The average growth rate of the 1000 largest companies in Croatia based on revenue achieved last year was close to 20 percent. In addition to companies in the energy sector, whose average growth was nearly 60 percent, a significant contribution to such a high overall average, for understandable reasons, came from the restaurant and hotel sector (growth of 95 percent) and real estate business (86 percent). On the other hand, an average decline in revenue was recorded only in the water supply and drainage activities (0.6 percent) and security and defense (0.9 percent). This year’s list of the 1000 largest includes 134 companies that had lower revenue last year than the year before, but any comparison with 2020, in which most companies operated at a loss, is inappropriate this time.
Individually, the first company among the 1000 largest that had lower revenue in 2021 than the previous year is found only in 48th place on the ranking list. This is Zagrebački holding, whose revenue fell by 3.7 percent. Just below it is another such case, PIK Vrbovec plus, a company from the Fortenova group, whose revenue last year amounted to 1.83 billion kuna, or 1.7 percent less than the year before. Among the hundred largest companies, there are only two companies that failed to reach the revenues of 2020, Telemach Hrvatska (-2.1 percent) and Narodni trgovački lanac (-3.3 percent).
