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Forbes: Anca Vlad, President of Fildas-Catena, awarded at the Remarkable Women’s Gala

21.06.2022

Anca Vlad, founder and president of Fildas-Catena Group, was awarded at the Remarkable Women’s Gala, organized by Forbes Romania & Kultho and held in the magnificent setting of the Throne Room of the Royal Palace, National Art Museum of Romania, a location that highlighted once again the importance and elegance of the event. 


Anca Vlad, together with Alina Marinescu, General Manager of Catena, and Otilia Ostrotki, General Manager of Tonica Group

At its second edition, the Remarkable Women’s  Gala continues the tradition started last year, to award and honor the most important and influential women in Romania, who are authentic and powerful models of the Romanian society in the business, artistic, sports and social environment.  

Raluca Michailov, Owner Forbes Romania and CEO of BP Publishing Media, said that “the awarded ladies are examples of inspiration, perseverance, talent, personality, innovation and entrepreneurship”.

The Remarkable Women’s Gala highlighted the achievements and performances through which the laureates managed to stand out, the courage shown, the perseverance and values worthy of respect that they promote in society.

“Anca Vlad is one of the first women to bet on entrepreneurship immediately after the Revolution, who laid the foundations of Fildas network, in 1991, network which represented the core around which the Fildas-Catena group has developed” – said the speakers about the first laureate of the evening.

“About building a top business she confessed that <<the most important capital of the company is trust. We have a very good reputation in the Romanian and international market and this is also due to the education I have received in school and in the companies I have worked for>>. After more than 30 years, Anca Vlad is managing the largest pharmaceutical distribution and retail group in Romania!”

Anca Vlad was also rewarded last year, at the first edition of the Gala, with the Award for conduct and exceptional results in entrepreneurship and art.

The Remarkable Women’s Gala has successfully combined the artistic, social and business environment in Romania, managing to create an unforgettable event, which celebrated women who excel in their fields of activity, heroines of everyday life, artists and sportswomen with impressive careers, women leading companies successfully and towards success.

Here are the laureates, in the order of the awards, of the Remarkable Women’s Gala, 2nd edition:

  • Anca Vlad, President Fildas – Catena Group
  • Maria Lucia Hohan, fashion designer
  • Irina Rimes, pop singer
  • Dana Dima Demetrian, Vice-President Retail & Private Banking BCR
  • Ramona Jurubiţă, Country Managing Partner KPMG Romania
  • Roxana Voloşeniuc,  Editor in chief & Publisher ELLE Romania
  • Mioara Velicu,  folk music singer
  • Anca Damour, Partner & CEO, D Craig Real Estate
  • Elisabeta Moraru, CEO Google Romania
  • Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, actress
  • Luchi Georgescu, business woman
  • Malvina Cervenschi, jewelry designer
  • Mihaela Geoană, President, “Renașterea” Foundation
  • Fulga Dinu, Country Manager Operations – Immofinanz Romania
  • Elisabeta Lipă, President, National Rowing Federation
  • Ana Maria Doxan, Business Executive Officer – Nespresso Romania

ZF: Entrepreneur Anca Vlad led the Catena-Fildas Group to a total turnover of EUR 2 billion in 2021

16.06.2022

The Catena-Fildas Group in 2021 reached a total turnover of EUR 2 billion from drugstores and distribution, rising by 8% year-on-year, according to ZF calculations based on data provided by the company, reads an article published by Ziarul Financiar.

“2020 promises to be a year filled with challenges, the volatility characteristic to the last two years of pandemic being now amplified by the effects of the rampant inflation we are facing”, said the representatives of the pharmaceutical group. However, expansion and strengthening are still in the plan of Catena-Fildas management, for both the pharmacy chain and the drug distributor, the publication mentions.

Overall, Catena had at the end of 2021 a network of 900 drugstores at national level, and Fildas has 15 drug warehouses across the country. Over 8,100 people are working in total in the pharmaceutical group, in the two retail and drug distribution divisions.

Fildas-Catena is a group built over the past three decades by entrepreneur Anca Vlad and is one of the most powerful entrepreneurial businesses in Romania, ZF added.

Anca Vlad, President of Fildas-Catena, has been elected in the European Family Businesses Board

23.06.2021

Anca Vlad, President of the Fildas-Catena Group, was unanimously elected as member of the Executive Committee of the European Family Business Federation, an organization based in Brussels.


Anca Vlad, together with the family business representatives from the Family Business Network

The President of Fildas-Catena is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Family Business Network Romania, as the first representative of the Romanian entrepreneurs to be elected in the Board of a significant European lobbying organization in favor of entrepreneurship.  Anca Vlad will hold the new position within the European Family Businesses until 2023, when a new term re-election is available.

“We are thrilled to announce that Anca Vlad is the newest member of our Executive Committee. Mrs. Vlad brings with her a rich experience and a valuable perspective in the business community, vital for the fight to raise awareness of the importance of family businesses and their position in Europe, especially in the difficult post-COVID pandemic period, said Udo Vetter, President of European Family Businesses.

“A first-generation owner, Mrs. Vlad founded her own pharmaceutical business, the Fildas-Catena Group, in 1991. A prominent personality in the Romanian business world, the entrepreneurial activity of Mrs. Anca Vlad was recognized and valued by awarding numerous prizes. In 2019 only, Mrs. Vlad was recognized as “The Most Powerful Businesswoman” in Romania at the Capital Gala, “The Most Influential Business Personality” in Romania at the Forbes Gala and ranked the 1st place in the Top 50 Women in Economics, awarded by the National Confederation for Female Entrepreneurs (CONAF), within the Gala Women in Economy”, mentions the European Family Businesses website

European Family Businesses is the leading networking and lobbying organization for entrepreneurs and comprises 15 national organizations representing the interests of the most important family-owned businesses in Europe before the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament.

Family Business Network Romania (FBN Romania), the representative association of large Romanian family businesses, founded in 2012 and member of European Family Businesses since 2015, includes 27 companies, with a total turnover of about 2.5 billion euros and over 18,000 employees.

“Romanians developing Romania” – a journalistic endeavour about the most important Romanian entrepreneurs

12.08.2017

With its second edition, the annual “Romanians developing Romania” focuses once again on the strongest Romanian entrepreneurs, those who, by their business and brands, constitute points of reference for Romanian economic and social life.

“Romanians developing Romania” is an Intact Media Group project, which presents 100 Romanians and their business, which incur value to the national economy, thus having a decisive contribution to the development of this country.

“Talking about the people that have succeeded is vital to the health of society. Yes, they have succeeded in constructing something which, in the eyes of the majority, translates into fortune or fame, but, in fact, this is about a construction that contributes to the wellbeing of a larger group”, stated Alessandra Stoicescu, Executive Manager of the publication, in the editorial opening this publication.

This is not about the richest, nor about the most influential Romanians, but about those Romanians “who develop Romania through the workplaces they created, through the potential provided to the areas where they started their businesses, through the higher taxes they pay to the state in proportion to the turnovers”, according to the text substantiating this journalistic endeavour.

The substantiation of the journalists who put together the catalogue added: “We have discovered discrete entrepreneurs, upon whom an entire community relies. We have discovered entrepreneurs who, in the ruthless war with the multinationals, have won. And we have discovered entrepreneurs who pay monthly wages to thousands of people”.

The second most important Romanian entrepreneur, after the Paval brothers – the founders and owners of Dedeman, in the catalogue “Romanians developing Romania” is Anca Vlad, the strongest woman-entrepreneur in Romania. The journalists of Intact Media Group write about Anca Vlad that she has consolidated her position as a leader in the pharmaceutical retail sector, the companies she created totalling, in 2015, a turnover of 2.986 billion RON.

The main criterion in establishing the hierarchy of the entrepreneurs was the aggregate turnover of the businesses they conduct, according to the financial data available from the Ministry and Finance and the Trade Register, therefore the reference year was 2015. Only companies that are 100% Romanian were included, considering the shareholders, as well as the operations.

Anca Vlad – an entrepreneur and more

The journalists of Intact Media Group write that “Anca Vlad is, perhaps, the best-known business woman in Romania, the founder of the distribution company Fildas Trading, as well as of the Catena pharmacy chain, the market leader in the industry. After a considerable advance of business in the year 2015, Fildas Trading became, in 2016, the most important Romanian company in the pharmaceutical area, and one of the top five companies with domestic private capital. In the first year, the number of employees has grown by more than 100 persons, reaching 860, while the turnover exceeded 500 million euro, the most dynamic among all market players.

With such numbers, extension is the signal word. The investment plan of the company Fildas Trading includes the construction of a logistic centre at Iasi, the development of the logistic capacities in Bucharest and Cluj, as well as the extension and upgrade of the offices held in Bucharest.

The Catena pharmacy chain, the driver of the business, exceeded 620 units at country level last year, and the entrepreneur emphasized that this expansion still continues. The Catena brand was created in 1999, at the time when Filas Trading took over the majority of shares in the company Argesfarm.

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Anca Vlad is also the founding president of the Local Investor Employers’ Association (PIAROM), in which capacity she actively promoted and supported several initiatives and projects oriented towards improving the business environment in Romania. Thus, PIAROM supported the first survey dedicated to the Romanian private capital, a study which indicated that the year 2015 was a historical year for the competitiveness of Romanian companies, which acquired profits of more than 40 billion RON, against the background of an aggregated turnover of 551 billion RON.

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As First Vice-President of the National Confederation of Romanian Employers (CNPR), Anca Vlad has repeatedly stated the Romanian authorities should pay more attention to the domestic capital, as this represents the most important driver of Romanian economic growth.

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Over the years, the companies established by Anca Vlad have become involved in ample actions for the prevention and information of the population, in activities promoting a healthy lifestyle, as well as in various social and relief campaigns. (…).”, according to the journalists who completed the catalogue.

Press conference of the Romanian Businesspeople Association (AOAR): The current personnel crisis could be solved by encouraging young mothers to return to work with half of the value of the benefit, plus the salary

07.08.2017

Ziarul Financiar and TVR1 reflected an event organized in mid-July, by the Romanian Businesspeople Association (AOAR), whereby the entrepreneurs ask the government managed by prime-minister Mihai Tudose to adopt a set of measures encouraging investments and supporting the development of companies with Romanian private capital.

According to Mrs. Anca Vlad, Vice-President of AOAR, the current legislation on maternity benefit and leave (a benefit which is currently 85% of the net income, and the leave of up to 2 years) affects the companies’ business plans: “We are facing a personnel crisis which is emphasized by the fact that very many persons go on parental leave, with the elimination of the ceiling on the benefit granted to the mothers. We made a calculation, and if an employee with an income of RON 2,000 per month, who is granted a benefit amounting to RON 1,700, were encouraged to return to work for half of the benefit value, plus the salary, the state would gain over RON 600 per month, and also we, as employers, would be gaining.”

“We cannot change taxes all the time and play with them. We need to reach a decision, a good decision, and then to implement it and to know that we can count on it for 10 years”, Anca Vlad pointed out.

The measures proposed by AOAR also include the fiscal consolidation of the groups of companies with Romanian capital, so that they are granted the same fiscal treatment as the multinational companies, which consolidate their revenues in their mother countries. Such a measure could, according to the businesspeople, turn Romania into a regional hub for investments. Another proposition advanced by AOAR is the implementation of the reverse charge on VAT between companies, to eliminate VAT fraud.

(the complete material is published on www.zf.ro)

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