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10/01/2012 - Renault plans to build cars in China

French automaker Renault plans to begin building vehicles in China with Chinese partner Dongfeng, likely as early as 2014, the head of Renault and Japan’s Nissan Carlos Ghosn said, Wall Street Journal informs.

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09-01-2012 - Oil companies dealt EUR 205 M fine – record level within EU

The Competition Council sanctioned the main oil companies in Romania by fines of up to 3 pc of their 2010 turnovers. Petrom, believed to have been the originator of the understanding.

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12-12-2011 - Retail trade turnover up by 2 pc in October

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12-12-2011 - Nadlac-Arad motorway completion, questioned

The Motorways Company says there is no reason of concern while the soil collapses.

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12-12-2011 - First Reserve and Renovalia Energy to develop wind power projects in Romania

The American private capital fund First Reserve will embark on a USD 1bln-joint venture with the Spanish company Renovalia Energy which envisages the development of wind power projects in several countries, Romania included, Mediafax reports.

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09-12-2011 - Esprit pulls out from Romanian market

The AAV Group controlled by businessman Vicentiu Zorzolan has closed down all three Esprit stores it owned on the local market, ‘Ziarul Financiar’ informed. The company, which according to the latest information owns the Esprit and Springfield franchises, has closed down the stores located within Plaza Romania, Bucharest Mall and Baneasa Shopping City, the brand thus pulling out from the market.

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08-12-2011 - Romania, strategic market for Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Romania ranks first in Central and Eastern Europe based on the company Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd’s turnover trend, according to a press release remitted to “Nine O’Clock”.

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04-12-2011 - Merkel: Pay attention to Romania’s and Bulgaria’s contribution to euro stability!

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recognized Romania’s and Bulgaria’s role in helping the stability of the euro as a common European currency, Novinite.com informs. In her speech before the German Bundestag, in which she proposed a new euro fiscal union, Merkel did not omit to mention certain EU countries outside the euro zone which “don’t get so much attention.”

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03-10-2011 - Next year, excise duties to be calculated at 4.3 RON/EUR

Next year, excise duties will be calculated at an exchange rate of 4.3001 RON/EUR, announced Monday by the European Central Bank (ECB), an exchange rate that is 0.8 pc higher than this year’s 4.2655 RON/EUR, Mediafax reports.

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03-10-2011 - State favourable to declassifying Bechtel contract

Transport Minister Anca Boagiu stated during a talk-show that the Romanian state was favourable to declassifying the contract signed with Bechtel for the building of the Transilvania highway, but did not have the American company’s approval to make the terms of the contract public, Mediafax reports.

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30-09-2011 - Danube bridge toll hiked as of today

The Romanian National Road and Highways Company (CNADNR) hikes as of today the tolls charged for vehicles crossing the Fetesti-Cernavoda and Giurgeni- Vadu Oii bridges across the Danube, after discounts granted during the summer months, to rates ranging between RON 8 and 11, depending on the type of vehicle, Mediafax reports.

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15-09-2011 - Dacia will paint its automobiles in a new range of colours

Starting next year, the Renault group will adopt new colours for its Dacia automobiles, Mediafax reports.

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15-09-2011 - Best 2010 results come from oil, automotive and exporting industries

Oil and gas companies had the best return on capital ratio in 2010, but a high performance was also registered in the automotive and exporting industries, says National Bank of Romania (BLNR), according to Mediafax. At the same time, the average state-owned companies’ return on capital was negative.

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09-08-2011 - VisitBritain suspends marketing activity in face of riots

VisitBritain, the national tourist board, is suspending digital activity on the BBC's international news site, as part of its £100m 'You're Invited' campaign, as the ads are deemed "no longer appropriate".

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09-08-2011 - Romanian exports up by 28.2 pc

In the first half-year, Romania’s free on board (FOB) exports amounted to EUR 22.01bln, rising by 28.2 pc, compared to the first half of 2010. The value is similar to the exports’ growth rate reported in 2010 (28.1 pc), the year which saw a record high in exports in the past two decades.

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08-08-2011 - Romanian state blocks subventions allotted to Ford

The Romanian state blocked the subventions to Ford, arguing that the sums invested by the American car-maker in the Craiova plant are lower than was initially promised, “Gazeta de Sud” reports.

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08-08-2011 - New industrial orders up approx. 20 pc

New industrial orders have grown by 19.4 per cent in H1 compared to the same period last year, the data published by the National Statistics Institute (INS) shows.

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06-08-2011 - Romania’s partnership with Bechtel ends

The cost of the Transilvania motorway drops by 50 pc, as the American company will receive no compensation for the modification of the contract.

The US company Bechtel will leave the construction site of the Transilvania motorway in 2013 and will continue to work only on the Campia Turzii-Gilau and Suplacu de Barcau-Bors segments, which cumulate 118 of the 415 km of the motorway, thus allowing the state to put on auction the remaining six segments, Mediafax reports.

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25-07-2011 - Petrom offering fails due to insufficient subscriptions

Brokers say unrealistic price and poor promotion made the largest oil company in Romania’s offering an unappealing one.

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25-07-2011 - Romania to eliminate special customs tax charged for international cargo transport

Romania will eliminate the special tax charged in customs from international cargo trucks, USD 20 per vehicle or trailer, since it is contrary to community regulations and unsupported by bilateral agreements to which Romania is party, Mediafax informs. The tax was introduced in 1975 and the collection system was last revised in 1992. Current laws allow the customs authority to charge a special tax for each vehicle and trailer used in international cargo transport.

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25-07-2011 - ZEW: Romania’s economic outlook once again best in CEE

The financial analysts’ perception of the Romanian economy’s outlook in the next six months has returned to being the best in Central and Eastern Europe in July, against the backdrop of a slower worsening of expectations toward most of the states in the region, a ZEW – Centre for European Economic Research poll shows, Money.ro informs.

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12-07-2011 - Premium Aerotec opens new plant in Brasov county

Premium Aerotec, the supplier of civil and military aircraft structures, has finished the second construction phase, therefore opening its new plant in Ghimbav, Brasov County. The production facility for aircraft components, erected in just 14 months, was officially commissioned, yesterday in the presence of Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and European Aeronautic, Defense and Space (EADS) CEO, Louis Gallois. The new plant will specialise in the production and assembly of metal components for all Airbus series programmes. The production activity started in December 2010 on completion of the first construction phase.

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07-07-2011 - Honda Trading Romania takes over as motorcycle importer from Autoitalia

Honda’s office in Romania took over, from Inter Motorcycle, a member of the Autoitalia group, as the official importer of the Japanese brand’s motorcycles, at a local level, a press release informs.

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08-06-2011 - Contracts for last three segments of Orastie-Sibiu highway signed

The Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure (MTI) signed, yesterday, the last three contracts for the design and building of a number of segments of the Orastie-Sibiu highway which had been contested, after the first lot was signed in May, alongside four other highway packages. The investment amounts to a total EUR 427.5 M, Mediafax reports.

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07-06-2011 - 16 motorways lanes in the USA cost as much as 4 lanes in Romania

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) wants to terminate the contract with Bechtel, according to information obtained by Jurnalul National. Recently, the Romanian National Company of Motorways and National Roads (CNADNR) sent Bechtel USA a letter in which it requests information about contracts similar to that signed with the Romanian state.

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07-06-2011 - Romania, the second biggest fall in EU sales volume in April

Among the Member States of European Union, total retail trade rose in April in thirteen and decreased in eight.

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07-06-2011 - April car and retail businesses down from March

Consumer service turnover fell on account of decline in travel agency, tour operator, hotel and restaurant business.

The gross business turnover in the automotive and motorcycle industry fell 4.7 per cent in April, from March, and consumer service businesses shrank 0.4 per cent, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The drop in wholesale and retail business, maintenance and repair was due to lower sales of car parts and accessories, down 8.7 per cent, motorcycle maintenance and overhaul, 4.8 per cent, car maintenance and repair, 3.6 per cent, and car sales, 2.5 per cent.

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07-06-2011 - EC: Major European road-builders keep away from Romania

Construction works on road infrastructure in Romania saw, between 2000 and 2009, the steepest price rise in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), according to the “Jaspers” study commissioned by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB), analyzing projects conducted in nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe, “Romania Libera” reports.

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07-06-2011 - Number of second-hand cars registered drops by a quarter, in first 4 months

Nearly 35,400 second-hand cars were registered in the first four months of 2011, slumping by over a quarter compared to the same interval of the preceding year, according to figures supplied by the Traffic Police, quoted by Money.ro.

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06-06-2011 - MINI Coupe to be launched in Romania this autumn

The BMW Group released a batch of preliminary information about MINI Coupe, the only two seat-automobile in the current range of the British brand MINI, based on the eponymous concept, HotNews reports.

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06-06-2011 - Environment Ministry holds its ground – ecological tax maintained

According to the Environment Minister, Laszlo Borbely, the idea of introducing a single tax for all vehicles could be addressed, at some point but, for now, Romania is not ready to take this step.

The Minister of the Environment and Forests, Laszlo Borbely stated yesterday, during a press conference marking the World Environment Day that he would not pull out the ecological tax just because Romanian citizens continue to register their cars in Bulgaria.

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06-06-2011 - Transporters complain of quality of Romanian fuel

The quality of fuel sold in Romania has dropped in recent months, leading to a higher number of technical problems, the transporters’ representatives claim, ‘Gandul’ daily informs. “Fuel additives are not respected; we find water in our fuel tanks. The fuel is low-octane fuel, hiking consumption. The fuel has impurities and the filters are full of dirt.

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06-06-2011 - Dacia sales in Turkey up by 71 pc

Renault Mais, the French Group’s producer and distributor in Turkey, has sold 8,625 Dacia cars in the first five months of this year, money.ro informs. That represents a growth of 71 per cent over the same period last year, Renault Mais Director Ibrahim Aybar stated.

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06-06-2011 - Net medium wage up by merely RON 5 in April

The most significant rise was reported in telecommunications, followed by the production and distribution of electric and thermal power.

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06-06-2011 - Fiat offers Canadian Gov’t USD 125 M for its share of Chrysler

With the economy remaining unpredictable at best, Fiat has decided to take a much different route than its counterparts at General Motors when it comes to getting free of government ownership post-bankruptcy.

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06-06-2011 - New CEO with Billa Romania

Sorana Georgia, a professional boasting over 14 years of experience in the retail business, will be, as of July 1, the new CEO of Billa Romania, the company announced, yesterday, by a press release.

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05-06-2011 - Pipera Flyover 60 pc completed

Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu stated on Friday that the Pipera Flyover is approximately 60 per cent completed.

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31-05-2011 - GlaxoSmithKline invests EUR 5 M in Brasov factory

British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has provided, through this year’s budget, investments worth RON 21 M (EUR 5M) for its factory located in Brasov, also for a laboratory that will be completed in 2012, reads the Ziarul Financiar newspaper.

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31-05-2011 - Franklin Templeton buying Petrom shares in bulk

The value of OMV Petrom shares purchased by the administrator of Fondul Proprietatea (FP), Franklin Templeton Investments, on behalf of investment funds other than FP, amounted to over RON 3.7 M (over EUR 900,000) this month alone and to RON 1 M in the course of last week, Money.ro reports.

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30-05-2011 - Increase expected in all activity sectors, statistics body forecasts

Company managers estimate for May-July an activity increase in all sectors – industry, constructions, commerce and services – along with a relative stability or slight growth of the number of employees and a price hike, finds a survey conducted by the National Statistics Institute (INS).

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