Business

December 3, 2020 - A letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic from Glas Poduzetnika (Voice of Entrepreneurs), seeking the immediate dismissal of Minister Coric.  Dear Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Glas poduzetnika Association considers it inadmissible that Mr. Ćorić is still the Minister of Economy. Namely, the Minister has already shown several times that he does not care that the Croatian economy is failing, that many companies will close their doors and that tens of thousands of workers will lose their jobs. We believe that it is unfitting for the Minister of the Government of the Republic of Croatia…

ZAGREB, Dec 3, 2020 - Since November 30, inspectors from the Civil Protection Directorate have carried out 1,023 inspections of businesses and public gatherings to check their compliance with COVID-19 restrictions, issuing 76 warnings, after which the shortcomings were removed, Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said at a cabinet meeting on Thursday. Bozinovic said that the irregularities mostly concerned failure to display a notice of the number of customers allowed on the premises at any given time, failure to keep a safe distance at supermarket checkouts, and the use of face masks by customers and staff.

December 3, 2020 - The EPIC Webinars continue, with Claudia Mika of TEMOS and Daniel Coulton-Shaw of GCR discussing Innovations & Standards: Conflict or Convergence? It has been 8 months since the postponement of the European Patient experience & Innovations Congress, and since then EPIC activities have been transferred to the online world in the form of monthly webinars. Among EPIC partners, we have added Cisco Webex, an American company that develops and sells web conferencing and video conferencing programs. It was founded as WebEx in 1995 and was taken over by Cisco Systems in 2007. Their platform allowed to…

December the 3rd, 2020 - The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused numerous often very serious issues for economic activity all over the world, but despite these woes, the Croatian AD Plastik Group has contracted 24 million euros in new business for no less than Suzuki's redesigned S-Cross model, the auto parts manufacturer from Solin announced on Tuesday. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the AD Plastik Group will deliver various exterior and interior components from three of its locations, so that, in addition to its Hungarian factory, components for this Japanese car manufacturer will be delivered from factories in Solin and Zagreb…

December the 3rd, 2020 - The Croatian company Q, which has already received a lot of very well deserved good press of late, has taken things even further, winning a prestigious German innovation award for its application (app). As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the Croatian company Q's medical application "medi vision", which was created by the Zagreb-based IT company for the German company "medi", won the prestigious German Innovation Award 2020, Q reported on Tuesday. "Medi vision" is a digital tool that enables fast and accurate measurements using 3D models and thus facilitates the selection of medical devices, the statement said. It will…

ZAGREB, Dec 3, 2020 - The reconstruction of Zagreb and surrounding areas following the March 22 earthquake will cost HRK 42 billion (€5.6bn) and will require 100,000 workers annually, the dean of the Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, Stjepan Lakusic, said on Thursday. Speaking in a Croatian Radio programme in the morning, Lakusic stressed the need to reskill people to ensure a sufficient number of workers for reconstruction projects, adding that 2021 would be a year of adjustment and that the reconstruction process was running late. Marija Cagalj, the vice-president of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK) for construction, transport…

December 2, 2020 – With the new initiative named "Grow Croatia with Google" presented by Google, the goal is to significantly contribute to the recovery and development of the Croatian economy and accelerate the digital transformation, and thus respond to the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As Novac.hr reports, the coronavirus pandemic and the simultaneous lockdown greatly affected the economy. However, the current situation also opens up new possibilities, as consumers turn to the internet which increases the need to accelerate the digital transformation of business. The technology that has enabled us to work and learn remotely in recent…

December the 2nd, 2020 - Digitisation in Croatia goes slowly. In fact it goes so slowly that it's rather difficult to believe it is progressing at all when you find yourself standing in line with a bible's worth of paperwork in your hand at Fina, MUP, or some other God forsaken office full of half dead plants and even more half dead clerks. Telemach Croatia, however, understands that this is a process at which it is paramount to be at the very forefront. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, we're still going through the tiresome motions of a very, very challenging year…

December the 2nd, 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic has forcibly put the key in the lock of many a previously planned investment, especially in the Croatian tourism sector as companies suffered and continue to suffer the economic fallout as a result of the anti-epidemic measures. With that being said, just how much are Croatian tourism companies willing to invest when the pandemic finally draws to a close? As Marija Crnjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Croatian tourism companies have ready projects for investment worth a total of a massive 25 billion kuna, which can be realised over the next five years, in four…

December 1, 2020 -  Adria Business Network #13, organized by successful entrepreneurs Željka Barišić, owner of Forca Digital Agency and Kristina Krstinić, owner of MIKRIS Project Management, will be held on December 15, 2020, at 6 pm, this time online. The first part of the event welcomes experienced and successful entrepreneurs Ognjen Bagatin, co-owner of the Bagatin Polyclinic and owner of the media platform Entrepreneur, and Dario Marenić, owner of Elda, with whom the participants will discuss the most valuable lessons of 2020. With their knowledge, they will try to help everyone who is currently in a hopeless business situation, but…