Business

January 10, 2022 - Croatians in Switzerland have been free to work since January 1, and many workers are making the movie for well-paid winter jobs.  Switzerland opened its job market for Croatian workers on January 1, 2022, making them equal to other citizens of EU member states. According to the latest official data, slightly less than 30,000 Croats already work in Switzerland, reports Index.hr. Index has learned from Nataša Kačar, the owner of the Jobs in Tourism portal and employment agency, that the first workers from the hospitality sector have come for the winter season. The need for workers…

January the 9th, 2022 - Multiple brand new Zagreb hypermarkets and supermarkets have popped up in the capital over the last couple of months, with some new players in the game. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, back during the months of November and December last year, Konzum, Lidl, Kaufland, Plodine and Pevex opened several new Zagreb hypermarkets and supermarkets, and when you add the stores that Studenac, Stanic, Tommy and other retail chains have also opened across other parts of the country in the same time period in 2021, there are about twenty newly opened locations for the purchase of various…

January the 7th, 2022 - Mandatory Croatian pension funds had some excellent results in 2021, some of their very best since back in 2014. More than 2.1 million members of mandatory Croatian pension funds can be satisfied with last year’s increase in their savings. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Tomislav Pili writes, that said, this year is set to bring with it some brand new challenges due to the expected increase in interest rates, which could negatively affect yields in the short term. In this context, the question of new types of pension fund investments, such as real estate investments, also arises. According…

January the 6th, 2022 - Hrvatska postanska banka (HPB) and Hrvatska posta (Croatian post) have come together and signed a framework agreement on strategic partnership, all done with the aim of improving things for their end customers and clients. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, HPB and Croatian Post decided to put their heads together for the benefit of their many customers and clients and as such signed a new Framework Agreement on Strategic Partnership and Outsourcing back on the 31st of December 2021 with the primary aim of improving the level of the customer service they both offer. The strategic partnership between…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - In 2021 45,289 new passenger vehicles were sold, up 25.5% from 2020, when 36,084 cars were sold, and in December 2021 alone 2,484 cars were sold, up 19.5% on the year, according to the Promocija Plus market research agency. Volkswagen was the best selling make in 2021 with 5,783 cars sold, or 12.7% of all cars sold, followed by Škoda with 4,571 cars sold, Opel with 3,602 cars sold, Kia (3,226) and Dacia (3,010). Croatians also bought 1,420 Audis, 1,130 BMWs, 1,065 Mercedes cars, 190 Porsches and 234 Tesla cars. Exotic models that were sold include 4 Ferraris and 2…

January the 5th, 2022 - Ina Rodin had two mandates within the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ), and she's now returned back to the private sector, having kicked things off with the launch of IR Global Consultants, with which she aims to bring a touch of luxury to Croatia. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, after two terms and seven years holding the position of director of the Croatian National Tourist Board across the pond in the United States, Ina Rodin has taken to entrepreneurship. Over recent days in New York, she founded a company called IR Global Consultants and a…

ZAGREB, 4 Jan 2022 - The main Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) indices increased again on Tuesday, the Crobex for the ninth and the Crobex10 for the sixth consecutive trading day, and regular turnover was modest with only one stock crossing the million kuna mark. On Tuesday, the Crobex went up by 0.14% to 2,131 points, while the Crobex10 inched up by 0.03% to 1,292 points, with both indices hitting new high records since March 2017 after gaining 19.6% and 16% respectively in 2021 and jumping by more than 2% on the first trading day of 2022. Regular turnover was a mere HRK 5.78 million,…

ZAGREB, 4 Jan 2022 - The dm retailer, which offers cosmetics, healthcare items, household products, and health food, has donated 10,000 liters of the Aresept disinfectant worth HRK 594,000 to the KBC Zagreb hospital to help reduce the exposure of medical workers and patients to hospital infections and viruses. Hospital director Ante Ćorušić said the use of disinfectants in institutions like the KBC Zagreb, which has more than 6,000 employees and where annually more than 1.5 million procedures are provided, has been intensified to reduce as much as possible the risk of infection, notably in the current coronavirus pandemic. The KBC Zagreb consists…

ZAGREB, 4 Jan 2022 - As of Tuesday, two electric taxis will be providing taxi services in Karlovac, their purchase by the Ambassador company having been co-financed with HRK 70,000 (approx. €9,300) per car by the Environment and Energy Efficiency Fund. The two Volkswagen vehicles each cost HRK 300,000 (€40,000) and Ante Čerkez of the Auto Hrvatska car dealer said electric cars accounted for 3% of all car purchases in 2021, three times more than in 2020. Čerkez expects the sale of electric and hybrid cars to rise significantly due to the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. "Electric car sales in Karlovac are…

January the 4th, 2022 - Just when you might think things are beginning to move in the right direction, a Croatian enterprise owner gets fined for 4,500 kuna for failing to ''calibrate'' an old wooden metre. We'd love an explanation as to how that would ever, on any planet, be possible. As totalinfo.hr writes, on the Voice of the Entrepreneurs Association's Facebook page called Measures and Reforms for Croatia 2.0, you can read a variety of comments about how often small Croatian-owned businesses are punished unfairly for next to nothing or even for quite comical situations that you'd expect any…