Laurentiu Tulvan is the new industrial director with dairy maker Danone Romania. The company has also appointed Irina Fadeeva as head of the distribution chain.

Nicolas Cage's sequel to the Ghost Rider will most likely have several scenes which will be filmed

Air carrier FlyNiki, owned by Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda and by Air Berlin, will increase the number of flights to and from Bucharest on the Bucharest – Vienna route starting October this year

Renault and Automobile Dacia are midway through works for a new Logan model, which should replace the existing Dacia Logan in 2012, according to Ziarul Financiar. The future Logan generation will be named X52 – the existing one is called X90.

Brian Davies runs and owns part of a company which produces a simple, yet needed commodity: the plastic film wrap which holds together bottles and cans, the one that we all tear apart on the supermarket shelves to get the products we want. This is his day job, he likes to say as a joke to those who know him better as the chairman of the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce. He has talked to Romania Insider about how the company set up business in Romania back in the 90s and about the changes down the road ever since.

Romanian media, Boc goes after the fortunes of businesspeople, the only ones who can pull the country out of the crisis – in Ziarul Financiar, Franks spent over 6 hours at the NBR to discuss on economic revival – in Ziarul Financiar, Dacia close to completing future Logan, codenamed "X52" – in Ziarul Financiar, Top ten insurers made 1,400 employees redundant in a year – in Ziarul Financiar, Romanians get 4bn fiscal receipts a year for food and detergents – in Ziarul Financiar

If you're a pancakes fan, tell your taste buds to prepare for the the Pancakes Festival which will take place in Moneasa between July 31st and August 1st. The organizers of the event plan to prepare as many as 20,000 pancakes, which will be a record-breaking number compared to the previous editions of the festival.

Official unemployment went down in Romania in June this year compared to May, although as many as 70,500 people were officially recorded as unemployed in June, according to data from the National Agency for Workforce Occupancy.

Israeli firm Pointer will provide road assistance service packages for BCR Asigurari's customers in Romania and in the Central Eastern Europe. Pointer, a provider of automatic vehicle location technology, is a subsidiary of Shagrir.

Local charity Ovidiu Rom's already famous Haloween party, which will take place on October 30 this year, will recreate a Prom night from the 50s in the People's Palace location. The ball, which will be at its sixth edition, has used a different theme for each edition.

Overdue loans went up by a whooping 67 percent in the first half of the year in Romania, to around EUR 3.1 billion, according to data recently published by the Romanian Central Bank (BNR).

Shape up you dance moves and get ready to salsa. A Romanian Salsa festival will take place in