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March 18, 2019 - More international medical tourism expertise is heading to Zagreb to help grow the Croatian medical tourism story, as Irving Stackpole and Elizabeth Ziemba host a boutique seminar at Bagatin Education Centre in Zagreb next week.  The number of international medical tourism experts passing through Croatia these days is really quite incredible.  Although covering the health tourism industry is only a small part of what I do, it seems that every time I look at it, there is another global expert in town. I got to meet and interview Joe Sweet, International Patient Experience Director for the…

ZAGREB, March 18, 2019 - A union referendum initiative against retiring at the age of 67 called "67 is too much" said on Monday it would collect signatures for the referendum from April 27 to May 11 and that the question would be about lowering the retirement age back to 65. Speaking at a press conference, union leaders Mladen Nosovel, Krešimir Sever and Vilim Ribić said the referendum would demand to amend the Pension Insurance Act. The initiative proposes that an insured person be entitled to old age pension upon reaching 65 years of age and having completed 15 years…

The InvestCro conference was opened by the editor-in-chief of Poslovni Dnevnik, Vladimir Nišević, who stressed the fact that this project opens up discussions topics that are of great importance to our society. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 18th of March, 2019, the "InvestCro: Investment in (Non) Opportunities in Croatia" conference, whose central theme is rather depressingly inspired by missed opportunities, ie planned investments that have not been realised, as well as obstacles investors encounter and also possible improvements to the arrival and treatment of foreign investors, is being held at the Westin hotel in Zagreb. This conference is the…

ZAGREB, March 17, 2019 - Croatia's energy group INA, whose biggest shareholders are Hungary's MOL with just below 50 percent and the Croatian government with an almost 45 percent stake, has expanded its retail network in Montenegro by acquiring five new locations from petrol station chain Pavgord. The locations include the capital Podgorica and the Adriatic city of Kotor. INA will now operate 11 petrol stations in Montenegro, increasing its market share to 15 percent from just one percent in 2017. The company says its medium-term goal is to become a major player in the Montenegro market. The INA oil…

Here at Varteks, we can see the 50+ years of decay. We are now discarding supplies, including buttons that someone ordered and bought 20 years ago, said Nenad Bakić. “Until recently, the chairman of the board drove with a driver in the official A8, and the minimum wage wasn't even paid to workers. I think that with a radical change in the business model we can get better quality and go a step further. The suits which we produce today are literally the best of the best quality-wise,” reports Express on March 16, 2019. He then presented optimistic development plans.…

If one goes in search of a definitive answer to the question of what type of business concept with great market potential and small initial investments is currently worth investing in in the Republic of Croatia, few people would be able to give you the real answer, and the real answer is as bland as laundry. No, really. As Jasmina Trstenjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 15th of March, 2019, the current estimates are that the number of overnight stays realised by foreign tourists, especially in private accommodation, will increase in Croatia this sumemr season, and such commercial facilities will have…

Daniel Boehi, Miodrag Borojević, Paul Foley, Kelly Griffith, Maxim Poletajev, Jullian Michael Simmons, Sergey Volk and Fabris Peruško are a list of names that will enter the ''new'' Agrokor, or Fortenova's management. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 15th of March, 2019, Sberbank's Maksim Poletajev will be the head of Fortenova's board of directors, as was decided upon by the concern's owners during meeting in London, Večernji list writes. At the moment, this information remains unofficial and should be confirmed at the end of March, when new functions will be recorded in the Court Registry of companies. Namely, on the…

March 15, 2019 - The 5th Annual Medical Tourism Conference in Zagreb brought together a rich collection of international experts, including Cleveland Clinic's Director of International Patient Experience, Joe Sweet.  It has been another important week in the Croatian medical tourism story, as the 5th Annual Medical Tourism Conference in Zagreb, organised by Euro Events, brought a very international group of stakeholders to the Croatian capital for two days of conference followed by a B2B workshop today, as TCN reported earlier.  Among the impressive list of speakers was Joe Sweet, Cleveland Clinic's Director of International Patient Experience, whose presentation was…

ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Following the announcement by the opposition Živi Zid party that it would file a criminal complaint against the owner of the Brodosplit shipyard, Tomislav Debeljak, the shipyard's management, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and his predecessors Tihomir Orešković and Zoran Milanović, and former Economy Minister Ivan Vrdoljak for financial wrongdoing at the Split-based shipyard, the ruling HDZ and the strongest opposition party SDP denied their responsibility for the current problems at Brodosplit, accusing each other of financial machinations. The chairman of the HDZ parliamentary group, Branko Bačić, said that criminal complaints were Živi Zid's "modus operandi",…

ZAGREB, March 15, 2019 - A decision on the ailing Uljanik Group will be partly political, but primarily economic and financial in nature, Finance Minister Zdravko Marić said on Friday after devastating financial reports about the group prompted him to wonder about the current importance of the shipbuilding industry for Croatia. "There is a political element in the decision making in the whole process, however, I primarily see it as an economic and financial decision, considering that we have so far paid 3.1 billion kuna through enforced guarantees, and you can add all that has been paid for the entire…