If a saleswoman in a store hands you the bread you selected with a nervous expression and mutters something grumpily, can you say you had a good shopping experience?
The quality of the bread may not differ from that of a year ago, nor may its price, but you will feel that you are not completely satisfied with the experience you have had. Basic human senses may not have grasped how much the quality of products has changed due to the recession, but from the relationship between employees from various industries and customers, it can be concluded that salary cuts and layoffs have left a mark on the quality of service. Journalists Kristina Kardum and Željka Laslavić in the new issue of the business weekly Lider provide answers to questions on how to cut business costs without the consequences being felt externally.
IN THE NEW ISSUE OF THE BUSINESS WEEKLY LIDER, TAKE A STEP FURTHER AND LEARN MUCH MORE ABOUT CURRENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
Last week was marked by two events. The arrest of Nevenka Jurak, owner of Fimi-media, in Zagreb and in Austria of Wolfgang Kulterer, former CEO of Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank. Journalist Ivica Grčar in his article ‘Šuker and Rohatinski avoid in-depth analysis of Hypo Bank’s placements in Croatia’ uniquely reflected on the Hypo Bank affair through the most common money laundering models. The columnist Višnja also presented her view of the affair in this week’s Political section of Lider. Darko Prebežac has specialized in two completely different yet interdependent industries – transport and tourism. He is currently a permanent professor at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, where he heads the Department of Tourism, elaborating on topics related to everything that Croatian tourism lacks – research of tourist markets, transport policy in tourism, marketing management, strategic marketing, pricing strategies and policies, etc. He is also known as a key figure in branding Umag. If you are interested in answers to questions about the basic prerequisites for creating the image of a location, how Umag became a tourist brand, what the real state of Croatian tourism is, what to do to improve it, and who should lead Croatian tourism, read this week’s interview conducted by Željka Laslavić.
In Croatia, from December 31, the obligation of regular revaluation of the value of business real estate will be applied. A new profession of ‘certified appraiser’ has been introduced. What is it about?! Read in the article ‘Prices are falling, and appraisers are raising them through revaluations’ by Ivica Grčar and Antonija Knežević. ‘Where there are scandals, there he is’, is the title of this week’s Life and Work of Antun Crlenjak, director of Kamensko. He is an entrepreneur who has so many companies behind him that he would deserve a monument if most had not ended up in bankruptcy proceedings. Read more in the article written by journalist Darija Tabulov-Truta. DIV, a small company from Samobor, has shown interest in purchasing Brodosplit. The final decision on the fate of the Split shipyard should be known by September 15. Will a small screw from the Samobor DIV be the key cog in the survival of ships from the Split shipyard? Is small DIV capable of producing large ships? You can seek answers to these questions in the company story by Antonija Knežević. A nightmare for any entrepreneur is collecting their receivables. Times are such that a debtor sometimes even gets angry if asked when they will repay the debt, and there will be even more such cases in Croatia if the bleak forecast of continued recession (-1.5% GDP, according to the estimate of the Vienna Institute) comes true. The number of clients for debt collection companies has increased by 30%, and journalist Edis Felić reveals who the legal debt collectors are. Edis has also written this week’s ‘revival’, a story about managers, athletes, doctors, and lawyers who increasingly invest excess money in purchasing agricultural land. Read about the new generation of landowners in the article ‘Investing in a hobby that creates a business concern’.
