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Cars : BMW's Romania sales pick up 6.6 percent in 2012, hit 2,161 units
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
BMW car sales in Romania amounted to 2,161 units in 2012, up 6.56 percent from 2011, when 2,028 units had been delivered, shows data released on Friday by BMW Romania.This is the third straight year of growth in the Romania sales of the German car manufacturer, amid a steep decline of the car market overall.BMW thus maintains its dominance on ...
Ford produced under 31,000 B-Max in Craiova in 2012 due to the low demand in Europe
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Ford produced in Craiova last year 30,217 B-Max almost 30% less than they announced initially, due to the reduced demand on the European market, touched by the profound recession, the officials of the company say. The production of cars is one shift, but it grows slowly, slowly. Last year they produced almost 27,000 EcoBoost engines, and the first part of this year they should start the ...
The Rabla could start in March with one scrapping premium of 1,500 euro
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The 2013 edition of the Rabla programme could start in March, the scrapping premium could increase to 3,800 lei - 1,500 euro. For the moment everything is in the draft phase and nothing official has been settled, we expect radical changes. By the Programme they scrapped 305,964 used cars in 2010 and 2011 and they acquired 101,766 new cars out of which 40,269 Romanian ones. In 2012 the ...
Logan sales in Russia dropped by 28% in 2012
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Logan sales in Russia dropped last year by 28% to 58,732 units and in December a decline of 43% to 3810 units, the car ranking 11th in 2012 among the best sold 25 models.Sandero, ranking 16th registered last year sales rising by 6% to 48,632 units, but there was a decline of 21% in December, to 4104 units, according to data published by the ...
Real estate : 2012, the most stable crisis year for apartment sale price
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The average sale price for old and new apartments dropped last year by 1.3% from 991 euro/square meters at the beginning of the year to 978 euro at the end of December. The towns with the highest drops were Constanta, Cluj Napoca and ...
Telecom.IT : Gfk Study: Internet penetration rate in Romania, 61% in cities and 33% in rural areas
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Internet penetration rate grew a lot between 2010 and 2012, reaching 61% in cities and 33% in the rural area, according to a Gfk –Omnibus study which collected 40,000 answers in 2 years. The use degree among adults grew ...
Infrastructure : Brasov - Simeria railway and Orastie - Sibiu motorway projects receive highest funding in 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The rehabilitation of the railway Brasov (central Romania) - Simeria (western Romania) for the train circulation with a maximum speed of 160 km/h and of the Orastie - Sibiu (central Romania) motorway are the projects that receive the highest funding in 2013, of 1.008 billion lei and 699.069 million lei, respectively, entirely from foreign non-refundable funds, shows ...
1 billion euro budget for highways and national roads
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The government estimates to ensure 3.4 billion lei (777.7 million euro) from foreign funds and 881.9 million lei (201.6 million euro) from the budget for building highways and rehabilitate national ...
Brasov-Ghimbav terminal will cost 56 million euro
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Brasov County Council decided to sell by concession auction the building of the terminal and other buildings for Brasov-Ghimbav international airport. The decision was made after signing a contract for the construction of a 2,820 m runway at a price of 12.7 million euro, VAT included with money from the county Council. The erection of the terminal and other buildings ...
Real estate: Eurostat: Romania, second place in EU as for construction works increase, in November
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Romania ranks second in the EU in terms of the construction works increase in November 2012 compared to the previous month, in conditions in which the volume of construction works recorded a drop by 0.9 percent in the European Union and 0.4 percent in the euro area, according to data provided by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat).The available data reveal that the volume of ...
Agriculture : Daniel Chitoiu: the new Fiscal Code will be applied with February 1 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The New Fiscal Code which includes the amendment of the way to tax natural persons in agriculture, to be applied after approval starting with 1 February 2013 stated on Monday the minister of public finances at the end of a meeting with the social partners at the ministry of agriculture and rural development. “ The new modality is a simplification and a reduction of the taxing of natural people ...
Minister of Agriculture: Interruption of payments under Fisheries Operational Programme could be lifted in February
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Interruption of payments under Fisheries Operational Program (POP) could be lifted no later than February, in conditions that, currently, the authorities are waiting for a final report to this end from the European Commission, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin told AGERPRES.'I think there are important prerequisites for lifting this interruption of payments from the ...
Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin: We shall launch number of measures meant to ensure preservation of farmland in agriculture
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin said on Thursday that, in 2013, they would launch a number of measures meant to assure us that, after 2014, when the land property market is liberalized for foreign individuals, farmland would belong to agriculture too.'In 2013 we shall launch a number of measures that should assure us that, after 2014, when the land ...
Infrastructure : Low-cost Ryanair airline to start operations on Targu Mures 'Transylvania' Airport
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
President of Mures County Council (center) Ciprian Dobre, and president of the Administration Board of International Airport 'Transylvania' in Targu Mures Andras Peti announced, on Wednesday, in a press conference, that a strategic partnership was forged with the biggest low-cost air operators in Europe, Ryanair, which aims at increasing traffic with 30,000 passengers.'This is big step for the development of the ...
Healthcare: Measures and principles to be promoted by MS for applying public health policies
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Ministry of Health (MS) on Wednesday, in the Government meeting, presented a note on financing private supplies from the National Sole Social Health Insurance Fund (FNUASS), but also information referring to new measures and principles it will promote for applying public health policies. Starting in 2013, the Ministry of Health suggests reshaping the mechanisms meant to finance and distribute FNUASS on the ...
Telecom.IT : Vodafone Romania upgrades 4G speed to 100 Mbps and launches tailored postpay offer
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Vodafone Romania upgraded the 4G services it offers to a speed of 100 Mbps and announced the launch of new post-pay offers. “Starting today, Romanian users benefit from the highest possible speed via the 4G/LTE technology of up to 100 Mbps. The ...
Cars: Porsche sales in Romania 35 pc higher in 2012
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The sales of Porsche cars in Romania reached 138 units in 2012, more than 35 percent higher than 2011, according to a release sent by Porsche Inter Auto company, exclusive importer and distributor of the German luxury car.'2012 proved to be a very good year for the area of luxury cars in Romania. For Porsche, last year represented the second best year in history, after ...
Real estate : Transactions of 340 million euro in 2012, a little more than in 2011
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The value of real estate transactions concluded last year in Romania amounted to about 340 million euro, more than in 2011, when there were transactions of 320 million euro, according to Mediafax data. The capital covers half of the amount the rest concerning towns like Timisoara, Sibiu, Brasov and Pitesti. The dominating real estate sector was that of ...
Study: Residences in Romania, in top 5 for price drops in Europe
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The price of residences in Romania had in 2012 the fifth drop in Europe, over 10% respectively after the Netherlands, Spain, Greece and Ireland, according to a study made by the site globalpropertyguide.com. The first is Ireland, with a minus of 13.17%, in the first nine months of this year, against the same period of 2011. Greece was second, with a reduction of 12.47%, being followed ...
Bucharest, second in the region for empty office spaces
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The rate of non-occupancy of office space in Bucharest, at present in the top of the highest in the region will be reduced by 2014 by approximately five percentage points, at 9.8% as new surfaces of offices finalised in two years will drop in half, a study of the real estate consultancy company Cushman&Wakefield. The company estimates that in 2012 the average rate of non-occupancy ...