Swedish fashion retailer H&M will open the first store in Romania in March this year, in AFI Palace Cotroceni and plans to open six stores in the first half of 2011, according to Wall-street.ro. H&M plans to hire at least 300 people in Romania by the end of the year.

Romania’s Government might sell further shares in natural gas producer Romgaz after the company’s floating on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, but it will keep the majority stake, according to an official document obtained by Mediafax newswire.

French retailer Carrefour posted EUR 1.13 billion in sales in Romania last year, down 0.4 percent on the year before. The retailer managed to up its sales by 0.2 percent in the forth quarter of the year, to EUR 327 million.

Developer Cefin Real Estate Asset Management (CREAM) has bought back the Cefin Logistic Park Arad real estate project from investment fund Europolis. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

Romania’s state-owned railway company CFR SA will modernize ten train stations in the country for an estimated RON 332.8 million net of VAT, EUR 96.7 million including VAT, the company said on Thursday. CFR will organize four auctions for execution works.

Foreign direct investments to Romania dropped by 25.6 percent in the first 11 months of 2010 in Romania, to EUR 2.27 billion and they managed to cover only about half of the account deficit, according to data from the Romanian Central Bank.

Romanian state-owned gas producer Romgaz Medias posted a turnover of EUR 808 million last year and a profit of EUR 121 million. The turnover was slightly higher than in the previous year, while the profit went down 12 percent.

Romania has received vegetable oil and oleaginous products import requests from several countries, among which Jordan and Tunisia, according to Valeriu Tabara, the Romanian Agriculture Minister, quoted by Mediafax newswire.

Nikken, a wellness products direct selling company which has recently officially entered the Romanian market, plans to reach a network of at least 3,000 consultants in Romania, from the current network of around 700 people, Romania-Insider.com has learned. Nikken currently operates directly from its UK based company Nikken UK Ltd, while being registered for VAT in Romania and having products approved by Romanian authorities, Janne Heimonen, head of sales and marketing with Nikken Europe told Romania-Insider.com.

A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission will review Romania's economic performances and reforms between January 25 and February 8, the seventh review mission within the stand-by agreement. The delegation will be led by Jeffrey Franks (in picture) and will be joined by the European Commission and World Bank teams.

Swedish fashion retailer H&M will open the first store in Romania in March this year, in AFI Palace Cotroceni and plans to open six stores in the first half of 2011, according to Wall-street.ro. H&M plans to hire at least 300 people in Romania by the end of the year.

Romania’s Government might sell further shares in natural gas producer Romgaz after the company’s floating on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, but it will keep the majority stake, according to an official document obtained by Mediafax newswire.

French retailer Carrefour posted EUR 1.13 billion in sales in Romania last year, down 0.4 percent on the year before. The retailer managed to up its sales by 0.2 percent in the forth quarter of the year, to EUR 327 million.

Developer Cefin Real Estate Asset Management (CREAM) has bought back the Cefin Logistic Park Arad real estate project from investment fund Europolis. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

Romania’s state-owned railway company CFR SA will modernize ten train stations in the country for an estimated RON 332.8 million net of VAT, EUR 96.7 million including VAT, the company said on Thursday. CFR will organize four auctions for execution works.

Foreign direct investments to Romania dropped by 25.6 percent in the first 11 months of 2010 in Romania, to EUR 2.27 billion and they managed to cover only about half of the account deficit, according to data from the Romanian Central Bank.

Romanian state-owned gas producer Romgaz Medias posted a turnover of EUR 808 million last year and a profit of EUR 121 million. The turnover was slightly higher than in the previous year, while the profit went down 12 percent.

Romania has received vegetable oil and oleaginous products import requests from several countries, among which Jordan and Tunisia, according to Valeriu Tabara, the Romanian Agriculture Minister, quoted by Mediafax newswire.

Nikken, a wellness products direct selling company which has recently officially entered the Romanian market, plans to reach a network of at least 3,000 consultants in Romania, from the current network of around 700 people, Romania-Insider.com has learned. Nikken currently operates directly from its UK based company Nikken UK Ltd, while being registered for VAT in Romania and having products approved by Romanian authorities, Janne Heimonen, head of sales and marketing with Nikken Europe told Romania-Insider.com.

A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission will review Romania's economic performances and reforms between January 25 and February 8, the seventh review mission within the stand-by agreement. The delegation will be led by Jeffrey Franks (in picture) and will be joined by the European Commission and World Bank teams.