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January 23, 2020 - Europe's first-ever patient experience and innovation congress, EPIC 2020, will take place in Dubrovnik in March. TCN catches up with co-organiser, Irving Stackpole, to learn more about this ground-breaking conference.  There are two months to go until the EPIC 2020, the first European Patient Experience and Innovation Congress in Dubrovnik, which boasts a star-studded lineup of medical tourism expert speakers and professionals, including some of the biggest names in the industry, such as Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. In terms of experience, none can match Irving Stackpole, who is not only in the industry for 48…

Croatian shipbuilding has been going through some turbulent times over the last few years, with the pressure on them mounting up to breaking point over the last couple of years. Uljanik, the famous Pula shipyard, has sadly reached the very end of the line, doesn't fulfil the conditions for continued business and will go into liquidation. As Marija Brnic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 22nd of January, 2020, the bankruptcy administrator suggested that part of the property not be sold yet but to have that part postponed, and that Uljanik's property, including cranes, construction (novogradnja) 526 and other items be transferred…

ZAGREB, January 22, 2020 - Croatia is a popular travel destination in Spain, and tourist trade might rise with the opening of the Croatian National Tourism Board (HTZ) office in Madrid this year and with the introduction of new air routes, Croatian Minister of Tourism Gari Cappelli said on Tuesday. During his official visit to Spain, Cappelli met his Spanish counterpart Maria Reyes Maroto Illera. The meeting at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism in Madrid was also attended by Croatia's Ambassador to Spain, Nives Malenica, the Croatian Ministry of Tourism said in a statement. On that occasion, Capelli…

ZAGREB, January 22, 2020 - "EU funds are changing Croatia" is the title of an exhibition that opened in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday evening, featuring 40 projects funded from the EU budget. The exhibition was organised by the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds and HDZ MEPs Tomislav Sokol and Karlo Ressler, and opened by the Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds, Marko Pavić. Pavić and a dozen government ministers and state secretaries are presenting the priorities of the Croatian EU presidency before relevant European Parliament committees this week. "European funds are indeed changing Croatia…

ZAGREB, January 21, 2020 - DotMetrics, a Croatian startup, has become the official web analytics system for British websites, winning the tender advertised by UK Online Measurement Ltd. (UKOM), a company established by Britain's leading publishers and advertisers, announced the startup on Tuesday. DotMetrics won the tender in cooperation with Ipsos, one of the leading providers of advanced market research expertise in the world, leaving behind some of the top players on the global market of data collection, such as the US company comScore, announced the startup. DotMetrics added that it is officially taking over on 1 January 2021, and…

ZAGREB, January 21, 2020 - Beers produced by craft- and microbreweries are getting more and more popular in Croatia, and currently some 80 breweries of this kind are aspiring to increase their market share from the current 2%-3% to 10% in the coming years. The head of the Croatian association of craft and microbreweries, Krešo Marić, has told Hina that the average Croatian beer lover can recognise a difference between craft beers and lagers, and in this context he says that it is like comparing prosciutto to processed meat. In Croatia, the annual beer consumption is 83 litres per capita,…

Tomislav Debeljak of DIV group has his eye on a struggling shipyard in Norway, and the two parties have come to an arrangement that is sure to suit both. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes on the 20th of January, 2020, in the announcement, the two companies state that the acquisition contract should be finalised in the next few weeks, and they expect good synergies in both financial and production terms. A DIV group owned by Brodosplit has entered into an agreement to take over the Norwegian shipyard Kleven Verft. It is a shipyard that has been experiencing numerous difficulties in…

ZAGREB, January 20, 2020 - The Franak association on Monday reacted sharply to the news of a tender issued by Raiffeisenbank Austria (RBA) for a PR agency which would influence the Constitutional Court in the dispute over the nullification of contracts for Swiss franc-denominated loans, underscoring that any pressure on the judiciary was unlawful. The Index.hr website posted on Sunday that RBA was looking for a PR agency that would exert pressure on the Constitutional Court. In their tender RBA is looking for a crisis communication service concerning CHF loans. One task includes "exerting pressure on the Constitutional Court and…

ZAGREB, January 20, 2020 - A total of 64,349 new cars were registered for the first time in Croatia in 2019, an increase of 4.2% on 2018, while the number of used cars registered last year rose by 7% to 84,913, according to data provided by the Centre for Vehicles of Croatia (CVH). Of the new cars, 38,487 or 60% were fuelled by petrol. The number of petrol-powered cars increased by 16.9% compared with 2018, while the number of those using diesel fell by 13.9% to 23,515. The number of new electric vehicles registered in 2019 increased to 198 from…

ZAGREB, January 19, 2020 - Croatian producers sold 74 million euro worth of products through the SPAR retail chain in Italy, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia in 2019, which is 5% more than in 2018, SPAR Croatia said in a statement this past week. The largest increase in sales was recorded in Italy. It was not just large companies, but also medium-sized and small businesses that successfully marketed their products through SPAR's retail network. Among the large producers were the food company Vindija, the aquaculture company Cromaris, confectioner Kraš and the hygienic products company Logistika Violeta. Vindija increased its exports to…