In the new issue of Lider, find out how to smartly restructure your company

Restructuring has become almost a taboo topic in Croatia, as most people immediately think of those things no one wants to consider – cutting costs, optimizing the number of employees, and similar. However, restructuring does not always have to be an exhausting process, but rather an opportunity for your company to become more advanced and stronger. Every company must be aware that it can always be better, and in the new issue of Lider, the theme of the issue is ‘Restructuring – Grow a Milking Cow’ where you will learn interesting information about several domestic companies that capitalize on innovative ideas and do not adhere to traditional business approaches. 

In the new issue of Lider, read about the topic of electricity prices for entrepreneurs and why we have never followed the examples of the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, and even Poland, which have significantly lower electricity prices (the Netherlands and Czech Republic almost 50 percent) for businesses? This question is particularly difficult now as we pay the price of pandemic measures and the war in Ukraine.

In recent years, the whole world has experienced traumatic experiences due to the emergence of the pandemic that has shaken markets, people, and minds. Cultures, ways of doing business have changed, and somehow we have gotten used to always being on guard because we do not know what awaits us around the corner. Sometimes it is an earthquake, sometimes war, and there is no trace of reason. Values on which the world we enjoy today was built are being lost, and a polarizing mood among people has prevailed globally – and arguments have never been more meaningless. Lider’s Gordana Gelenčer spoke with Karlo Jurak, a political consultant who believes that currently two freedoms are under attack – the liberal freedom by deprivation and the democratic by self-appointment of experts. 

There is never a right time to start your own business. Some start while they still have baby teeth, some before retirement, and some immediately create another business from one. What remains carved in stone, unlike the age at which someone should start entrepreneurship, is that most share the same characteristic – the need to overcome new challenges. Lider’s Donatella Pauković spoke with several Croatian entrepreneurs who leave behind various careers and interesting stories, sharing almost the same interest and love for running their own businesses, and you can learn more about this in the new issue of the weekly. 

While some sectors struggle to survive turbulent periods in the market and the impending recession that has already knocked on the door, there are those who have never had it better. Global giants like Booking.com rarely go public with data about their business in specific markets, and when they do, it is usually reports about periods far in the past. However, this year’s financial results of Booking.com for the first quarter show that global gross bookings for the summer period were 15 percent higher than in 2019 at the same time. Additionally, bookings in Western Europe increased by more than thirty percent, commented Maja Vikario, regional manager of Booking.com for the new issue of Lider.

When we mention the concept of fermentation, most of us immediately think of traditional recipes such as sauerkraut, good homemade beer, or top-quality wine. The ancient Egyptians fermented in their clay barrels, but it seems that the combination of traditional with modern today and old methods turns into a good business. Bruno Balen and Nika Pintar are the founders of the startup Cidrani, which operates in the healthcare sector, and are currently investing heavily in the development of machine learning models for personalizing fermented micronutrients and their own AI assistant AI. Lider’s Kata Pranić spoke with them for the new issue of the weekly, and they revealed that they believe they will double the average expected health span of their users by 2040. 

Amazon has gone shopping again. The company founded in 1994 ‘in a garage’ by Jeff Bezos is now one of the tech giants that occasionally buys large companies, retail chains, or film studios – and ultimately turns them into its own branches. Recently, they also acquired iRobot, the maker of the world’s most popular vacuum cleaner. Amazon will thus earn not only from the sale of devices but will also gain the data that these devices contain. iRobot’s CEO Colin Angle will continue to lead the company despite the acquisition, and critics warn that Amazon has become much more than a company engaged in online sales – today it is also involved in surveillance. More about this was written for Lider’s weekly by Valentina Starčević. 

Summer time also brings our column ‘Summer Trend’, and in this issue discover how the Barbie doll has become politically correct. The social trend called ‘Barbiecore’ is increasingly being searched on the internet, and Barbie has overnight become a symbol of strength and diversity, wrote our Marta Premužak.