Made in Croatia

May 29, 2020 - Bluer skies and climbing temperatures are usually enough to stoke travel plans, hotel reservations and frenzied consumption. That was until COVID-19 struck. How HORECA is responding. This summer is like no other and it seems a lot more that flipping the “We’re Open” sign on the door will be needed to goad masses into holiday spending mode. With more than 30 of its client hotels suspending business due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, leading hotel in-room dining solution provider RoomOrders has expanded its services beyond hotels, introducing the low-touch economy to the entire hospitality sector.…

May 29, 2020 - One of Croatia's leading producers of healthy food is turning its attention to assisting with the COVID-19 crisis. Meet the Securol hand sanitizer which could soon be supplying the needs of Croatia at a fair price.  Call me crazy, but the longer this coronavirus crisis goes on, the more hopeful I am for a better Croatia in the post-corona era.  Yes, there will be severe economic hardship for more of us, and yes, life will not be the same. But this unique situation has also fostered an environment that can bring real change, an environment where…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 28th of May, 2020, all of us have become caught up in a whole new era. New rules, reduced economic trends, cancelled orders. But some saw the crisis as an opportunity. Here's the story of the Croatian company Mihokovic Metal Solutions as an example of excellent adaptation to the new situation. The Croatian company, a metal producer called Mihokovic Metal Solutions is currently positioned as one of the leaders in the industry of metal processing and wholesale production of metal products in the Republic of Croatia. It supports various industries: transformer production, the IT…

As Novac writes on the 26th of May, 2020, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, Minister of Agriculture Marija Vuckovic, MP Branko Bacic, Split-Dalmatia County Prefect Blazenko Boban and Vrgorac Mayor Ante Pranic recently visited the newly built meat production factory belonging to the Pivac Group in the Ravca business zone, which is located close to Vrgorac. After visiting the Pivac Group's new factory, a meeting was held with Ivica Pivac, President of the management board of Braca Pivac, as well as Neven Pivac and Miljenko Pivac, who serve as members of the management board of the same company. "I'd like to…

 May 24, 2020 - TCN launched the Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community 5 days ago. It has been quite a ride. 10 things I learned since we started.  Last weekend, I called PR guru and champion of orange shoe fashion, Kresimir Macan, suggesting he take me in his Porsche to the main border with Slovenia at Bregana. With information so hard to find, a little first-hand reporting might be useful. MUP were extremely responsive by email with the media permission and very helpful at the border. You can see the realities of life on the Croatian-Slovenian border on May 17…

May 23, 2020 - Coronavirus may have slowed down the global economy, but one project in Croatia is moving ahead at speed - sunset at the Peljesac Bridge.  The economy may be much slower globally due to COVID-19, but some things are moving along apace, including a major infrastructure project the two parts of Croatia, which are currently physically separated by the 23-kilometre Neum Corridor, the coastal stretch of Bosnia and Hercegovina which gave BiH access to the sea as part of the Dayton Agreement, which brought an end to the war in the 1990s.  After many years of political…

As Novac/Matea Grbac writes on the 21st of May, 2020, the innovative Croatian startup, Fortis Labor, has developed an application which promotes transparency aimed at cities and associations for the monitoring of the spending of public money. The move represents a new upgrade to their ''Email notification system'' app, better known as SOM. Although the whole system was created primarily as an auxiliary tool for sports associations, it quickly became clear that it could quite easily be applied to all kinds of associations, and that it can also serve as a tool for the more clear cut and transparent monitoring…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 14th of May, 2020, this large Slavonian company was motivated to launch a new product by the demand for protective equipment, but also by the fall in the market of front/entrance door panels in Croatia and in the surrounding countries. Vinkovci's Grad-Export, one of the leading European manufacturers of decorative panels for front doors, is a Slavonian company which reacted remarkably quickly to the current changes in the market caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Just under two weeks ago, the company placed a disinfection barrier for footwear on the market, which is…

One of the leading Croatian manufacturers of cleaning products, the Zagreb company Labud, which is part of the Meteor Group, has focused all its efforts on multiplying the production of disinfectants since the first days of the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic in Croatia. As Novac/Boris Oresic writes on the 14th of May, 2020, working as needed and in three shifts six days a week, Labud has managed to multiply the quantities they deliver to consumers, among which health institutions have priority. In this Zagreb company's plant in Zitnjak, for weeks now, few people have become bogged down with the…

May 15, 2020 - The topic of Croatian entrepreneurs and their negative public perception in a part of the public is a part of a broader history of the private sector in a transition country. Various economic, psychological, and social aspects are mixed, and partially the influence of ideologically formed stereotypes. However, it seems that the perception created over a long time, through anecdotal evidence and the actions of interest groups, is far from reality. Now, perhaps, the turn of events is such that it will clear up many misconceptions and put more accurate information in the foreground. Of course,…