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Romanians developing taste for cruise holidays after prices fall: 7,000 orders
Around 7,000 Romanians went on a cruise holiday last year, while worldwide 17.5 million people worldwide choose to spend their holidays on cruising ships every year.
Most expensive stocks on the Bourse
SIF Oltenia (SIF5), Banca Transilvania (TLV) and Zentiva București (SCD) are currently among the most "expensive" shares on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in terms of minimum amounts investors...
How can Romanians' exposure to foreign currency risk be curbed?
When two thirds of retail lending is foreign currency-denominated, talks about curbing foreign currency loans appear to come late. In recent years, this major vulnerability of the domestic m...
Businesspeople about 2011 Easter: a little better than in 2010
For a 50-sqm sweet shop in a town, Easter and Christmas bring half of annual profit. For large shopping centres, Easter and Christmas mean 20-30% added to total turnover.
2011, a new beginning on office market
2011 is set to be the year of a new wave of projects for the experienced office market developers though the vacancy rate in Bucharest is still around 15%.
UK and Russia, the new targets of Cristina Bâtlan, Musette founder
Cristina Bâtlan, the founder of Musette, plans to expand this year on the Russian and British markets, after the opening of the first store in New York last year whetted her appetite for exp...
Hungary's MKB determined to sell Romexterra
Hungary's MKB bank, controlled by Bayern LB German group, has officially embraced an exit strategy related to the Romanian market, planning to sell MKB Romexterra Romanian subsidiary by 2013...
Romtelecom has shut down 12 stores since early 2011. The reason: they were not profitable
Romtelecom, the biggest provider of fixed telephony services domestically, has closed 12 stores in several cities of the country since the start of this year, with the decision prompted by t...
13,000 Romanians hold 4bn euros' worth of deposits
Each of them with at least 300,000 euros on average in at least one bank, these are the clients bankers, as well as luxury industry companies, are fighting for.