One of the world's most famous wine regions, Bordeaux may soon add a red grape variety grown in southwest Slovenia to the list allowed in its wines to counter the effect of climate change.
Refošk, known as refosco in Italian, is a grape family that yields a popular red wine variety native to the Is
Slovenia's natural gas wholesaler Geoplin and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan - SOCAR have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in gas supply as Slovenia seeks to make its supplies more reliable and diversified.
The memorandum was signed as Bojan Kumer, the Slovenian minister of
The Croatian retailer Studenac has signed a contract to acquire the Šentjur-based grocery chain Kea in a bid to enter the Slovenian retail market. The deal still has to be cleared by the Slovenian market regulator.
Kea, which has own stores but also runs a number of Tuš franchises, employs around 2
Hartenberg Holding, an investment company co-owned by former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, has become the sole owner of Adria Tehnika, an aircraft maintenance company that used to be part of the now defunct Slovenian flag carrier.
Hartenberg Holding has been the sole owner of Adria Tehnika sin
NLB, Slovenia's leading bank, has raised its voluntary takeover bid for the Austrian Addiko Bank from €20 to €22 per share, reduced by the amount of any dividend between the announcement of the bid and settlement. This values the Austrian bank at €429 million.
"This attractive 10% improvement of th
Prices of two top selling types of fuel at filling stations off the motorway network in Slovenia rose on 16 July after the government raised margins following appeals by fuel retailers to do so.
Over the next two weeks regular petrol off motorways will be sold at €1.514 per litre, up by 3.5 cents,
Researcher Matjaž Humar from Slovenia's Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) has won a €150,000 Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a project aiming to produce lasers from edible materials so they could be used as sensors in food, medicines and other products.
Humar from the
The Novo Mesto-based pharma group Krka reported a 30% year-on-year increase in net profit for the first six months of the year just as the shareholders' meeting approved a record dividend payout.
According to preliminary financials released on 11 July, Krka posted a net profit of €222 million in th
The Ljubljana-based bread and pasta company Žito, owned since 2015 by the Croatian food group Podravka, has invested €9 million in renovating its bakery facility in Maribor which the company says is a step on the path of making it the largest baker in Slovenia.
The project completes a €16.2 million
