Delaco, a major player on the local cheese market, registered a 30 percent increase in sales in the first quarter of this year compared to the first three months of 2008. The product with the highest growth rate compared to 2008, at 60 percent, was yellow cheese.
Romania has a 60% chance to obtain the portfolio of Agriculture and nominate its former agriculture minister Dacian Ciolos for EU Commissioner, sources within the Social Democratic Party told MEDIAFAX Friday. They said lobbying for Ciolos at the European Commission has been going on for the past two years and his potential nomination doesn’t depend […]
Romania will see a two-month period of drought in July and August, which might affect the corn output, but this year’s dry weather is nothing like the one in the summer of 2007, head of the National Meteorology Administration, Ion Sandu, said Wednesday. Romania’s south and southeastern regions will be most affected by drought, Sandu […]
Romania’s Agriculture Ministry plans to reduce the number of departments in its subordination by 67% to 69, from current 206, and their attributions will be entrusted to divisions newly established within the ministry or taken over by local authorities, agriculture minister Ilie Sarbu said Saturday. According to Sarbu, the draft decree on the decentralization and […]
The InterAgro group is bringing in specialists from China and Bulgaria, due to the lack of skilled personnel on the Romanian market, as the group owned by Ioan Niculae requires a further 200 employees to cover its four-shift work capacity. The company plans to recruit 73 specialists from China and Bulgaria and an additional 130 […]
The Agricover group, the largest agricultural product supplier on the local market, will raise employee salaries by some eight percent, the company’s Human Resource (HR) Manager, Simona Podgoreanu, told Business Standard, adding that the firm is currently analyzing the business to set the level of salary increases.
March lending was driven by construction and agriculture, with the most drastic contraction in bank lending registered by industry companies, according to data centralized by the National Bank of Romania.
The Murfatlar producer of wines doubled its market share in the past nine years, to some 23 percent on the 0.75-liter bottle wine segment, and is market leader on this segment, compared to the 12 percent share of the second-largest company, according to Murfatlar officials.
A 19-year-old teenager who arrived from New York recently was admitted to the infectious diseases hospital in Cluj, northeast Romania, with swine flu-like symptoms, health ministry officials said Tuesday, according Mediafax. “The new patient with suspected novel virus is a 19-year-old boy, student in the last year at a high school in Cluj. The teenager […]
The representatives of local fertilizer producers say that a recent government ordinance to allocate less expensive gas to chemical plants and electricity producers is a good decision, albeit insufficient to support their operations, as they still have no buyers for their products.
