The owners of the European Drinks group, brothers Viorel and Ioan Micula, could become business partners with a large construction company in Bistrița-Năsăud. Last weekend, Viorel Micula was spotted studying the real estate complex that MIS Grup is building in Bistrita, near B1 Retail Park.
The Micula brothers, with businesses worth hundreds of millions of euros in various industries but famous for their Frutti Fresh soft drinks and Izvorul Minunilor water, intend to enter the real estate market in Bucharest and Oradea, where they have a total of over 2.5 million. sqm of land, according to the central press. These lands would have been bought before 2007, says the same source, and a first real estate project could start this year in Bucharest.
The visit to the construction site in Bistrita says that the Micula brothers are interested either in the technical solutions adopted by MIS Grup at the block on Calea Moldovei, or they want to enter into a partnership with the Bistrita company to carry out construction works in future projects in Bucharest and Oradea.
Contacted by BistritaBusiness.ro, Petrică Fărcaș, the executive director of MIS Grup, confirmed the visit and the interest of the Micula brothers, and specified that there are incipient discussions for a possible collaboration in the near future.
The Micula brothers won in 2019 the lawsuit filed against the Romanian State, which was obliged to pay 400 million euros in damages for revoking the incentives granted for investments in disadvantaged areas. In addition, entrepreneurs advise a Swedish investment fund that wants to invest in Romania.
