{"id":3101,"date":"2024-12-19T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2024-12-19T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:01:04","slug":"romanian-car-rental-group-autonom-buys-30-stake-in-bucharest-taxi-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Romanian car rental group Autonom buys 30% stake in Bucharest taxi firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATM Ventures, the investment division of the car rental group Autonom (with bonds traded at Bucharest Exchange), owned by brothers Marius and Dan \u015etefan, has taken over 30% of the shares of the Meridian Taxi company operating in Bucharest, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/companii\/se-schimba-piata-de-taxi-de-la-ma-retrag-in-berceni-la-tranzactii-22615406?mc_cid=98c2286c28&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction takes place one year after Meridian, under the leadership of its new owner, entrepreneur Dan Boabe\u015f, took a surprise step, completing its fleet of Tesla electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>The investment in Meridian will allow the company to increase the number of cars by 20%, from 1,100 currently, and to renew the car fleet, according to data provided by representatives of both companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A year ago, our effort to change urban mobility for the better officially began with the launch of Blue Romania. We continue with other investments,&#8221; Marius \u015etefan, CEO and founder of Autonom, wrote on Facebook immediately after the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Autonom Group launched a new ridesharing service called Blue at the end of 2023, competing with players such as Uber, Bolt or Elec. The Blue service will be offered through a new company, Blue Technology, established in April 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blue offers customers the option to order only Tesla electric cars, for which there is a dedicated category in the application.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: LinkedIn\/Marius Stefan)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATM Ventures, the investment division of the car rental group Autonom (with bonds traded at Bucharest Exchange), owned by brothers Marius and Dan \u015etefan, has taken over 30% of the shares of the Meridian Taxi company operating in Bucharest, according to Ziarul Financiar. The transaction takes place one year after Meridian, under the leadership of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}