October 22 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Romanian media on Thursday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
ZIARUL FINANCIAR
- ArcelorMittal Galati, a unit of steel giant ArcelorMittal, is working at 60% of its capacity and plans to send some of its workers on forced leave for 10 days, the unit's CEO Thierry Le Gall said. He added that the company's sales dropped by an annual 70% in the first half of 2009.
- Romania is the sole country in central and eastern Europe where retail sales will continue to grow in 2009, by an estimated 3.0%, a PricewaterhouseCoopers research showed. It also indicated that Ukraine is the most affected country in the region with an estimated 12.1% fall in retail sales this year.
- Romanian pasta producer Pangram Resita has opened a unit in Serbia following 800,000 euro investment and expects exports to reach 25% of company's turnover in the next two years, company's director general Ioan Popa said.
MEDIAFAX
- Romanian government has revised upward this year's gross profit forecast for one of the capital's two international airports, Baneasa Airport, to 27.05 million lei from 6.88 million lei forecast earlier, Transport Minister Radu Berceanu said. The government forecasts a 15.4% rise in income and a 9.8% fall in costs.
BUSINESS STANDARD
- Romanian pension fund manager Allianz-Tiriac Pensii Private has reduced its share capital to 29.99 million lei from 350 million lei by cutting the nominal value of its shares to 8.6 lei from 100 lei, after recording losses on all investments, the daily quoted news agency NewsIn.
(1 euro=4.2926 Romanian lei)