Romania

The Local Centre "Aventura" Gaesti, a branch of the National Organization of Romanian Scouts, started its activity in November 2001. Its scouts are active in various fields, such as exploring and discovering wild life, environment protection, civic education (practicing the democracy experience), culture (knowledge about ethnical minorities culture, acting jointly with disadvantaged people), social activities (informative campaigns, community projects). It has more than 60 volunteer members.

The GERMANOS group is the regional leader on the mobile technology retail market. Present in 4 countries, with more than 800 shops internationally, GERMANOS - part of the COSMOTE group - has assumed the mission to connect regular consumers with the mobile technology. In Romania, GERMANOS is present since 1996. At this day, the chain of GERMANOS stores has reached a number of more than 230 stores in Romania, being present in more than 100 cities.

Devin AD entered Romanian market in May 2008 with Devin spring water and mineral water. It is a Bulgaria-based company. The main subject of the company's activity is bottling and sale of mineral water, spring water, flavoured waters and carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks. Devin AD is a leader on the market of bottled water in Bulgaria with a market share of 30%, in 2007. In Bulgaria, Devin AD employs more than 470 people.

Holcim (Romania) S.A. currently owns and operates 3 cement plants, in Turda (grinding), Campulung and Alesd, 16 environmentally-friendly ready-mixed concrete plants, and 5 aggregates plants. Holcim (Romania) S.A. currently has approximately 1,400 employees and is part of the Holcim Group. The website of the company is www.holcim.ro.

Vesta Investment is a manufacturing company, specialized in production of safety and signalization items, as: road signs, beacons, cones, speed bumps, separators, reflective markers, delineator posts, warning triangles, first aid kits, identification plates, ADR components etc. With a turnover more than 10 million euro in 2007 and more than 200 employers, Vesta Investment is one of the biggest in its field from Central and Eastern Europe.

National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) is a professional public organization established by merger of travel agents and tour-operators in order to protect their interests and represent Romanian travel business worldwide. ANAT has almost 800 full and affiliated members, and 16 employees. The members are travel agencies or entities from tourism: flight companies and transport companies, rent-a-car companies, hotel and restaurants networks, publishing-houses, booking systems, organizations and associations from tourism domain.

"Autoshow" magazine, published by Burda Romania (member of Hubert Burda Media, an international media group has 188 magazines in 13 countries), is infotainment (an entertainment and an information magazine) that presents news from Romanian and International car market, new models, events, drive tests, interviews, spy pictures, tuning articles, auto shows, car lovers, prices and quotations etc. It is a fortnightly magazine, with a circulation of 16,000 issues and a readership of 150 000 readers/issue.

121.ro is a women’s portal designed to assist Romanian women in almost every area that concerns them. 121.ro has now over 101.000 members, with 83% women. The company has 8 employees.

 

CN Posta Romana SA is the national operator in postal services. The company is owned by the Romanian state, represented by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (75% of stock actions) and "Proprietatea" Fund (25% of stock actions). Posta Romana has a network of 7,100 national postal units, distributing over 8,5 mailings weekly. The company has 35,000 employees, 1,126 cars and 36 scooters.

Road Accidents Victims Association of Romania is a non-governmental organization with the general objectives to offer support for traffic accidents victims and their relatives, to cooperate with other entities for promoting educational programs in road safety and to raise awareness on this issue, to help on develop the Romanian legislation to meet European standards and to implement at national level best international practices in this field. The Association has 2,200 members at national level.