Services

Through its activities, CDIMM Maramures Foundation is addressing to private persons willing to start their own business SMEs that have a private programme, local NGOs. The support consists in:

1. Business consulting
The CDIMM Foundation grants business consulting, through the specialists employed or its collaborators, to companies and private persons who request assistance in the following fields: start-up; financial consulting (financial analysis of the company status and evolution); business plan and fesability studies; the identification of the way and costs for the establishment of an enterprise; loan conditions in banks; etc.

2. Training and seminars
The CDIMM Maramures Foundation periodically organises seminars mainly addressed to private company managers, for the discussing of major interest subjects: business administration, business plan, marketing, industrial property, financial resources, project management, etc.

3. Elaboration of business plans and feasibility studies
Throughout, the CDIMM Maramures Foundation elaborates documentation or assists its customers in the preparing of documentation or investment programs. Collaboration is done on the basis of firm contracts, more assistance forms being possible: getting bank loans; getting grants; consulting for financing from investment funds; business development through joint ventures. The clients can benefit of the consulting for business plan, or even for the fulfilment of a business plan. CDIMM Maramures Foundation took part directly at many programmes, offering support to SMEs and it also accords micro-credits.

4. Incubation of new companies
The Business Incubator Baia Mare has been realised through an investment 196.000 USD, starting from an old building, having P + 4 levels. It has at the very beginning 104 spaces and each one had 12 sq. m. After the refurbishment, there were made modular spaces of 24, 36 and 48 sq. m. The total surface for business incubation is 1.010 sq. m. In the incubator there are also secretarial services, a library, a meeting room, available for the incubated companies. Their advantage consist in: Low costs renting; Access to common services – the administrative ones, computer using and Internet accessing, meeting room; specialised consultancy, in marketing, management and planning; training for SMEs in the start-up period and SMEs in the growth period.

5. Activities in Industrial Property field
- free access to the Romanian collection of Industrial Property Official Bulletins (printed by OSIM) for the following sections: Romanian Patents, Extended Patents, New Plant Species, Trademaerks, Indication of Origin, Industrial Design as well as foreign publications with regard to the intellectual property protection;
- consultancy regarding the protection of inventions, trademarks, indication of origin, industrial design, etc.;
- documentary researches on patents, trademarks, indication of origin, industrial design, etc.;
- researches on the risk of industrial property rights' counterfeit;
- consultancy regarding the intellectual property management.

6. Publications and other information materials
CDIMM Maramures Foundation has an own publication, called Jurnal CDIMM Maramures. It is published since 1995 and registered at the Romanian National Library with the ISSN –1454-7007. Jurnal CDIMM Maramures is published every month and has useful information for the business environment. Since 1999, the CDIMM Maramures Foundation has own publishing house called: "Editura Fundatiei CDIMM Maramures".