In the new issue, discover which 50 companies are the most dangerous challengers

For some incredible reason, possibly just because established retailers persistently repeat it, there is a belief that the Croatian retail market is oversaturated, with too much capacity relative to purchasing power and that there is simply no room for new players. Not a chance! In the retail of consumer goods, new players with undisguised ambitions to disrupt existing relationships appear almost in regular cycles. One such cycle is currently underway, to which we have dedicated the cover story of the new Lider and listed as many as 50 of the most dangerous challenger companies.

The first month of the new government is marked by the sitting on the state account of the fifth tranche of EU funds (€822 million) from the NPOO. Dependence on gifts from Brussels is increasing. The ‘machine’ will break down, and neither politics nor the expert public is working on proposals for what to do when the day after comes, writes this week’s column by Miodrag Šajatović, editor-in-chief of Lider.

In the media space, it is increasingly heard that the green transition is destroying European industry, reducing its competitiveness and requiring large investments. However, for the flagship company of the domestic industry, Končar, this same green transition has brought a true renaissance. On the other hand, the government has announced the adoption of an industrial development strategy, and Gordan Kolak, the CEO of Končar, expects that Končar will also have a say when this strategy is being developed.

As Americans in movies and series like to say,’I only care when I breathe,’ inflation does not represent a major problem if you are not eating. Namely, experts say that as long as there is demand for labor, which there will be for some time, the overall inflation rate will not be so unbearable. As long as you don’t eat too much.

After a dizzying 32% growth in 2022, any single-digit figure for 2023 looks modest. This also applies to the revenue growth of the 1000 largest Croatian companies last year of 8.7%. It sounds even more modest when at the same time the rest of the economy increased revenues by 11% last year, while in 2022 it grew half as much as the largest. These, as well as a number of other data, can be found in the traditional Lider edition ‘1000 largest‘, which comes out at a full 172 pages and will be available to subscribers in digital format, and as a book will be published along with this week’s new issue of Lider.

In the new issue, we analyze the company Entrio, which has transformed from a one-man band into a regional leader in the distribution of future formats. Until the emergence of the small Croatian company Recreated, no one in the EU dealt with the repair and sale of advertised footwear, and the founders, brothers Kristian and Adrian Cvijić, shared their entrepreneurial story with us.