Following performances at festivals like Rockslide, Werchter, Lowlands, Pinkpop, Coachella, Sziget and even the local B'estfest, Manu Chao will be back to Bucharest with a concert part of the La Ventura world tour. Manu Chao will perform this spring on the Palace Hall stage, on April 16, a concert that will contain all his hits in recent years.

Romanian exports of IT products and services grew by 10 percent in 2010, to around EUR 500 million, according to Valerica Dragomir, executive manager of the Software and Services Industry Employers' Association (ANIS).

Brazilian Saulo Spaolanse is the new country president of Schneider Electric Romania, the company has announced. He will replace David Nicholl, who went to lead Schneider's operations in Sweden.

Cocor Shopping Center's media facade brought the shopping center revenues of EUR 1.7 million last year, the company has announced. The revenues from outdoor publicity were 30 percent higher than in 2009. In December last year alone, the media facade brought the store EUR 400,000 in advertising revenues.

Shakira has added Bucharest on the list of cities in her current world tour The Sun Comes Out. She will perform in...

English musician and songwriter Sting will perform in Bucharest on June 6, part of his worldwide tour Symphonicity. Sting will be accompanied by a live band and a symphonic orchestra in a show which will take place in Constitutiei Square in the Romanian capital city.

Telecom operators Romtelecom and Cosmote Romania could merge before Romtelecom's listing on the stock exchange, which would diminish the Romanian state's share participation in the company, according to Romanian Communication Minister Valerian Vreme.

International Automotive Components Group (IAC), one of the components suppliers for Ford Motor Company, will this week start works on its greenfield production unit in Bals, Olt county. The investment in this project will reach EUR 58 million. The factory should hire 400 people, when fully operational. It will produce various components for Ford's car production in Craiova.

Romanians younger than 35 who want to start a micro-company can submit business plans starting Tuesday to a program supporting young entrepreneurs, and receive up to EUR 10,000 of the value of their planned business. The program was allotted a budget of EUR 4.9 million this year.

Real estate advisory company DTZ Echinox posted a EUR 2.8 million turnover in 2010, slightly up from EUR 2.65 million in 2009. Its profit rate stood at 6 percent. The company estimates a EUR 3.2 million turnover and a 10 percent profit rate for 2011.

Following performances at festivals like Rockslide, Werchter, Lowlands, Pinkpop, Coachella, Sziget and even the local B'estfest, Manu Chao will be back to Bucharest with a concert part of the La Ventura world tour. Manu Chao will perform this spring on the Palace Hall stage, on April 16, a concert that will contain all his hits in recent years.

Romanian exports of IT products and services grew by 10 percent in 2010, to around EUR 500 million, according to Valerica Dragomir, executive manager of the Software and Services Industry Employers' Association (ANIS).

Brazilian Saulo Spaolanse is the new country president of Schneider Electric Romania, the company has announced. He will replace David Nicholl, who went to lead Schneider's operations in Sweden.

Cocor Shopping Center's media facade brought the shopping center revenues of EUR 1.7 million last year, the company has announced. The revenues from outdoor publicity were 30 percent higher than in 2009. In December last year alone, the media facade brought the store EUR 400,000 in advertising revenues.

Shakira has added Bucharest on the list of cities in her current world tour The Sun Comes Out. She will perform in...

English musician and songwriter Sting will perform in Bucharest on June 6, part of his worldwide tour Symphonicity. Sting will be accompanied by a live band and a symphonic orchestra in a show which will take place in Constitutiei Square in the Romanian capital city.

Telecom operators Romtelecom and Cosmote Romania could merge before Romtelecom's listing on the stock exchange, which would diminish the Romanian state's share participation in the company, according to Romanian Communication Minister Valerian Vreme.

International Automotive Components Group (IAC), one of the components suppliers for Ford Motor Company, will this week start works on its greenfield production unit in Bals, Olt county. The investment in this project will reach EUR 58 million. The factory should hire 400 people, when fully operational. It will produce various components for Ford's car production in Craiova.

Romanians younger than 35 who want to start a micro-company can submit business plans starting Tuesday to a program supporting young entrepreneurs, and receive up to EUR 10,000 of the value of their planned business. The program was allotted a budget of EUR 4.9 million this year.

Real estate advisory company DTZ Echinox posted a EUR 2.8 million turnover in 2010, slightly up from EUR 2.65 million in 2009. Its profit rate stood at 6 percent. The company estimates a EUR 3.2 million turnover and a 10 percent profit rate for 2011.