The French company CDS Groupe, a supplier of booking and payment solutions in the hotel business, in full expansion in Europe, ambitious in become a leader on the continent, have come to Romania, data analysed by Profit.ro show. The branch, based in Timisoara, will act as touroperator. In November, CDS Groupe purchased the Italian company SIAP, a supplier of software solutions for traveling and tourism. “This purchase consolidates our position of leader and corresponds to our ambition to obtain 1 billion euros from hotel bookings for business trips in the next 3 years,” said Ziad Minkara, CEO and founder of CDS Groupe. CDS intends to make new purchases in Europe in order to become the main European technological integrator in the hotel industry and business trips. The company, founded 20 years ago, bought in 2022 the booking platform Goelett and a year later entered the German market, with another purchase (Crporate Rate Club). Now, theCDS network covers France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Poland and Croatia. The company has 350 employees and over 1,500 direct customers and partner travel agencies, with a volume of hotel bookings of 800 million euros.
Romanian PM Ilie Bolojan operates outside of the legal procedures when initiating consultations on a proposal for amending the legislation on the service pensions in the field of Justice, the Romanian Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) said in a press release on July 30. ...
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Justice Minister Radu Marinescu (Social Democratic Party) stated, in an intervention on Digi24, that the ministry he heads supports the special pension reform, proposed by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, but "the set of proposals communicated by the prime minister will...
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Hidroelectrica (BVB: H2O), the largest energy producer controlled by the Romanian state, announced on the Bucharest Exchange that its net electricity production decreased by 27% in the first half of the year, to 6,068 GWh, while purchased energy increased by 62%, to 674 GWh. The company’s financial results for the first 6 months of the […]
