Rompetrol Well Services, part of the Rompetrol Group, posted a net profit of around EUR 1.3 million (RON 5.6 million) in the first half of the year, which was 29.4 percent lower compared to the same period of last year.

Recently we attended a wedding in Bucovina. The young couple lived in the USA but both were born in Romania and wanted to celebrate their religious wedding in Romania with their friends and relatives.

Fire broke on Monday evening at US electronic manufacturer Plexus' factory in Oradea, the company has said. The fire started after working hours on Monday while the building was not occupied, Plexus has said without mentioning the cause of the fire. The fire was extinguished during the night

Telecom operator Romtelecom has launched an online portal for the leasing space within its real estate assets across Romania. The website offers over 150 such spaces to lease, from offices top warehouses.

BT Asset Management, part of Banca Transilvania group, has launched the licensing procedure of the BT Index Austria ATX, a passively managed fund on the ATX, the Austrian Traded Index.

The number of malware threats doubled in Romania in the first half of the year compared to the same period of last year, according to BitDefender, the Romanian security solution producer. “The majority of the informatic threats which affected Romanian users in the first half of the year were malware applications which run internationally,” the company has said.

EGL Gas & Power Romania will buy wind energy from EDP Renewables Romania's wind park in Pestera, in Constanta county. The project is still under construction and should be functional by the end of this year. The wind farm project has a capacity of 90 MW.

Vasile Cosmin Turcu has resigned from the position of general manager of Rompetrol Rafinare Constanţa (RRC). The position is covered by Arman Kairdenov, so far the deputy general manager of the company.

EDS Romania, the local subsidiary of printing house Euro-Druckservice, will invest EUR 5 million in new equipments which would allow the company to print smaller circulation projects.

The Romanian Competition Council has warned the Association of Banks active in the country that the exchange of information about the costs of loans offered to consumers could infringe the competition law and the Eu treaty, if it will be followed by a concerted activity.

Jesper Simonsen is the new general manager of Paginii Aurii (Yellow Pages) Romania. He will replace Marco Stettler, who took the helm of the company when it changed shareholders, welcoming the new owner Heise Medien Gruppe.

Mega Image, the supermarket chain owned by Delhaize group, has reached a network of 61 units in Romania, after opening six more stores between June and August this year.