Made in Croatia

There is no doubt that Croatian companies are as innovative as they are determined. Despite operating in a country which likes to throw spanners in the works of each entrepreneurial step, putting off would-be investors from at home and abroad along the way, many companies manage to succeed, the amazing Gideon Brothers is one of them. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes on the 10th of April, 2020, the Croatian company Gideon Brothers, which makes logistics autonomous robots, also wants to manufacture disinfection robots for hospitals in the ongoing coronavirus battle. Gideon Brothers' Matija Kopic, who is the co-founder and CEO…

As Novac writes on the 9th of April, 2020, the Croatian company ''Elda'' from Nova Gradiška in Eastern Croatia has decided to start producing a currently very sought-after product - antiseptic. ''The basic prerequisites for the conversion of production were the quality of our premises and the cleanliness we have according to ISO standards. The idea of ​​the whole story or the necessity to turn to new products was born a month and a half ago when we assumed that the whole of Europe would end up in the situation we're now in,'' Dario Marenic, owner of this Croatian company,…

April 7, 2020 - Salivating over those wonderful restaurant meals from the pre-corona era? A new steak delivery service from one of Croatia's top meat restaurants has launched a national delivery service to meat your needs.  Now that we have all got to know the four walls of our current location intimately, close your eyes for a moment and try and decide where and with whom you would be spending your self-isolation in a perfect world (let me rephrase that - in a best-case-corona-scenario world).  A lot of people have expressed longing for the gorgeous Adriatic when I post photos…

April 6, 2020 - He was the star of the recent Croatian Presidential campaign, and now erstwhile presidential candidate and Zagreb mayor namesake wannabe Dario Jurican, aka Milan Bandic is back with a new show - and the world is suddenly a better place.  Even though life is brutal at the moment with my own corona economic realities, coupled with the need to work 15-16 hours a day to mitigate the disaster, I can honestly say that I have never been more challenged or fulfilled professionally.  Trying to deliver the content so many non-Croatian speakers are looking for at this…

As Barbara Ban/Novac writes on the 3rd of April, 2020, any help during this unprecedented pandemic is more than welcome. That is why young computer scientists from Pula - Kristijan Saric and Matija Plastic decided to focus their knowledge on creating an application that could help medical staff recognise the presence of coronavirus in the future. Meet Exactbyte. ''We're a company from Pula that is primarily engaged in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the development of applications using these technologies. We'd like to use this knowledge and experience to help with the COVID-19 virus situation. We have developed a…

As Sasa Paparella/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 2nd of April, 2020, the Kamensko Association has been engaged in sewing cotton masks for the Association of the Blind, fire departments, nursing homes and more, and as we reported today, INA has very generously donated 50,000 kuna to them. The former workers of Kamensko, who founded the association after the demise of the Zagreb textile factory and became been self-employed, have been sewing cotton masks since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, which they then mostly donate to needy fellow citizens, and also send some to various clients. "We're worried about all those…

Mate Rimac is the protagonist of one of Croatia's most inspiring entrepreneurial stories. In a country where it seems that doing business and attracting investment is almost impossible due to draconian laws and ridiculous processes all wrapped up in a tangled mess of red tape, the Rimac Automobili owner has shown it is, still, more than possible to succeed. Rimac Automobili is not only an example to other Croatian companies when it comes to how things should be done, but its management is a reflection of the views and opinions of its founder - Mate Rimac, born in Livno, Bosnia…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 30th of March, 2020, a product from the Croatian company Poslovna Inteligencija (Business Intelligence), the Data Privacy Manager, has become the first Croatian IT product to be included in the prestigious Forrester Wave report that reviews global products and services for global customers. This home-based software helps businesses address the challenges they face when complying with data protection laws, especially in the area of ​​redundant data removal, where it remains the only solution on the global market that addresses GDPR data erasure. "Protecting the privacy of individuals is one of the main concerns for…

March 30, 2020 - Total Croatia News is delighted to announce that it has joined Robert Tomic Zuber's new R+ project, starting tomorrow.  These are crazy times to be in the media in the Balkans (although, thinking about it, I am not sure there is ever a normal time in this fabulous but troubled region), and the fast pace of change in the way information and media is consumed these days means that news portals will have to adapt or die.  It all seems so different to that distant memory in October 2011, when I opened my laptop with a…

''If someone told me two years ago, when we were working on the BBC Pandemic app, that a pandemic would suddenly become a reality, I'd say there's no way, and well... it's happened,'' says Filip Ljubić, director of the Zagreb software company - Q. As Filip Pavic/Novac writes on the 29th of March, 2020, not knowing that the world was awaiting the current coronavirus pandemic, this Zagreb software company launched a prophetic mobile app called BBC Pandemic, a virtual simulation of the spread of flu from person to person in 2018, in collaboration with the BBC and Cambridge University. The…