Business

December the 22nd, 2022 - The Rijeka IT company Appon continued to experience enormous growth last year, and the need for more employees is only increasing. As Borivoje Dokler/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Croatian IT companies are achieving notable results on the market today, but society is always looking for a little more and a little more. The Rijeka IT company Appon managed to give that little bit more which is always being sought, and with it; they started the Academy for the training of IT experts. According to the Rijeka IT company Appon, the reason for starting the Academy is very…

December the 20th, 2022 - The Croatian Infosit software company is celebrating twenty years of doing business, and planning to tackle the demanding European Union (EU) market next. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the very first more complex software from the Croatian Infosit company was launched from the living room of the founder Goran Mrvos in Varvari near Porec in Istria, and now, they're rightfully celebrate two decades of doing very successful business. The Croatian Infosit software company started functionong 20 years ago with just two employees, and today it has 25 experts creating, as they say, robust platforms that are at…

December the 20th, 2022 - The Croatian gaming studio Gamepires is set to become part of the large and very well known global game developer and publisher Jagex, which announced the acquisition of the Zagreb company describing it with superlatives. The Croatian gaming scene has come on leaps and bounds over the last five years or so, with the unlikely location (in the opinion of many) of Novska in continental Croatia becoming the very heart of the Croatian gaming scene. Many companies and studios have since popped up all over the country, and slowly but surely Croatia is becoming as…

December 18, 2022 - Looking for a job in Croatia? A new weekly feature on TCN, in partnership with leading job site agency, Posao.hr, who present a selection of weekly job listings. How hard is it to find a job in Croatia, and what is on offer? We spoke to Ines Bokan, director of leading jobs site Posao.hr, who kindly took the time for this excellent interview overview.   Ines has kindly agreed to work with us on a new weekly feature on TCN - a weekly selection of 10 job listings, as chosen by Posao.hr.  Details and links to the…

December the 15th, 2022 - The Croatian Treci Maj shipyard is set to complete a vessel which started being worked on fifteen whole years ago in Russia for another client. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the Croatian Treci Maj shipyard has contracted the completion of the construction of a massive chemical tanker with a capacity of 45,000 tonnes for the company Viterlef Management, and with this and other contracted jobs, capacities have been ensured for the next year, and new jobs are still being negotiated. The above was conveyed by the assistant director for commercial affairs of Treci Maj, Sinisa Ostojic, saying…

December the 15th, 2022 - The Zadar Turisthotel is set to invest 113 million euros into its offer and facilities over the coming five years, aimed at not only improvement but sustainability. As Marija Crnjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, over the next half a decade, the Zadar Turistihotel plans to invest 113 million euros in the renovation and construction of new accommodation facilities and entertainment, which was approved by the company's Supervisory Board and presented by the Management Board on Tuesday at the first open day for Turisthotel shareholders. Financial strength "Since we started with the construction of a new entertainment and catering…

December the 13th, 2022 - The Croatian startup SimpleMatic has successfully designed a solution for one of the most irritating issues still faced by a large domestic pharma company. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Josipa Ban writes, JGL, the very well-known Croatian pharmaceutical company, continues to face a very specific problem when it comes to the production process. Every four hours, as was explained by Mate Poropat, the director of JGL's pharmaceutical-technological operations, they have to change the sedimentation plates in the monitoring procedure. This process is still done manually and costs the company a lot of money and time. "We want to…

December the 13th, 2022 - The Croatian SysKit software company has managed to successfully attract an impressive nine million US dollars in investment, financed by the British. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the Croatian SysKit, based here in the City of Zagreb, secured a nine million dollar investment that will be used for the internationalisation of its business operations and the further development of the company. As part of this investment, which was financed by the British investment fund Cade Hill Investments, they opened an office in the affluent English city of Cambridge, which is where they moved their headquarters to. "This…

December 10, 2022 - Looking for a job in Croatia? A new weekly feature on TCN, in partnership with leading job site agency, Posao.hr, who present a selection of weekly job listings. How hard is it to find a job in Croatia, and what is on offer? We spoke to Ines Bokan, director of leading jobs site Posao.hr, who kindly took the time for this excellent interview overview.   Ines has kindly agreed to work with us on a new weekly feature on TCN - a weekly selection of 10 job listings, as chosen by Posao.hr.  Details and links to the…

December the 8th, 2022 - Croatian innovator Albert Gajsak's product, which is made right here in Croatia, has ended up across the pond on the shelves of American stores. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, young Croatian innovator Albert Gajsak of Circuitmess was a recent guest on N1 television where he talked about breaking into the challenging American market of educational toys. This rather remarkable entrepreneur explained how his Croatian product ended up on the shelves of one of the largest US retail chains of all - Walmart. "We produce electronic devices that serve to educate children, such as legos with electronics.…