BCR Group posted a net profit of EUR 117 million in the first half of the year, down by 19.5 percent compared to the same period of last year, the group has announced. The decrease was mainly due “on much higher provision expense due the contracting economy heavily impacting the market and BCR’s customers demand,” according to the company.

Grup Servicii Petroliere's shareholders have approved a USD 20 million revolving credit facility from Eximbank. The loan was contracted on a year.

Main headlines from Romanian and international media for Friday, July 30, 2010

Events during the week-end July 30-August 1st, in Bucharest

Events during the week-end July 30 - August 1, at the seaside and on in the mountain area

The Anonimul Film Festival, which will start on August 9 in Sfantu Gheorghe, in Delta Dunarii, will feature a movie which was included in the official competition in Cannes this year – Certified Copy, with Juliette Binoche playing the main character. (Trailer below) A second film, Temple Grandin, with 15 nominations at the Emmy Awards, will also be screened in the Anonimul Film festival (trailer below)

Movies opening this week-end in Bucharest and in major Romanian cities. Movie trailers

Romania's newly launched tourism communication campaign aims at increasing the number of local and international tour operators which sell Romania as a tourist destination, as well as the number of local and international tourists which would recommend the country for tourism.

Carmaker Automobile Dacia has delivered a car fleet made of 46 Duster cars to telecom operator Orange Romania. The car fleet will be used by Orange's technical department for its telecom network repairing and for rapid interventions.

The Bucharest Museum in Universitate Square will host the second edition of the Health Living Fair, which will start tomorrow and will end on Sunday, August 1st. The museum's yard will be the exhibition and sales area for Romanian traditional products, Bio products from Italy, France, Spain, as well as Italian traditional food products.

Online retailer eMag.ro has sold over 240 products which were mistakenly discounted by more than ten times, due to a website technical error, the company's manager Radu Apostolescu wrote on the firm's website. The mistake has a cost of around RON 132,000 (the equivalent of around EUR 31,000) for eMag.ro, which has decided to validate the sales even so.

Telecom operator Vodafone has signed agreements with advertising sales companies to sell targeted advertising on the mobile versions of websites, introducing a new feature, based on each user's profile characteristics, Vodafone has announced. The mobile advertising service, which is called AdPlus, uses several profile criteria, such as the potential revenues, age, sex, location or the type of mobile phone used to view a certain website.