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Turkish AK Automotice Expanding Production in Koper, Slovenia

AK Automotive, a Turkish-owned company, will expand its production to Koper, Slovenia where it has purchased a production facility planning to invest more than EUR 20 million within a year. @ Pierre Châtel-Innocenti from Unsplash The company manufactures car parts for Audi, Daimler, Volkswagen and Aston Martin. Apart from the existing facility, the company intends

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Slovenian firm building a EUR 40 m wind farm in Norther Macedonia

The Slovenian energy group Interenergo and the investment firm Trigal will be building a 30MW wind farm in North Macedonia. The EUR 40 million investment will be built in Bogdanci in the south-east of the country. @ Brady Bellini from Unsplash The new wind farm will produce energy sufficient to supply 18,000 households and is

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Slovenian Cleanshelf company acquired by German IT company

The German software company LeanIX has acquired the Slovenian-US owned Cleanshelf, a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) management provider. By acquiring the San Francisco-based Cleanshelf, LeanIX will become the leading provider with comprehensive solutions in SaaS management. @ Austin Distel from Unsplash Cleanshelf will integrate its product into the LeanIX portfolio. LeanIX has 300 employees and 400

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New hospitality bill to tighten rules on Slovenia’s Airbnb properties

A new hospitality bill that has recently been sent into public consultation brings stricter rules for renting out flats and houses to tourists on platform such as Airbnb. Service providers will have to get registered, have an identification number, and obtain certain permits, while facing high fines for breaking the new rules. @ Andrea Davis

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Hisense Gorenje recruiting new people as orders grow

Gorenje, the Velenje based maker of household applicanes and TV sets now part of Chinese group Hisense is reporting increasing orders and is therefore hiring additional workers. The company already has 750 employees and an additional 50 will be emplpyed in April. @ Kam Idris from Unsplash Hisense Gorenje reports that as orders are increasing

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