what is a Romanian investor planning for a castle in France?
Angela Craciun, a local investor who started several businesses in Romania in the 90s, has finally found her dream home and business, all in one. She has bought a castle in the Loire Valley and is working on making it a cultural hub and a source of revenue from cultural and private events. Previously, she had built up several businesses in Romania, including a dairy production unit, which she finally sold to the developers of Gold Plaza shopping center in Baia Mare. Corina Saceanu Angela Craciun started her first business in 1994 and many other ventures were to follow between then and 2008, when she decided to buy a castle in the Loire and live there, using it as the hub of a business. A mining engineer by field of study, Craciun started out doing business in media, marketing and advertising in the early 90s, then went on to the IT and telephony markets, and eventually to setting up and running a magazine. It didn’t end there, as a dairy factory followed. After that, Craciun moved into