A number of 1,565 companies running on foreign capital were established in Romania in the first quarter of 2025, down 6.57% compared to the same period in 2024, according to data centralized by the National Trade Register Office (ONRC), consulted by AGERPRES.

The 1,565 new companies had a subscribed share capital totaling 8.847 million US dollars, down 14.5% compared to the subscribed capital of companies registered in January-March 2024, of 10.228 million US dollars.

In March 2025, 678 companies running on foreign capital were registered, with a subscribed share capital of 3.68 million US dollars. Depending on the fields of activity, the most registrations were recorded in wholesale and retail trade, car and motorcycle repair (31.86% of the total), professional, administrative, scientific and technical activities (10.18% of the total) and telecommunications, programming activities and information technology consultancy (10.03%).

At the end of March 2025, there were 258,875 companies running on foreign capital in Romania. The value of the subscribed capital was 72.056 billion US dollars.

The largest number of companies with foreign participation was with investors from Italy, respectively 54,027 (subscribed capital of 3.67 billion US dollars), but the highest value of the share capital belongs to Dutch companies, respectively 13.2 billion dollars, in 6,247 companies.

AGERPRES