New Issue of Lider: Cleansing – 28,000 Bankruptcies in One Year

In one year, the bankruptcy law has introduced order by erasing ‘zombie companies’ and prevented manipulations with pre-bankruptcies. However, the weaknesses of the new regulation are already becoming apparent. Legal experts propose amendments that could prevent new problems, which Edis Felić discusses in the new issue of Lider.

Matilda Bačećić writes about what our entrepreneurs think the new government should prioritize as the first three steps. Entrepreneurs’ responses to the question of what troubles them, what needs to change, and what they expect from politicians have remained unchanged over the years with new elections, as almost none of these problems have been resolved in the meantime, and they would be satisfied with a growth of 4-5 percent…

In the topic of the week, we addressed the issue of personal consumption. Gordana Gelenčer and Tin Bašić argue that it is a misconception that the growth of household consumption stimulates the domestic economy. Europe, in fact, finances consumption that ends up in domestic production with export currencies, while we finance mainly imported products from foreign sources (through borrowing), as we do not have domestic ones. Therefore, it follows that the growth of personal consumption should stem from GDP growth, not the other way around.

In the Companies section, we present Croatian Post. Postal services are growing at the expense of City Exa, but the future lies in packages, so HP’s perspective will depend on the market competition in the delivery of the latter. Therefore, all efforts are focused on building a large sorting center at the entrance to Velika Gorica. Thus, postal workers with their 1,016 post offices intend to compete with Tisak and other competitors.

We also introduce the entrepreneurial family Kaštelan, which has entered the EU cosmetics manufacturers’ register with products made from medicinal herbs. It was quite an adventure when they decided to leave their previous jobs and Rijeka to start their own business, Natura Rab, on Rab. They have dedicated themselves to the ecological production of medicinal herbs, honey, and olive oil. Today, they have 70 different products, some of which they export to Austria and Germany.

In the world section, we write about the experiences of the elections in Spain and what connects them to the situation in our domestic arena, as well as the political situation in Brazil where Michel Temer succeeds Dilma Rousseff after she was voted out of confidence in the Senate.

In the new issue, we also bring a feature from MaGos about micro, small, and medium enterprises.