The number of start-ups established on foreign capital in Romania dropped by 41.41% in H1 2020 from H1 2019, to 1,674 units, according to data centralised by the National Companies Registry Office (ONRC).
As of June 30, 2020, the largest number of companies running on foreign capital - 49,168 (3.846 billion US dollars subscribed capital) was operated by Italian investors, but the largest value of share capital belongs to Dutch companies - 12.749 billion US dollars in 5,462 of companies.
In June, 228 foreign companies were registered, with a subscribed capital of 1.41 million US dollars.
Most of the registered companies operate in wholesale and retail trade, car and motorcycle repairs - 31.14% of the total; professional, administrative, scientific and technical activities - 23.25% and transport, storage and communications - 12.71%.
At the end of June 2020, there were 228,566 companies in Romania running on foreign share capital. The value of the subscribed capital was 63.802 billion US dollars.