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The PR recognition marked their very successful project for L'Oreal, Bulgarian Red Cross, Danone and Bulgarian Academy of Science

Carmakers in Turkey may be forced to suspend production in May and June because of the supply problems that occur due to lockdowns China is imposing to bring the COVID outbreak under control.

And officially TotalEnergies announced its withdrawal from the hydrocarbon investigations in the two maritime concessions of Crete it had leased three years ago as head of the joint venture with ExxonMobil and Hellenic Petroleum.

CarrefourSA, one of Turkey's largest retailers, plans to add 300 new outlets to its vast network of supermarkets this year.

"Some 250 of the stores will open under the franchising system. In 2022, already 80 such stores were launched by March," said Kutay Kartallığoğlu, the general manager of CarrefourSA.

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s competition watchdog has found Renault Nissan Slovenija and four other companies have been colluding against competition in repair and maintenance of Renault vehicles through a cartel agreement for over ten years. One of the companies has admitted its involvement and provided further evidence in exchange for a milder sentence.

Ljubljana – Overwhelmed with PCR test samples, the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food (HLZOH) started sending part of them to Germany for analysis. The lab Eurofins processes them in 48 hours, which is in line with the new PCR testing protocol which kicked in yesterday.

Ljubljana – Slovenian energy company Petrol ranked ninth by total revenue for 2020 in the SEE TOP 100 ranking of the largest companies in SE Europe, published by business news portal SeeNews. Romanian company Automobile Dacia, a unit of French Renault, was ranked first with EUR 3.8 billion in revenue.

London-based Albanian fashion designer Nensi Dojaka won one of the most prestigious prizes in the fashion industry, the 2021 LVMH prize for emerging talent in fashion design, at a glittering awards ceremony in Paris.

Ljubljana – Slovenia is presenting the framework for its first sustainability bond to investors in a global call on Monday, to be followed by one-on-one calls with interested investors on Tuesday, the Finance Ministry has announced. The issue will depend on the market situation.

The blockchain technology, known until now in the financial industry, will be applied, for the first time, in the Romanian food sector, offering consumers the possibility of discovering information, straight from the farm, regarding the origin and quality of the produce they consume.