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One of Europe's most highly-regarded tech entrepreneurs opens UK office on Brexit Day aiming to reinvigorate high streets with smart street furniture. Include opens office in London. ● Croatian tech prodigy Ivan Mrvos, CEO of Include, created revolutionary smart street benches while at high school and has now sold more than 1,300 units worldwide ● Include opens its first UK office with a plan to become the largest provider of wi-fi enabled smart benches in the UK in five years ● Mrvos – ranked in Forbes’ top 30 talents under 30-years of age – believes Include’s smart city solutions can…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 30th of January, 2020, the opening of Valamar's new centre, which can accommodate up to 1200 people and can be adapted to any type of conference, congress, seminar, meeting or exhibition, is planned for spring 2021 in Porec, Istria. Croatia's leading tourism company Valamar Riviera is building the largest hotel event centre in Istria. The Pical Convention Centre in Porec will be able to accommodate up to 1,200 people, deal with every type of conference, seminar, meeting, exhibition and event, and provide the highest level of support for the organisation of the event with…

 January 29, 2020 - The first European Patient Experience and Innovation Congress will take place in Dubrovnik from March 19-21. TCN catches up with co-organiser, Daniel Coulton Shaw from Global Clinic Rating to find out more.  1. The term 'patient experience' is something relatively new in terms of medical tourism conference themes. Tell us what you mean by it, and why people will be hearing a lot more about it in the future. Wikipedia states that Patient experience (PX) is defined as the sum of all interactions, shaped by #healthcareorganization culture, that influence #patient perceptions across the continuum of care.For me, in…

ZAGREB, January 30, 2020 - Croatia is the partner country of this year's Fieragricola, Italy's largest agricultural fair, which is taking place in Verona from January 29 to February 1. Agriculture Minister Marija Vučković attended the opening ceremony on Wednesday on behalf of the Agriculture Ministry as the partner institution. Vuckovic participated in a panel entitled "Agribusiness in Africa and trade relations with the EU and Italy: Opportunities and prospects", and had a bilateral meeting with her Italian counterpart Teresa Bellanova, with whom she discussed ways of advancing Croatian-Italian trade relations, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement. In the…

There has been a lot of talk about the introduction of 5G in Croatia, with the introduction of 5G in Osijek generating an even stronger response in both a negative sense. Now come the developments in infrastructure which are necessary to facilitate this important network transition. As Darko Bicak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 29th of January, 2020, this regards a development of telecommunication infrastructure in the municipalities of Antunovac, Čepin, Erdut, Ernestinov, Šodolovac, Vladislavci and Vuka. The project has the intention of seeing the network reach almost 10,000 private business and public users. As an important step towards the introduction…

As Jozo Vrdoljak/Privredni.hr/Novac writes on the 29th of January, 2020, the Croatian company AD Plastik Group has contracted new deals for the Russian and European markets worth an enormous 31.8 million euros in total. Additional jobs for the Renault-Nissan-AvtoVAZ alliance worth 22.4 million euros have been contracted over on the Russian market, and cooperation with the PSA Group is continuing on the European market, with which new jobs with a total value of 9.4 million euros have been contracted. The AD Plastik Togliatti plant in Russia will produce shock absorbers and exterior pillar trims for the new Lada Grant model…

DUGA RESA, January 28, 2020 - Officials of Karlovac County and the municipality of Velika Kladuša, Bosnia and Herzegovina, negotiated on Tuesday in Duga Resa cooperation in a project of long-term development of agricultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia, which will be co-financed through the EU's INTERREG programme. It is a project of cross-border cooperation between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro, coordinated by the north western Bosnian town of Velika Kladuša, so the talks with representatives of the City of Duga Resa and other local units of the Karlovac County were attended by the Velika Kladuša…

As Barbara Ban/Novac writes on the 27th of January, 2020, Pula's Arena Hospitality Group hotelier from is investing as much as 363 million kuna in its portfolio in southern Istria this year. The largest investment, of about 245 million kuna, is the one in Pula's Hotel Brioni on Verudela, which has been expected for many years, and will last two years, then they'll invest in a nearby apartment complex called Arena Verudela Beach and the Medulin campsite Arena Grand Kažela. The complete renovation and repositioning of the popular Brioni Hotel began this year. The opening of the newly renovated hotel…

Why exactly was Osijek chosen as the very first Croatian 5G city? Companies in Osijek Software City believe this government decision could help invest in increasing the number of IT professionals in this often overlooked Eastern Croatian city. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes on the 26th of January, 2020, although the decision to make Osijek the first Croatian 5G city rather than Bjelovar, Karlovac or Rijeka, who all applied, can be primarily explained by a very strong and promising local IT community that would research and create new products based on new 5G technologies. Another part of the answer to…

January 27, 2020 - A familiar brand returns to the cities of Slovenia, as the Varteks Modabus goes international for the first time.  It was once the fashion pride of all former Yugoslavia, working with some of the top names in fashion globally, as well as making its own-brand range of outstanding suits. Jeans for Levi Strauss were made in Novi Marof, a small town near the company's centre of operation in Varazdin, for example. At its height, there were 187 stores all over former Yugoslavia, as well as several international store presences.  After almost going bankrupt just before its…