VAN GOGH SPACES

Café – Classy Event Rooms – Wine Bar & Shop

Be it business or leisure, The Van Gogh Spaces help you make the most of your time!

In a 1900s renovated building in the heart of the Old City Centre of Bucharest, the Dutch investor responsible for the Rembrandt Hotel and the former Amsterdam Café opened a new business last October.

Van Gogh Grand Café was the first of the Spaces to be open. A cozy and relaxed neighborhood café with a slightly intellectual touch, good music and original menu – the place of choice for coffee & a newspaper in the morning, business lunch meetings during the day and chatty drinks with friends in the evening,.

Walking down the stairs from the Café one finds the century old vault room turned Wine & Art Bar. With an extensive selection of wines for both tasting and buying, it is a space for those who enjoy taste-full and smoke-free experiences.

If you choose to go up, the 1^st floor will surprise you with De Regent and De Tulp, 2 classy rooms for events of all shapes and sizes – from private dinners to conferences to cocktails for over 100 people. You might recognize these rooms as the venue of the traditional monthly Dutch Drinks.

Exclusive offer for NRCC member – 100& discount on rent for the first event organized at Van Gogh Spaces.

Do come by for a cup of coffee and a tour!

http://www.vangogh.ro/

info@vangogh.ro

9^th Smardan Street

 

 

Cluj-Napoca, February 2010: Evalueserve, the world’s largest Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) company, doubled the number of employees at its European research centre last year and plans to continue its growth in 2010.

The office in Romania operates in Cluj-Napoca and brings together analysts from nine countries (Sweden, Germany, India, Latvia, Russia, Republic of Moldova, Poland, France and Romania), all of them specialising in different fields and covering 13 language capabilities.

Pushkar Chatterji, Country Head of Evalueserve Romania, says: ‘Despite the current economic situation, Evalueserve’s Romania office has doubled in size in 2009. This has been driven by the quality of the research that we provide and the value that we are able to offer our clients. We are able to deliver research in German to our clients in German-speaking Europe and in French to our clients in French-speaking Europe. Being within the EU, we are also able to offer data privacy as per the Data Protection Directive of the EU as well as near-shore and on-shore options to our European clients. These factors help us put together a comprehensive offering to clients.’

The centre in Cluj-Napoca facilitates communication and delivery of services to European clients and further reduces the time gap between other offices, ensuring seamless 24x5 operations. The delivery centre conducted 228 projects for 65 clients in 2009, with 85% of clients returning for recurring work.

Evalueserve set up in Cluj-Napoca is located at the crossroad of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, giving it diversity in terms of foreign language speakers. The presence of nine established universities and more than 100,000 students in Cluj provides the benefit of a rich talent pool. Strong local economic growth, along with international accessibility, will continue to result in new global business opportunities in the region.

About Evalueserve

Evalueserve provides custom research and analytics services to aglobalclient base of Global 5000 companies, Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms, Law Firms, VC Firms, Intellectual PropertyFirms, and Consultingand ResearchFirms in the following areas – Financial and Investment Research, Business Research,Market Research, Intellectual Property, ExpertNetwork, Data Analytics and Modelling and Knowledge Technology Services. We currently have over 2000 professionals in our research centres in Delhi-Gurgaon (India), Shanghai (China), Santiago-Valparaiso (Chile), and Cluj (Romania). Additionally, our 65 client engagement managers are located in all major technology, business, and financial centres globally. For more details, please visit http://www.evalueserve.com/

Evalueserve Media Relations

European Research Centre (Romania)

Anastasia Moga
+ 40 364 730 321
anastasia.moga@evalueserve.com

 

 

Den Braven Romania: A successful business model in financial crisis

Polyurethane foams and adhesives factory in Romania of the Dutch company Den Braven is definitely a winning bet of the group leaders, especially in terms of global economic crisis. The exceptional results registered in only one year and a half of the production unit of Den Braven Romania, inaugurated in 2008 following a total investment of 15 million euros, also the prospects of development for short and long term, support the idea that a well thought business can operate in all conditions, even in the context of a global financial crisis.

 

"I believe that the managers of Den Braven group can be very proud of the investment in the factory in Romania, currently performing the most modern standards of performance. The production unit of Den Braven is a good example for the Dutch investors’ success in Romania”, said Nuria Simón Artigas, Executive Director of the Netherlands-Romanian Chamber of Commerce.

 

In 2007, the leaders of Den Braven group chose Romania for making this investment as a result of growing demand on this market, significantly higher than the one in Germany. Located near Bucharest, in Buftea village, the factory produces an extensive range of polyurethane foams, adhesives and hotmelt, and currently exports to 25 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia, export sales of Den Braven Romania advancing in the first six months about 30%.

"In October 1997, we founded Den Braven Romania, with 5 people, at this time we employ over 200 people, we have 9 branches and one of the best distribution networks. It is amazing that 10 months after purchasing the land, we produced the first cans and 5 months later we are here all present for the official opening. The big success for Den Braven Romania came when we appointed Adrian State as General Manager in 2001, bringing us loyalty, honesty and a new style of management with new strategies”, said Mr. Kees den Braven, the president of Den Braven Group.

 

Currently, Den Braven is leader on polyurethane foam Romanian market, with a rate of 45%, also for hotmelt site, where it has a market share over 50%. With a turnover of 33 million euros in 2008, the company aims the extension on other international markets too, after that this year a contract for seven million euros for starting export of hotmelt in United Kingdom, was signed. Moreover, superior quality products made in Romania attracted quickly the interest of many international clients, raising the share of exports to about 70%.

 

Here's how, in a difficult period in which firms in the construction field drastically reduce their sales or even are closed, we can talk about situations in which business can be successful. And the story Den Braven is one of them.