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Cars: APIA: Car market in Romania exceeded 156,000 new vehicles in 2017
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
The number of new vehicles sold in Romania in 2017 grew by 10.2% compared to last year, to 156,527 units, according to APIA (Association of Automobile Producers and Importers) presented on Tuesday, at the press conference devoted to Bucharest International Automobile Salon (SIAB) 2018, organized at Romexpo over March 28- April 1. Official statistic shows that automobiles recorded a 13.4% increase to 130,414 units. At national level, car sales were, ...
Over 2,800 electric, hybrid cars sold in Romania in 2017; sales of green car doubled
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Out of the total sales of new cars, the share of hybrid and electric cars stood at 2.2 percent in 2017, their number reaching 2,811 units, an increase of 136.7 percent as compared to the previous year, according to statistics with the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA).According to the quoted source, out of the total deliveries nationwide, the 2.2 percent share of eco-friendly cars has doubled compared to the one recorded in ...
National car fleet, up by almost 9 pct in 2017, exceeds 7.63 million vehicles
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Romania's national car fleet reached, end-2017, over 7.635 million units, up 8.91 pct as compared to the previous year, according to data with the Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Directorate (DRPCIV).The specialised statistics show that of the 7,635,775 motor vehicles registered nationwide, 1,320,230 were registered in Bucharest.At the same time, still in the Capital, the number of automobiles registered on 31 December 2017 exceeded 1.057 ...
Healthcare: Study: One out of six Romanians used antibiotics without prescription last year
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
About one out of six Romanians (15%) used antibiotics without prescription from a physician, according to a study made by Cult Market Research. According to the study, the are no major consumption differences between young people, adults and the elderly. 17% of people aged between 35 and 49 use antibiotics without prescription 15 of people aged between 18 and 34 and 15% of people between 50 and 64 . “In other words, Romanians of all ages ...
Health Minister Pintea announces plans to increase number of reference centers for rare diseases
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
The Health Ministry envisages increasing the number of reference centers for the treatment of rare diseases, minister in charge Sorina Pintea told a press conference on Thursday."This is one of our major preoccupations. I wanted to send a signal because I believe it is important that we, as a ministry, show great openness to working together with patient associations and NGOs.We have already taken the first step. The first advisor I appointed to my office is ...
Trade: Romania’s e-commerce market may go over EUR 3 bln this year
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
The e-commerce market in Romania will reach over EUR 3 billion in 2018, up from EUR 2.8 billion in 2017, according to estimates by PayU, one of the biggest local online payment processors, romania-insider.com reads. “It’s very easy to create an online store with reasonable costs today and run efficient marketing campaigns to reach the clients,” says PayU Romania country manager Marius ...
988 billion euro surplus in clothing and accessories trade, in first ten months of 2017
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Romania exported, in the first ten months of 2017, clothes and accessories worth 2.264 billion euro, an amount by 6.1 percent lower than in the similar period of 2016, according to data centralised by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Clothes and accessories imports amounted to 1.275 billion euro, being by 13 percent higher than in the previous year, thus resulting in a 988.4 billion euro surplus on this segment.In the first ten months ...
Tourism : Tourism’s share in GDP increased from 1.5 pc to 2.6 pc in 2017
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
The share of tourism in GDP has increased from 1.5 percent in 2016 to around 2.6 percent in 2017, and for this year other major increases are projected, based on the measures applied in 2017, the former Minister of Tourism, Mircea Titus Dobre, stated in a press release presenting the balance sheet of the last year, romaniajournal.ro reads. According to him, a great achievement of 2017 is the granting of holiday vouchers, worth RON 1,450, for the ...
The tourists’ overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception increased by 6.5% in 2017
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, both the arrivals and the overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception with functions of tourists’ accommodation increased by 10.5 % and by 11.5 %, respectively, in December ...
Agriculture: Jidvei starts support campaign for creative industries and launches Union Wine
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Jidvei, the wine and liquor producer, will start an event and contest campaign for young creators in the fields of literature, art and music, on the occasion of Romania’s Centennial Anniversary and launches Union Wine, company representatives announced in Bucharest. For Union Wine, Jidvei chose two wines: Feteasca Regala , identified for the first time in the 1920s at Tarnave vineyards, and Rose, a combination of Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon ...
Telecom. IT: Mobile phone accessory market in Romania will grow by 10% in Romania this year
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
The Mobile phone accessory market will grow this year by at least 10% in volume, compared to last year, mainly as a result of higher smart phone sales, Costin Soare, the operational manager of Avenir Telecom French group declared for News.ro. The Romanian mobile phone accessory market exceeded 10 million units last year, according to Avenir Tlecom estimates, the distributor of phones, mobile phone accessories and telecommunication ...
Real estate: Bucharest, the most active real estate city in 2017
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
In 2017, Bucharest was the most active city in point of real estate and had the highest rents, while Cluj Napoca can boast the highest sale price per square metre, according to a specialised analysis released on Thursday by a real estate platform devoted to the residential and business sector. According to those data, the most listed types of properties in the residential segment in 2017 were two-rooms apartments, and most lists both for sale and ...
Tourism: Study: Families in northern Bucharest buy holidays twice more expensive that in the rest of country
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
A family in northern Bucharest allocates on the average, 3,000 euros for holidays 45% more than a family in the south of the Capital city and two times more than the average expenses of a family at national level, according to a study made by TUI Travel Center, one of the largest tour operators in Romania, with 80 sales points in the whole country. The shortest holiday in 2017, new year’s eve in the Maldives, was bought by a Romanian couple ...
Healthcare: Italian hospital wants to open 50 clinics in Romania
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The Monza Hospital, the biggest private hospital specialized in cardiovascular surgery in Romania, which is part of Italian group Policlinico din Monza, will open a network of ambulatory cardiology clinics in smaller cities in Romania, romania-insider.com informs. “We are launching a new project together with Ares, which is called Ritmico, a network of ambulatory clinics specialized in cardiology, in ...
Telecom.IT : Telekom Romania begins to use software robots to automate processes
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Telekom Romania started to use software "robots" for process automation and will continue to take steps in this direction as part of the company's strategy of simplifying procedures and product portfolios, writes local paper Ziarul Financiar citing CEO Miroslav Majoros, telecompaper.com informs. He said the company already put into operation robots and Telekom wants to significantly expand their use in 2018 in areas such as financial and ...
Orange Romania gets #1 network certification for best mobile internet, voice from LCC
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Orange Romania obtained a certification from LCC International that attests it has the best network when it comes to the performance of voice and data services in Romanian metropolitan and rural areas. Conducted between 27 November and 20 December 2017, the LCC comparative survey analyses the performance of the main 4 telecom operators in Romania and compares mobile networks from the point of view of voice and data services in different scenarios. The ...
Infrastructure : Blue Air has exceeded the 5 million passengers threshold
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air recorded a 70 percent increase in passengers number, with a total of over 5 million in 2017, a press release informs. For comparison, in 2015, the company transported only 2 million passengers. The increase in passengers number was based on 104 regular flights and more than 700 charter flights, after the company inaugurated 33 new routes in 2017 as part of its expansion ...
Real Estate: Romanian industrial and logistics take-up increased by 15 pct to new record level in 2017
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Romanian industrial and logistics gross take-up increased in 2017 by almost 15 percent to over 525,000 square meters, registering a new record level, business-review.eu reports. Most of the demand came from logistics, transport and distribution companies, which leased a total of 290,000 sqm, or more than 55 percent of the total. The retailers were also among the most active companies last year, with area contracted of over 110,000 sqm, 22 percent of ...
Property investment in Romania up 10% in 2017, strong pipeline for 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Property investment in Romania rose 10% to almost 1 billion euro ($1.22 billion) in 2017 and developers have a strong pipeline for 2018, property and investment management services provider Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) said on Thursday, quoted by seenews.com. The number of transactions in Romania increased in 2017 compared to the previous year, with the average deal size measuring approximately 28.5 million euro, JLL said in a press ...
Agriculture : As many as 59,369 tonnes of tomatoes imported by Romania into September 2017, while exports petty
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Romania imported 59,369 tonnes of tomatoes in first nine months of 2017, amount almost similar to the one of 2016 (59,075 tonnes), while the exports were petty, merely 262.2 tonnes, according to the agri-food products trade balance browsed through by AGERPRES.The value of the imports of fresh or refrigerated tomatoes in the first three quarters of 2017 exceeded EUR 65.46 million, up by 20pct as compared to the same period of 2016 when it parked at EUR 54.54 ...