibraltar) - 26.27%, Iberestate International - 15.37% and SIF Muntenia (SIF4) -13%, while the rest of shares belong to other investors. Generalcom (GECM) is a company specialised in managing commercial areas and has shares at Centrofarm and Sintofarm. The main shareholders of Generalcom are Iberestate International -45.6% and the Portuguese businessman Alain Bonte -36.93%. The rest of shares is owned by other shareholders. Bonte is chairman of the Administration Board of Sintofarm, while Radulescu Niculina is vice-chairman. They are also managers of Generalcom, where Bonte is president and Radulescu general manager.
Representatives of the ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, gathered for a congress in Bucharest on Friday, November 7, to elect new leadership and to amend the party’s Statute. The only candidate for party leader is Sorin Grindeanu, who held the interim position after Marcel Ciolacu's resignation in May. In his speech at the congress, Sorin […]
The e-commerce sector recorded strong early results on Black Friday 2025, according to real-time data released on Friday, November 7, by PayU GPO Romania from its dedicated Media Center. By 14:10, the payment processor reported successful transactions totaling RON 514 million (roughly EUR 101 million). PayU said shoppers had made roughly 889,000 purchases, with around […]
Contakt Express Logistik, one of Romania’s leading retailers of mobile phone and tablet accessories, with a network of over 235 stores, is set to launch the initial public offering (IPO) between November 12 and December 3, 2025. The company offers a wide range of products, including cases, screen protectors, chargers, and gadgets, both in physical […]
Romania attracts fewer international tourists today than it did during the communist era, making it the only country in Europe in this situation, the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) warned, as reported by news agency Agerpres. According to the organization, Romania received more than 3.4...
InterCapital ETF, the first international ETF provider in Romania, will launch two new exchange-traded funds on the Bucharest Stock Exchange starting November 11, 2025. The new instruments are the InterCapital CROBEX10 TR UCITS ETF, which offers exposure to the Croatian blue-chip equity market by tracking the performance of the CROBEX10tr index, and the InterCapital EUR […]
The Competition Councils of Romania, Bulgaria, and the Republic of Moldova have granted the necessary authorizations and approvals for the completion of the transaction through which Maspex Romania takes over the majority shareholding of Purcari Wineries. The Maspex Group, which has been present in Romania for nearly 30 years, became the majority shareholder of one […]
