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Banca Comerciala Romana SA (BCR SA) is a Romanian universal commercial bank, part of Austrian Erste Bank Group. BCR SA was the largest
bank in terms of total assets in Romania in 2011.
History
Dec 1, 1990 - Romanian
Government establishes
Banca Comerciala
Romana (BCR) SA to
take over the commercial
banking activities
of the National Bank
of Romania. BCR SA is
granted a full banking
licence by the National
Bank of Romania.
1998 - BCR SA sets up
Moldovan subsidiary
BCR Chisinau SA.
NIN: 361757
Legal form: Joint Stock Company
Status: Active
2000 - BCR SA acquires
100% in UK-based bank
Anglo-Romanian Bank
Ltd.
Nov 4, 2003 - Romania’s
privatisation
authority APAPS (now
AVAS) initiates the
privatisation of BCR by
selling joint 25% plus
two shares in the bank
to the European Bank
for Reconstructin and
Development and the
World Bank’s arm the
Address 5, Regina Elisabeta Blvd., Sector 3,
030016 Bucharest, Romania
Website: www.bcr.ro
Banca Comerciala Romana
Board of Directors and Executives
Chairman of the Board and CEO - Tomas Spurny
Member of the Board - Frank Michael Beitz
Member of the Board- Wolfgang Schoiswohl
Member of the Board - Bernd Mittermair
Member of the Board - Sergiu Cristian Manea
Member of the Board - Christian Franz Bruckner
Member of the Board - Martin Skopek
International Finance
Corporation (IFC) for a
combined 222 million
U.S. dollars. Later, AVAS
sold another 8.0% of
BCR SA shares to bank
employees.
July 16, 2005 - The
Romanian Government
invites bidders in a
tender for the privatisation
of up to 62% in
BCR SA.
Dec 21, 2005 - AVAS
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sells 61.88% in BCR to
Austrian bank Erste
Bank der Oesterreishischen
Sparkassen AG
for some 3.75 billion
euro.
Dec 2006 - Erste Group
buys another 7.27%
in BCR, increasing its
stake to 69.15%.
Mar 29, 2007 - BCR
corporate bonds with a
3-year maturity, issued
in 2006, were listed on
Tier II of the Bucharest
Stock Exchange with a
symbol BCR09.
2011 - Erste Group
Bank AG (Erste Group)
acquires a 14.5% stake
in BCR SA through the
issue of 12,300,878 new
shares and a 4.0% stake
in the bank against a
cash payment of 380.7
million lei.
January 2012 - BCR
raises its capital
89.13%
Owners Subsidiaries
10.87%
Others
Tel: +40 21 407 42 00
+40 21 312 00 56; +40 21 310 02 45
Telefaxes: +40 21 313 01 17
E-mails: contact.center@bcr.ro
suport.direct@bcr.ro
investor.relations@bcr.ro
Erste Group Bank
Ceps Holding
GmbH (Austria)
Supervisory Board
Chairman of the Board - Andreas Treichl
Deputy-Chairman of the Board - Manfred Wimmer
Member of the Board - Herbert Juranek
Member of the Board - Bernhard Spalt
Member of the Board - Florin Pogonaru
Member of the Board - Mihai Fercala
Member of the Board - Tudor Ciurezu
by 467.9 million
lei (140 million U.S
dollars/108.2 million
euro) to 1.5 billion lei.
June 2012 - Erste
Group increases its
ownership in BCR to
93.27% from 93.04% or
by 34.5 million shares
following another
share purchase off er to
minority shareholders
in the bank, other than
Romania’s regional
investment funds, the
SIFs.
BCR SA has 14 subsidiaries in Romania, one in
the Netherlands and one in Moldova.