Hilton Hotel has been deprived of rating


The Hilton Hotel, owned in Bucharest by George Copos, was deprived from rating, following that Elena Udrea’s staff started to analyze it. The Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel, in Bucharest, has recently lost its five – star rating. A control from Ministry of Tourism found out that the accommodation unit functions on the basis of a new commercial company, which was not declared within the legal deadline and which suspends the authorizations initially received. The representatives of the hotel must prepare not a new rating file, but considering that the hotel has no more parking places, it shall not receive the five – star rating any longer, but maximum four. The parking issued emerged when Bucharest City Hall terminated all the contracts with Dalli company, addressing 11 parking places in Bucharest, among which the places in front of Hilton. Sorin Oprescu canceled the contract on space rental that had been concluded between Ana Hotels, George Copos’s company, and Dalli, a company that was owned by Dorin Cocos, husband of Tourism Minister, Elena Udrea. Left without parking places and not benefiting from understanding at municipality, George Copos started a lawsuit against the City Hall.


Water Park Otopeni, EUR 150,000 invested in upgrading


The additional renovation and equipping of the aquatic amusement park Water Park Otopeni required an investment amounting to EUR 150,000, as the business portal dailybusiness.ro says, which cites a declaration by the marketing manager of the company owning the location, Agerpres informs. Based on the cited source, the investment included electronic games rooms, re-decoration of the children playgrounds and a new aquatic toboggan. During the summer season of 2008, Water Park registered an average number of 3,000 visitors over the week end and nearly 1,000 clients per day during the week, which resulted in a profit amounting to EUR 830,000.Water Park Otopeni can accommodate 4,000 persons, it stretches over 10,000 square meters, the entry fares being RON 50, during week ends, and RON 30 during the week.


Nokia to launch the phone whose battery never discharges


The researchers from Nokia are close to revolutionizing the mobile phone segment by designing a prototype whose accumulator works non stop, according to the portal technologyreview.com, cited by Agepres. According to Markkn Rouvala, an expert at Nokia Research Center from Cambridge, UK, the new device shall be able to capture the electromagnetic radiations issued by Wi-FI transmitters, the aerials of the mobile phones, TV aerials or other similar terminals, which are to be converted into electricity, and this will feed wireless the batteries of Nokia phones. The capturing power shall be 50 milli -watts, which is ten times more than in case of the current prototype developed by the Finn producer, which assimilates 3 to 5 milli-watts. In time, energy collection has been used only in the niche markets, charging wireless sensors or RFID chips.


AB InBev to divest central Europe operations


The world’s largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is considering divesting its central European operations involving 11 breweries in seven countries, Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported on Saturday. AB InBev sold its South Korean subsidiary Oriental Brewery to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. last month for $1.8 billion, as part of a move to repay debt incurred in the $52 billion purchase of Anheuser-Busch. The paper said 11 breweries producing a total of 15 million hectolitres of beer a year in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, were part of a “packaged” deal to be sold as a whole. A spokesman for AB InBev declined to comment. Le Soir said the brewer of Budweiser, Stella and Beck’s beer was divesting its central European operations considered as fragmented and non-strategic, to focus on its north and south American operations. Barclays is advising the company on the deal and at least one private equity firm CVC Partners, is mentioned as interested in the deal, Le Soir reported in its weekend edition.


Chevrolet sales in Romania, 22.9 pc advance in May


Chevrolet sales in Romania were by 22.9 per cent higher in May than in April, according to a press release issued by General Motors Southeast Europe, Agerpres informs. Within Western Europe, over the first four months of 2009, Chevrolet market share advanced by 0.27 per cent, compared to the same time period of the previous year, up to 1.27 per cent. The small and attractive models from Chevrolet, Spark and Aveo, were much appreciated by the clients looking for new vehicles. “Currently, clients look for those units that provide value for money. In fact, this is Chevrolet philosophy. This is the reason because of which clients throughout Europe have chosen Chevrolet over a record number, in the past few years. I am very optimist about our future, mainly when I look at Chevrolet Cruze and at other new and appealing products which we prepare”, according to Wayne Brannon, CEO of Chevrolet Europe.