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Production at Pivovarna Laško brewery. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Slovenian businesses generated €6.7 billion in aggregate net profit in 2023, the highest figure yet, in what AJPES, the agency for public legal records, says testifies to the resilience of the Slovenian economy. Value added was also up, on flat revenue.
AJPES data show the aggregate net profit as t
The headquarters of the NLB bank. Photo: STA
Slovenia's largest banking group NLB is planning to double its total assets, revenue and profit by the end of 2030, to reach target figures of €50 billion, €2 billion and €1 billion, respectively.
The plans were set out as the bank presented its new strategy at an investor conference on 9 May, wit
The logo of Panvita, the Slovenian agri-food group. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
Croatian services company Mplus has acquired a 51% stake in Panvita, Slovenia's leading agri-food company, through a €50 million capital injection. The transaction is conditional on regulatory approval.
"The two groups are partnering up to position the new group as a leader in the food industry in
An electric minibus developed and built by eVersum Technologies in the Maribor area. Photo: eVersum Technologies
eVersum Technologies, a company based in Austria's Graz, has been developing and producing electric minibuses across the border in the Maribor area for several years now, carving out a niche for itself in the international commercial vehicles market.
CEO Holger Postl describes eVersum as a Slovenia
The freeze-dried barley dish that Slovenian students made for an astronaut's breakfast in a NASA competition. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Third place for Slovenians in astronaut food cup

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Slovenian students have won third place in the NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge, a competition where students come up with innovative meals for astronauts.
The Slovenian team, the first non-American team in the history of the competition, consisted of two students from BIC Ljubljana, an educational ce
Glovo food courier's backpack. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Delivery service Glovo has announced it is leaving the Slovenian market on 10 May. The decision was made on the basis of a "reassessment of the company's priority investments."
"We thank you for all your orders on the Glovo app. We are grateful for the opportunity to deliver to you," the company sa
Norwegian lunches flights between Ljubljana and Copenhagen. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Low-cost airline Norwegian has launched a twice-weekly service between Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport and Copenhagen.
Norwegian will initially fly between the Slovenian and Danish capitals Mondays and Fridays, and during the peak summer season Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Airport operator Fraport Sloveni
Melamin factory in Kočevje before the 2022 fire. Photo: Aleš Kocjan/STA
The Kočevje chemical company Melamin returned to profit in 2023 after posting its first loss in decades the year before largely owing a deadly explosion in May 2022. The company has restored the bulk of its production capacities.
The company reported nearly €1.1 million in profit for 2023, bouncing
Vienna, Austria, capital. Photo: Xinhua/STA
Austria is the favourite career destination for Slovenians, while Slovenia is the most desired job destination for workers from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, a survey by employment portal Mojedelo.com and the Boston Consulting Group has shown.
The survey, conducted among 150,000 respondents from 1
Kanin ski resort. Photo: Primorski val/STA
Kanin, Slovenia's only true high-altitude ski resort, which was closed this winter after failing to extend its cable car permit, is reportedly eyed by a Serbian investor linked to the Jahorina resort in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The newspaper Delo reported on 26 April that government officials had been c
First AirBaltic aircraft welcomed at Ljubljana airport. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
The first airBaltic flight from Riga touched down at Ljubljana airport as the Latvian flag carrier launched scheduled flights between the two capitals on 25 April.
AirBaltic will fly between Riga and Ljubljana twice a week, expectedly until the end of 2025.
Around two-thirds of the Airbus A220-300
Yaskawa lays the foundation stone for two new facilities in Kočevje. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
The Japanese robotics company Yaskawa has laid the foundation stone for two new facilities next to its existing robots plant in Kočevje, south Slovenia, in an investment valued at €32 million.
Yaskawa, which also operates two plants in Ribnica nearby, will build a European robot distribution centre