For survival in the market, companies like Bloom Technologies must have their own research and development department that continuously monitors market trends and customer needs and adapts their products accordingly. In the case of Bloom Technologies, production that can keep up with all changes in products, quickly adopt them, and start producing in the most economical way possible is also important. With such a business approach and its offer of solutions for professional ambient cooling and household cooling, the company from Trnovec Bartolovečki near Varaždin is present in the entire European market, and from this year also in the United States.
The products are actually used worldwide as Bloom Technologies places them on the global market through distributors, emphasized Domagoj Cvetko, CEO of Bloom Technologies and director of Oprema Micro Matic. Bloom Technologies is, in fact, a subsidiary of the Ludbreg-based Oprema, whose board member is Tomislav Cvetko, Domagoj Cvetko’s father, and which produces flow coolers for the brewing industry. Since April, Oprema has become part of Danish Micro Matic, the world’s leading manufacturer of solutions in the brewing industry, and the Matić family has remained the owner of Oprema Micro Matic and Bloom Technologies. Over the past ten years, the Cvetko family has received various inquiries from their competitors and customers to join their portfolio, but they avoided that solution until two years ago when they realized that entering a larger company was necessary. At that time, the criterion was that it was a family business, not an investment fund, which is exactly what Micro Matic was as one of their largest customers.
– Micro Matic lacked our product to complete the range of products it has for the beverage and beer industry. Micro Matic insisted that the management and the entire business remain the same while further expanding the business in synergy with Micro Matic, which we also wanted, states Cvetko.
Oprema has its roots in 1945, it received that name in 1963, and in 1976 it launched a program for hospitality equipment after machining, producing equipment for confectionery, laundries, and agricultural machinery. Two years later, an independent production facility for the production of beer tapping and cooling devices was established, and in 1986, the research and development department began working on its products. The company was privatized in 1992, developed production, and expanded, and in 2003 it founded Oprema Intercom, which was renamed Bloom Technologies in 2023. Oprema employs about two hundred people, last year it generated 24.98 million euros in revenue, which is 10.36 percent more than in 2022. Its net profit grew by 171.25 percent, reaching 1.09 million euros. With 49 employees, Bloom Technologies recorded 3.97 million euros in revenue last year and a net profit of 134,319 euros.
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