Business
Monday, 9 September 2019
Minister: Money Managed by Pension Funds Has to Boost GDP Growth
ZAGREB, September 9, 2019 - Economy Minister Darko Horvat has underscored that liquid funds managed by compulsory pension funds (OMF) are supposed to primarily boost Croatia's GDP growth, adding that that the government can immediately present some 30 projects for OMFs to invest in. Horvat was addressing a business conference "Investment challenges for pension funds" organised by the Jutarnji List daily and the Alliance of Associations of Pension and Insurance Management Funds (UMFO) in Zagreb on Monday, and on that occasion, he wondered how projects should be prepared for funds to invest in them. As an example, he mentioned the…
Monday, 9 September 2019
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Meet the Speakers - Fran Mikulicic
September 8, 2019 - Continuing our look at the speakers for next week's inaugural Entrepreneurial Mindset conference in Zagreb next week Next up, corporate consigliere, Fran Mikulicic. It quickly sold out and there is a waiting list of hundreds should tickets become available. Next week's Entrepreneurial Mindset conference in Zagreb is the first of its kind in Croatia, and it includes a top draw list of speakers, several of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country. TCN will be covering the event and we continue our series interviewing some of the key speakers. Our latest guest is corporate consigliere, Fran…
Monday, 9 September 2019
Ecological Agricultural Production Rising in Croatia
ZAGREB, September 9, 2019 - Croatia is near the top of EU rankings in ecological agricultural production growth but still lags behind in ecological food consumption, which is three times higher in the EU, the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK) said on Monday. Because of the fast-growing market, ecological production is increasingly attractive to domestic farmers, as farmland with such production has grown ten times in the past ten years, said Žaklina Jurišić, an assistant director at the HGK. In 2017, Croatia had 7,577 hectares of land under ecological production, or 0.63% of all farmland, and 103,166 hectares last year…
Monday, 9 September 2019
Croatian Small Businesses to Participate in Celje Trade Fair
ZAGREB, September 9, 2019 - Twenty-two Croatian small businesses will participate in the 52nd International Trade Fair in Celje, Slovenia next week, representatives of the Trade Fair, Slovenia's Chamber of Craft and Small Business and the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts (HOK) have announced. "Croatian small businesses will participate in the fair for the 24th time. We cover 50% of the costs of our exhibitors. Sixteen of the exhibitors are HOK members while the other six are participating directly," said HOK president Dalibor Kratohvil. The Celje Trade Fair, the largest in the region, will be held on September 10-15…
Sunday, 8 September 2019
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Meet the Speakers - Jadranka Boban Pejic
September 8, 2019 - Continuing our look at the speakers for next week's inaugural Entrepreneurial Mindset conference in Zagreb next week Next up, Biovega CEO, Jadranka Boban Pejic. It quickly sold out and there is a waiting list of hundreds should tickets become available. Next week's Entrepreneurial Mindset conference in Zagreb is the first of its kind in Croatia, and it includes a top draw list of speakers, several of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country. TCN will be covering the event and we continue our series interviewing some of the key speakers. Our latest guest is Jadranka Boban…
Sunday, 8 September 2019
Value of Construction Work Performed in Croatia up 10.6%
ZAGREB, September 8, 2019 - The value of construction work in Croatia, performed by companies employing 20 workers or more, increased by 10.6% in the second quarter of 2019 compared with the same period in 2018, while at the same time the value of new orders increased by 3.7%, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (DZS) show. The value of construction work was 6.68 billion kuna, of which 4.47 billion kuna related to work performed by own workers and 2.21 billion kuna to work carried out by subcontractors. 47.2% of the work was done on buildings and 52.8% on…
Sunday, 8 September 2019
Varaždin's Famous Vindija First in Europe to Market New Packaging
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes on the 8th of September, 2019, the famous Vindija from Varaždin is celebrating sixty years of doing business this year, and on the occasion of this grand jubilee, it has launched some brand new Vindi juices. Dubravka Drk Mravlinčić, Vindija's marketing director, points out that product branding is the key to quality communication with the market, an important factor in customer trust and loyalty, and the basis of successful business. ''We believe that we have proven ourselves in this segment on more than one occasion as ''Vindija Quality'' has become and continues to be important…
Saturday, 7 September 2019
Kali Tuna Expands Horizons With Brand New Plant in Hong Kong
Tuna reared in Kali tuna's cages has now taken its place on the vast market of Hong Kong, China and East Asia, Zadarski.hr reports. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 7th of September, 2019, Jiro Kambe, the owner of Kali Tuna, has now founded Kali Tuna H.K. Co., Ltd, and the new tuna ''plant'' for the market there opened there on Friday, September the 6th, 2019. China's "Kali Tuna" opens the day after the scheduled completion of Asia's largest fishery industry trade fair, Seafood Expo Asia 2019, which was scheduled to begin Tuesday and run until Thursday, but was delayed…
Saturday, 7 September 2019
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Meet the Speakers - Ognjen Bagatin
September 7, 2019 - Continuing our look at the speakers for next week's inaugural Entrepreneurial Mindset conference in Zagreb next week Next up, conference organiser and entrepreneurial driving force, Ognjen Bagatin. It quickly sold out and there is a waiting list of hundreds should tickets become available. Next week's Entrepreneurial Mindset conference in Zagreb is the first of its kind in Croatia, and it includes a top draw list of speakers, several of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country. One of the co-founders of the conference is Ognjen Bagatin, one of the most energetic proponents of change and positivity…
Saturday, 7 September 2019
HT Invests 1 Billion Euro in Croatia's Digital Infrastructure
ZAGREB, September 7, 2019 - Hrvatski Telekom (HT) has invested over 7.5 billion kuna (1 billion euro) in digital infrastructure in Croatia in the last four years, providing households, businesses and the public sector with better and faster access to the Internet and digital content, CEO Kostas Nebis said in the coastal city of Šibenik on Friday, adding that more investment projects are planned. "I really believe that through investment HT, being a large company, can contribute even more to society, economic development and the digital economy in Croatia, but that would also require the government to reduce parafiscal taxes,…
Saturday, 7 September 2019
Pelješac Bridge and Istrian Ypsilon Boost Construction Growth in Croatia
As Novac/Adriano Milovan writes on the 6th of September, 2019, the value of construction works in the Republic of Croatia in the second quarter of this year stood at 10.6 percent higher than it did in the same period last year, while in the first half of the year it increased by as much as 19.2 percent compared to the same period last year. These promising results on the state of Croatia's construction sector, which like a multitude of other industries has suffered some unwelcome blows of late, were shown when looking at some of the new data taken from…
