Business

December 6, 2019 - After successfully breaking into the US market, Carwiz continues its expansion in the States through its franchise model. Croatian car rental company Carwiz has positioned itself as a leader in the car rental segment in a short time - and in just a year, made a major leap forward and attacked and expanded into the global market through a franchise model. Thus, in less than a year, Carwiz is already present in 15 international markets, and it is with this new franchise partnership that they continue to expand globally in the most demanding market yet -…

ZAGREB, December 6, 2019 - An annex to the Basic Collective Agreement for public servants and a wage supplement agreement for education sector employees was signed in Government House on Thursday. The annex to the Basic Collective Agreement for public servants was signed by Labour and Pension System Minister Josip Aladrović and representatives of nine trade unions. "After a longer period of time we have decided to sign the annex to the Basic Collective Agreement and we must express our satisfaction. The negotiations were not simple, they were demanding, however we did find a compromise solution. We have accepted it…

December 5, 2019 - A diaspora group championing the small Croatian entrepreneur while fighting the ghosts of socialism. Meet Venatus Jones.  After Agrokor’s Borgs and tales of other advisors cashing in big bucks in shady deals, it’s understandable that business consultants don’t have a good name in Croatia. In fact, following the likes of Kutle, Kerum and Todoric, it’s understandable that Croatians don’t care much for entrepreneurs either. Venatus Jones, founded by diaspora returnee Eugene Brcic Jones over a year, ago is bent on changing that, offering to make business consulting and coaching accessible to all micro, small and medium…

ZAGREB, December 5, 2019 - The Croatian state-run road operator Hrvatske Ceste (HC) stated on Thursday that earlier in the morning the Greek Avax company had started constructing a ring-road at Ston on the peninsula of Pelješac, which is part of the Pelješac Bridge project aimed at improving Dalmatia's road connectivity. The Ston ring-road, consisting of the Šparagovići/Zaradeže-Prapratno and Prapratno-Doli sub-sections, is estimated at 511.5 million kuna without Value Added Tax (VAT). The HC expects Avax to build the 18-kilometre-long ring road within 28 months. The Šparagovići/Zaradeže-Prapratno sub-section includes a viaduct, and the Prapratno-Doli subsection two tunnels and two bridges.…

ZAGREB, December 5, 2019 - The Croatian Employers' Association (HUP) is hosting a two-day conference of representatives of 40 employers' associations from 35 European countries, which started in Zagreb on Thursday, HUP said in a press release. The gathering of "CoPres - Council of Presidents" has gathered 100 delegates, business people and executives of employers' associations who arrived in Zagreb for discussions on topics important for Europe's economy and trade relations with other economic powers, including the USA and China. The gathering is taking place in the capital city of Croatia, the next chair of the European Union. HUP is…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes on the 4th of December, the use of the cloud in doing business in Croatia has increased significantly this year. According to the first results of CBS research entitled "The application of information and communication technologies in enterprises in 2019" the cloud is now used by 37 percent of Croatian companies. In 2018, that figure stood at 31 percent, as it did in the previous year. The Croatian economy is, according to Eurostat, one of the top ten in the European Union in terms of cloud usage. Compared to last year, the largest increase in…

The RUNE project has the best funding model in the European Union (EU). As Bernard Ivezic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 4th of December, 2019, the Croatian-Slovenian optical infrastructure construction project, which is independent of the existing telecom operators, called RUNE, was declared the best in the whole of the European Union by the European Commission (EC) in the category of "Innovative financing, business and investment models". As the main issue when it comes to building optics in the European Union is precisely finding the right model to fund such projects, it is safe to say that this is also the…

Medi, a German company, is one of the world's leading producers of medical equipment, and they've just selected the Croatian company, Q, as their partners in their upcoming project. They're not the first or the biggest of the big international companies who have already partnered with Q: before this, Q worked with The Times, BBC, Coca-Cola, Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Facebook, Hilti, Vaillant, as well as pharma companies Novartis, Takeda and Almac. The application being developed by the Zagreb-based company uses a special camera which allows for the most precise 3D measurements of body parts thus far, to be used for medicinal…

ZAGREB, December 4, 2019 - The Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK) and the German-Croatian Chamber of Industry and Commerce organised a conference in Zagreb on Wednesday on Germany as an important business destination and on posted workers and taxes in cross-border provision of services. The head of the German-Croatian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Thomas Sichla, informed the gathering that this institution represented more than 400 members and provided assistance to German and Croatian enterprises wishing to do business on the German market, as well as gave advice about taxes and regulations. Considering the topic of posted workers - employees…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 3rd of December, 2019, the CEO of Enikom Aerospace, Marko Josip Andrijanić, and Vukovar Mayor Ivan Penava signed an agreement on leasing office space at the Business Industrial Centre in Vukovar on Tuesday, which will result in the employment of 200 workers in the production of interior components for both passenger and business aircraft. "I'm looking forward to working with Vukovar, in which we plan to expand our business," said Andrijanić, stating that Enikom Aerospace has been manufacturing interiors for commercial and private aircraft for more than 40 years in several locations: in the…