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March 13, 2022 - Petra Marčinko has won her first professional singles title! This comes after the 16-year-old tennis sensation was named the world's best junior in 2021 and won the Australian Open Juniors in January.  Petra Marčinko is the winner of the ITF tennis tournament in Antalya, Turkey! On Sunday, the best junior tennis player in the world from Zagreb fought for her first title in a senior competition at the $25,000 ITF tournament in Antalya, Turkey. The 16-year-old reached her premier title in professional singles tournaments after defeating France's Carole Monnet (279th on the WTA list) convincingly in two sets…

March 13, 2022 - A young Japanese ballerina in Rijeka has already taken the stage in many HNK Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka performances. Meet Soyoka Iwata, who swapped Tokyo for Rijeka to launch her professional career.  Everyone who follows the ballet performances of the HNK Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka could notice a young ballerina from Japan. Her name is Soyoka Iwata, and she has performed in "Lace" and "The Rite of Spring" by Maša Kolar, "Nutcracker" by Mauro de Candia, "Odyssey" by Walter Matteini, and "Pathetic" by Douglas Lee. She will perform again on March 16 in "Mediterranean Trilogy: Pulcinella & Afternoon of a…

March 13, 2022 - Legendary former Croatia water polo player Damir Burić played an official game for Pula's KK Stoja against Rijeka's Kvarner Junior in the 16th round of the Second League - West on Saturday night.  The 41-year-old talks about why he swapped the pool for the court.  It was a historic Saturday for Pula sports and Stoja basketball, as the famous Pula water polo player Damir Burić joined them on the Stoja primary school court. Burić was a significant part of Pula water polo history back when the city was without a pool. He won everything possible with the…

March the 13th, 2022 - The concessionaire of Zagreb International Airport (Dr. Franjo Tudjman Airport) has introduced a total ban on taking videos and/or photos at the Croatian border itself. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the concessionaire of Zagreb International Airport, MZLZ d.d., confirmed the above for avioradar, which covers all things related to aviation in not only the Republic of Croatia but the entire wider region. "Regarding your request [for this information], we are able to inform you that through its internal channels and to all of the necessary addresses, on Tuesday, March the 8th, 2022, Zagreb International Airport forwarded…

March the 13th, 2022 - Croatian juices made by the very well known Stanic Group (Grupa) will soon be able to be enjoyed by the residents and visitors of both Oman and Doha following success at the recent event in Dubai. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, at the recently held Dubai Expo, the Stanic Group presented its Croatian juices with an emphasis on Juicy 100% juices from the Stanic Beverages range and Maraschino and Pelinkovac from the Maraska range. Juicy 100% juices have been present in the Middle East for five years now, and are mostly represented in HoReCa channels in Dubai…

March the 13th, 2022 - Hrvatski Telekom/Croatian Telecom (HT) and Nokia were among the first in the entire world to test advanced 25G PON optical technology in the HT Rijeka lab. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, this is the latest generation of optical network, which increases the speed of download and transmission to unprecedented levels, and with this test, the Rijeka lab measured a speed of 20 gigabits per second. 25G PON technology is otherwise ten times faster than GPON technology, which was enabled by HT for the first time with gigabit broadband access back in 2007, then again but two…

March the 13th, 2022 - An online publication has detailed the ongoing process of the Rijeka military fortification renovation project which is set to breathe new life into these old and often neglected structures. As Morski writes, in order to transform the slowly deteriorating cultural heritage in Rijeka, as well as lead its transformation for the purpose of cultural tourism, the cross-border project ''Revival'' was launched, as part of which the old Rijeka military fortification was restored. The Revival project was implemented within the INTERREG VA Italy-Croatia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020, which aims to revitalise and placed back into use…

March 13, 2022 - On the last day of the Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing, Croatia's representative was skier Damir Mizdrak, who won seventh place in the slalom for the blind and visually impaired, which is his best result in major competitions. This was Mizdrak's third Paralympic Games after Sochi (2014) and PyeongChang (2018). So far, his best slalom ranking was ninth place four years ago in Korea, while he took 11th place in Sochi. He is eighth and ninth from the world championships, reports HRT. The victory went to Italian Giacomo Bertagnolli, in second was Austrian Johannes Aigner with 28…

March 12th, 2022 - TCN intern Toni Petričić takes a look at the Croatian beer industry in 2020.  In this industry overview, I will try to analyze the Croatian beer industry and show its structure, the most prominent players, trends, and position compared to other beer markets. From the latest statistical report from the European Brewers association, we can see that there are 98 breweries registered in Croatia, which had a total of 1690 direct employees.  In 2020, the Croatian beer industry shrunk by 12% compared to 2019, according to Heineken Hrvatska financial reports.  The pandemic year was marked by…

ZAGREB, 12 March 2022 - In 2020, textile businesses netted HRK 81 million in profits, up 42.4% on the year, according to the Financial Agency. That year there were 334 textile businesses with 3,521 employees. Their revenues totalled HRK 1.6 billion, down 4.2% on 2019, while expenditures were HRK 1.5 billion, down 5.6%. Profits totalled HRK 99.5 million (+17.1%), while losses were HRK 18.6 million (-34.1%). Most of the textile businesses operated in Zagreb (84), followed by Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (33) and Krapina-Zagorje County (27). The average net monthly pay was HRK 4,618, up 5.6% from 2019 but down 22.7% from the…