Media Appearances

Media Appearances Ziarul Financiar: “Local entrepreneurs. The Fildas-Catena Group, controlled by Anca Vlad, reached 14 billion lei cumulative business from distribution and pharmacies in 2023”
Ziarul Financiar: “Local entrepreneurs. The Fildas-Catena Group, controlled by Anca Vlad, reached 14 billion lei cumulative business from distribution and pharmacies in 2023”
Article published in the print edition of Ziarul Financiar on May 22, 2024: “The Fildas-Catena Group, the largest player in the pharmaceutical market, created by entrepreneur Anca Vlad three decades...
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Media Appearances Anca Vlad, at the EFB Summit: Family businesses are affected by the massive wave of EU regulations
Anca Vlad, at the EFB Summit: Family businesses are affected by the massive wave of EU regulations
Romanian family businesses were represented at the 2022 European Family Businesses Summit, a large-scale event, organized in Berlin, between June 13-14, 2022, by the Family Business Network Romania Association. Anca...
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Media Appearances Forbes: Anca Vlad, President of Fildas-Catena, awarded at the Remarkable Women’s Gala
Forbes: Anca Vlad, President of Fildas-Catena, awarded at the Remarkable Women’s Gala
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...
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Media Appearances ZF: Entrepreneur Anca Vlad led the Catena-Fildas Group to a total turnover of EUR 2 billion in 2021
ZF: Entrepreneur Anca Vlad led the Catena-Fildas Group to a total turnover of EUR 2 billion in 2021
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...
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Media Appearances The “100 Most Powerful Women in Business Catalogue” – the 2021 edition. Women at the front of the line in business: Anca Vlad
The “100 Most Powerful Women in Business Catalogue” – the 2021 edition. Women at the front of the line in business: Anca Vlad
* The most important lesson I have learned during the pandemic: The pandemic has shown us the fragility of the world we live in and it has demonstrated that, from...
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Media Appearances What has Anca Vlad, the woman who created one of the biggest businesses in Romania, Fildas – Catena Group, read during the first year of the pandemic?
What has Anca Vlad, the woman who created one of the biggest businesses in Romania, Fildas – Catena Group, read during the first year of the pandemic?
I highly recommend “My way”, “A promised Land” and “The Blind Assassin”. Currently, I am watching a series of interviews directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Fran Leibowitz, called “Pretend It’s...
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Media Appearances Anca Vlad, founder of the Fildas Catena group: My personal and professional achievements has also started to develop in a strong crisis period, i.e. in the 1990s, when the inflation had reached 270%, banks were going bankrupt one after the other, state-owned companies were disappearing
Anca Vlad, founder of the Fildas Catena group: My personal and professional achievements has also started to develop in a strong crisis period, i.e. in the 1990s, when the inflation had reached 270%, banks were going bankrupt one after the other, state-owned companies were disappearing
The 1980s were characterized by cold and hunger – and I stoically endured them both. By the time I was finished with work, the stores were already empty. In the...
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Media Appearances How was the Catena brand chosen, which has become the leader in the pharmacy market?
How was the Catena brand chosen, which has become the leader in the pharmacy market?
The entrepreneur, Anca Vlad, the owner of Catena chain of pharmacies, as well as the owner of Fildas medicine distributor remembers how she chose more than two decades ago a...
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Media Appearances Media appearances in 2018
Media appearances in 2018
A short summary of media appearances in 2018.
Media Appearances Female entrepreneurship image
Female entrepreneurship image
A lot of work and vision. These are the words that best describe the success that Anca Vlad has achieved in entrepreneurship. As an economist, her first business was in...
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Media Appearances “We must increase the living standards in Romania in order to keep the young people from leaving.”
“We must increase the living standards in Romania in order to keep the young people from leaving.”
Anca Vlad, founder of the Fildas-Catena pharmaceutical group, is part of the first generation of Romanian entrepreneurs after 1989. She is the Vice President of the Businessmen’s Association of Romania...
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Media Appearances What will Romania look like 20 years from now? What does Anca Vlad, the founder of Fildas Group (Catena Pharmacies), think?
What will Romania look like 20 years from now? What does Anca Vlad, the founder of Fildas Group (Catena Pharmacies), think?
“Romania is located on a dynamic continent, with a high degree of economic development, but also with a higher level of ecological and social consciousness than in other parts of...
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