{"id":3650,"date":"2025-02-10T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2025-02-10T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:59:41","slug":"frieslandcampina-reportedly-seeks-buyer-for-romanian-subsidiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"FrieslandCampina reportedly seeks buyer for Romanian subsidiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch multinational dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina is reportedly seeking a buyer for its Romanian subsidiaries, a deal that, if completed, would reach EUR 60-70 million, according to sources quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/eveniment\/surse-grupul-olandez-frieslandcampina-proprietarul-celui-cunoscut-22684718?mc_cid=25ab111e92&amp;mc_eid=607bd7d763\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FrieslandCampina, active in Romania since 2000, gained a significant position in 2004 when it took over local brand Napolact.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s turnover exceeded EUR 110 million in 2022-2023, while its profit remained close to zero (positive or negative) after an average annual net profit of EUR 4 million in each of the previous four years when the turnover ranged within EUR 90-96 million band.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FrieslandCampina owns the brands Napolact, Campina, Milli, Ok\u00e9, and Dots, and its range of products includes drinking milk, yogurt, cheese, butter, and milk-based snacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FrieslandCampina operates two production units near Cluj-Napoca (at Baciu)\u00a0and in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219, while its headquarters are located in Bucharest. Its personnel decreased below 500 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources familiar with the market consulted by Ziarul Financiar, among the companies interested in acquiring the dairy producer are Hungary&#8217;s Sole-Mizo, part of the Bonafarm group, as well as the French group Danone. Vertically-integrated Bonafarm group, also including leading pork brand Pick, is controlled by the family of the Hungarian billionaire S\u00e1ndor Cs\u00e1nyi, who is the president of the OTP banking group.<\/p>\n<p>While Danone has a production unit in Bucharest, Sole-Mizo imports and distributes its products on the local market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo:\u00a0FrieslandCampina warehouse from company)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch multinational dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina is reportedly seeking a buyer for its Romanian subsidiaries, a deal that, if completed, would reach EUR 60-70 million, according to sources quoted by Ziarul Financiar. FrieslandCampina, active in Romania since 2000, gained a significant position in 2004 when it took over local brand Napolact. The company&#8217;s turnover exceeded EUR [&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-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","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=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}