Next March, the man who in 2004 bought theRomanian state's most valuable asset, Petrom, will withdraw fromthe group he has been running for almost ten years. WolfgangRuttenstorfer, OMV's CEO, the best-known head of an internationalcompany in Romania, says Petrom's reshuffling is almost complete,with the Austrians facing a new challenge: Turkey.
Nearing the end of his term, OMV's CEO says his main achievementwas to have turned the group from an Austrian company into aninternational one, with Petrom's acquisition as the cherry ontop.
OMV's CEO was unwilling to say more about his term that is comingto an end, but he wanted to specify his departure from OMV wouldhave an impact over the management of Romanian operations.
Speaking about Romania, the market that practically doubled OMV'sturnover, Ruttenstorfer calls for more optimism, saying 2011 willbring economic growth domestically, too. "I am confident Romaniawill recover in 2011. You entered recession a year after Europeaneconomies and will exit it a year later, but it takes moreoptimism. (...)," said OMV's CEO.
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