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Trade: Survey : Romanians prefer local products
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Most Romanians prefer buying Romanian products, according to the survey conducted by the Romanian Institute of Social Studies (IRSS), commissioned by TVH 2.0 station, quoted by the Capital magazine.As many as 65 percent of the respondents said they prefer to buy Romanian products, and 31 percent said they do not care about the source of products they buy. A share of 3 percent of those polled said they buy imported ...
eMAG mid-December sales 52 pct higher y-o-y
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Sales by e-commerce site eMAG in the first two weeks of December 2012 were by 52 percent higher than the amount recorded in the same period last year, as three million Romanians sought Christmas gifts in this online store, the company informs.To avoid crowded stores, increasingly more Romanians have this year turned to the internet for Christmas shopping. Thus, the number of eMAG unique visitors in ...
Real estate: Statistics: as many as 35,521 planning permissions issued for residential buildings in first 11 months
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The number of planning permissions issued for residential buildings decreased in the first 11 months of 2012 by 3.2 percent from the same period of last year, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).As many as 35,521 planning permissions were issued from January to November 2012.Significant decreases in the number of planning permissions issued for residential ...
Agriculture : Policy mix is required for crop lands to merge in Romania
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A mix of policies is required for crop lands to merge in Romania, because this is to contribute to the development of the irrigation system and curbing the Romanian agriculture's excessive dependence on weather, during the years ahead, reads the survey named Balance exchange rate and its key elements - Romania's case, and conducted by the National Commission of ...
Tourism : Sibiu city present at Vienna Tourism Fair
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The tourism destination city of Sibiu, the only city in Romania with three Michelin stars, will be present at the Vienna Tourism Fair where dozens of thousands of visitors are expected between January 10 and 13, along with hundreds of exhibitors from all around the world, announced mayor Klaus Iohannis on Thursday.In the second day of fair in Vienna, the ...
About 10 M Romanians travel abroad in 2012
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
About 10 million Romanians have traveled abroad in 2012, their number being by 2 percent larger than in 2011, inform data the Romanian National Association of Travel Agents (ANAT) sent to the National Institute of Statistics. About 80 percent of the Romanian tourists traveling abroad preferred the road transportation.'Despite the rather poor start, the year 2012 gave us good reasons to think that ...
German tour operator ITS Reisen promotes Romanian tourism in its 2013 catalogue
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
German tour operator ITS Reisen, part of the concern Rewe, will promote Romanian tourist destinations in its 2013 catalogue, starting with the Danube Delta. Next year, ITS Reisen plans to draw up a brochure on Romanian tourist destinations and products and supply it to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The main types of tourism will target the Danube Delta, cultural circuits, as well as the active tourism and the ...
Healthcare: Health card, electronic prescriptions compulsory starting Jan. 1
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The health card and the electronic prescriptions have become compulsory in Romania starting Jan. 1.The card is a personal instrument aimed to identify the patient in the national health insurance system and it allows repayment of the actual medical services made by the system.The card is mandatory starting Jan. 1 for all the Romanian citizens ...
Health Ministry aims to develop telemedicine system with USTDA support
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Ministry of Health intends to develop the telemedicine system with the help of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), according to a release from the ministry.The Romanian Government approved the memorandum on the cooperation with the US Government in the field of developing telemedicine in the rural, hard to reach areas.In this ...
Trade : Survey: Three out of four Romanians prefer to give loved ones presents, than to receive
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
On Christmas, Romanians want to give presents to their loved ones rather than to receive, shows a survey on consumer behavior around the winter holidays, conducted by Reveal Marketing Research.According to the survey, most women wish to receive clothing items on their winter holidays (19.6 percent), but also jewelry (15.4 percent). Men, however, want electronics (38.4 percent) and personal accessories (13.9 percent).As far as the gifts ...
Real estate : Number of finished houses dropped to 26,650 units in first 9 months
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The number of finished houses dropped by 2,430 units in the first 9 months compared to the same period of 2011, the evolution being influenced by the dropping number of houses and apartments financed with private funds, according to data published by national Institute of Statistics on Monday. “The analysis of buildings points to the ...
Cars: Toyota launches Prius Plug-in hybrid model, at 43,900 euro in Romania
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Toyota launched the hybrid model Prius Plug-in, the top model of a family of hybrids in a single variant and a price of 43,900 euro, VAT included. Toyota Romania inaugurated at the same time the first Enel electric charging station located on Pipera Tunari Road.Prius is the best sold hybrid car (using both fuel and energy supply) in the ...
BMW sells 1,894 cars in Romania in first 11 months
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
BMW sold on the Romanian market 1,894 cars in the first 11 months of 2012 and despite the overall decline in the car market by 40-50 percent, it is nearing the 2011 performance, when it sold 2,028 units throughout the year.According to the data released on Tuesday by BMW Romania, November was the best month in terms of sales in 2012, with 222 units sold, even if the sales were lower than those in November 2011, when 257 units were ...
Infrastructure: Construction works at Sibiu-Pitesti motorway to start in 2012 or early 2014
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The construction works at Sibiu-Pitesti motorway start in 2013, if the European Commission approves this motorway stretch, which is going to need major investments within the European funding programme, said Mircea Pop, general director of the National Company of Motorways and National Roads of Romania (CNADNR), on Wednesday for Agerpres.'This stretch will be built with European money. The paperwork made by us is with JASPERS, the European assistance ...
Agriculture: Dacian Ciolos: Romania to face no problems about 'greening' measures
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Romania will have no issues to implement the 'greening' methods proposed in the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) because they already have areas of environmental significance, to be eligible for payment, starting in 2014, said European Commissioner Dacian Ciolos in Brussels on Monday, December 10.'I believe there will be no problem in Romania to adopt this 'greening' measure, namely to preserve 7 ...
Eurostat: Romania, most significant decline in EU in real revenues of farmers, in 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The real revenues of farmers in the agricultural sector in Romania in 2012 registered a 16.4 percent decline, the most significant decline in the EU, while in the European Union (EU27) these increased 1 percent, after having grown 8 percent in 2011, according to the preliminary data on 2012 presented on Wednesday by the European Statistics Office (Eurostat).The highest increases of farmers' revenues were registered in Belgium (30 percent), the Netherlands (14.9 ...
Tourism: Tourism employers suggest VAT cut for tourism services and foods
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Romanian tourism directly depends on VAT on tourism services and foods, so that this tax on the two aforementioned categories should be reduced for the sector to really get a new lease of life, the Employers' Federation of Tourism and Services (FPTS) said in a release on Thursday.'If decision makers consider supporting tourism by lowering the VAT on all services in the industry, but on food as well, then the indexation of local taxes and fees by the inflation rate ...
Romanians will have average incomes up to 425 euro for 2013 holidays
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The Romanians will allocate average incomes up to 425 euro per person for 2013 holidays, representatives of Eurolines in Romania said on Thursday at a press conference. “As for exotic destinations, the Romanians preferred the Dominican Republic and Thailand in 2012. For Thailand alone, about 8,000 Romanians bought holidays in the first 11 months of 2012. Greece, Turkey and Spain are ...
Telecom.IT : Romanians access mobile Internet more and more
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The overall number of active broad band Internet connections to mobile phones reached 6.9 million, on the rise by 63.8% compared to the end of 2011 and almost double the value recorded by mid 2011, ANCOM announced on Wednesday. Of the total number of active mobile Internet connections, 5.6 million were made by means of mobile phones and 1.3 million connections by means of modems/cards/USB ...
Cars: Registrations of new motor vehicles decrease nearly 40 percent in November
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The number of newly registered motor vehicles decreased in November by nearly 40 percent to 7,569 units, with passenger cars having seen a decline above the general average, by 44.57 percent respectively, compared with the same period in 2011, according to the data that the Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Department /DRPCIV/ released on Monday.In the said month, the best-selling make remained Dacia, by 1,380 units (-57.38 percent from November 2011), ...