Made in Croatia

As Novac writes on the 9th of October, 2020, Cromaris, which operates within the Adris Group, is the sixth company in the world in terms of the cultivation of gilthead sea bream and sea bass. This year, it won the Labo de l'innovation competition from the renowned French specialised magazine Produit de la Mer, winning the Innovation of the Year award for its sea bass, gilt-head bream and fillets in skin packaging. The expert jury awarded the unique packaging with an attractive appearance that preserves the freshness and exceptional taste of the product which won the highest marks in the…

As Novac/Andreas Koscec writes on the 8th of October, 2020, Real Grupa, a Croatian marketing communications agency, has done an excellent job in Brazil. The company devised a brand new store concept, redesigned the existing ones and created a new strategic positioning campaign For the Spanish retail chain Dia, which has 900 stores in this huge market of 211 million people. On top of all of the above, it also is continuing Dia's campaigns on a monthly basis. ''I must admit I wasn't ready for Brazil. I worked on markets like Lithuania, Ukraine and Portugal, so I considered myself a cosmopolitan…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes on the 8th of October, 2020, the Movo product line is a novelty from a company called Sobocan from Mursko Sredisce, which, in its 20 years of business, has grown into a serious "player" on the European market when it comes to designing and manufacturing equipment for sales and business premises. As they say from Movo, for them it is a big business breakthrough inspired by the ongoing pandemic situation and the fact that more and more companies are adopting new business models like the well-known work from home one. Their answer is Movo -…

October the 8th, 2020 - Croatia is continually producing extremely talented people across all fields from sport to science and everything in between. 27-year-old Pavo Orepic from Ploce in the Neretva region of southern Dalmatia is yet another fine example of this. As rogotin.hr writes on the 8th of October, 2020, on Thursday, young Pavo Orepic (27), a "child from Ploce", successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), securing a doctorate in no less than cognitive neuroscience. And not only that, the competent commission nominated…

October 8, 2020 - The competition to find Croatian Tree Of The Year 2020 has begun. Here we look at pictures of the candidates in all their glory The start of October saw details released of the candidates for Croatian Tree Of The Year 2020. The winner will be chosen by public vote. Many different kinds of tree have been chosen for Croatian Tree Of The Year 2020 and this year's finalists come from all over Croatia. They range in age considerably – one of them is a relatively young sapling, whereas another is more than 1500 years old. All…

October 8, 2020 - Najfiniji sapuni itd. (Finest Soaps, etc.) is a line of all-natural cosmetic products, owned by two Croatian single moms, Maja Pejcic and Jasminka Grbelja. With a breath of the Mediterranean and a lot of will, they have become noticed in Croatia. So, “Najfiniji sapuni / Finest soaps, etc.” Not at all mundane or standard. How did you come up with the name?  Najfiniji sapuni started with solid soaps. After that, we decided to start making face creams, lotions, balms… In essence, the name comes from a combination of what we are - the finest cosmetics for body care…

October 7, 2020 - Varazdin Klipic yesterday became the 27th item of Croatian produce protected by the EU. The bread roll is designated a unique standing and protected name because of its distinct place of origin Terrific news from the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture! As of Tuesday 6 October 2020, Varazdin Klipic became the 27th item of Croatian produce protected by the EU. The process of protection of the bread snack's name began in February 2017, when the Chefs Association of Varaždin County submitted a request to the Ministry of Agriculture. Varazdin Klipic is made according to a specific recipe…

As Novac/Barbara Ban writes on the 5th of October, 2020, the innovative Labin-based architect Drazen Smokovic figured out how to make sunbathing on rugged and rocky beaches without destroying the coast with construction or some other intervention possible. Meet Flatrocks. The Croatian architect designed adjustable platforms called Flatrocks, which can be placed on any rocky beach, and there is really no shortage of them on the Croatian coast. They are prefabricated and are installed and dismantled without any damage to the substrate. This idea was liked by the popular Croatian hotel giant Valamar Riviera, who decided to use this idea…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes on the 4th of October, 2020, Nika Pintar and Bruno Balen, the founders of the Croatian startup Cidrani, presented the Niksen brand to the market - it is an instant cold brew coffee powder, 1.5 espresso. It is a Croatian startup that has a vision to make every food a superfood, and the team currently has five employees and about twenty external associates. Cidrani has been around since last year, and in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, they launched their very first products on the market. No sugar needed ''Niksen is a wellbeing concept…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ivan Tominac writes on the 4th of October, 2020, the director of Adria Electronic from Rijeka explained how at one address, in one company, only with their own employees and without any outsourcing, they united the development of a complete system. Adria Electronic is based in Rijeka and its director is Vladimir Budislavic. The company took its first steps back in 1974, surviving the disintegration of Yugoslavia and 20 years ago establishing the first collaboration on the project for which they are best known today, and it is an intelligent room system in which they cooperate with the…