Brian Davies, BRCC chairman: ‘When friends ask me why do I go to Romania once a month, I say: to visit my money’

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. By Corina Saceanu When Brian Davies first came to Romania, in 1996, “people were still looking down, there was a lot of gray, there was almost no color. The absence of things to cover basic necessities was quite evident,” he remembers. Two years later, when he was recruiting a sales manager for the shrink firm business, which Sanders Polyfilms was planning to expand in the country, Brian Davies wanted to know if he could do business the Western way in the country and whether he would ever get his money back from this investment.

Years later, “when friends ask me why do I go to Romania once a month, I say: to visit my money,” he says laughing.