19.12.2019
Combis opens Bjelovar office
Combis, one of the leading regional high-tech companies, opens an office in Bjelovar Technology Park. This was stated at today's press conference, which was attended by the Mayor of the City of Bjelovar, Dario Hrebak, a member of the Combis’ Management Board Damir Horvat, its representatives Tihomir Blaškić and Zoran Božičević, and the Director of the Bjelovar Technology Park Ivana Jurković Piščević.
Combis focuses on digital transformation technologies for companies, such as Cloud and Big Data platforms, the Internet of Things, and modern communications and security solutions. In this way, it wants to contribute to the community in which the business is located and develop, and Bjelovar as a city that adopts new technologies and creates quality staff in the field of Computer Science at the Polytechnic of Bjelovar is an excellent basis for further development, it was said at the conference.
By coming to Bjelovar, the City will allow Combis free space and overhead through its already recognized “Tax-free” measure, as well as other IT companies that have opened their offices in Bjelovar in the last two years and employed people.
“Your kuna in Bjelovar is worth more than elsewhere. We send this message to all investors every day. The city of Bjelovar wants to be a friend to entrepreneurs, we do not want to take anything from entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial ideas, we only ask them to come and invest in Bjelovar and to hire our young experts from our faculty. I wish to welcome Combis, and I believe that it will be an additional impetus to the development of IT in the city. Our goal is to build a modern 21st-century economy in Bjelovar based on new technologies and to have in seven years an IT sector in Bjelovar that employs over 1000 people. At this pace, this can be achieved, and I am convinced that the decision to abolish the surtax after 18 years will only further add to that,” said Mayor Hrebak.
In the first year of operations, Combis plans to hire ten IT professionals in the Belovar office. It is interesting that one of their mentors will be Bjelovar people who work in the Zagreb office of the company and will thus have the opportunity to return to their hometown. Combis’s management board member Damir Horvat said the reason for coming to Bjelovar was to recognize the excellent work of the City administration and that it is known how much work is being done to make Bjelovar a modern city. Polytechnic, on the other hand, does a great job and it is vital to their business.
“Combis's development strategy is based on investing in people and IT skills, as well as young talents and developing their potential. It is in Bjelovar that we plan to hire young developers and to offer them mentoring by experienced colleagues and work on innovative technologies for them to grow into IT professionals. Thanks to the City of Bjelovar and Mayor Dario Hrebak for supporting the initiative and welcoming Combis to a technology incubator,” said Damir Horvat, Combis’s Management Board member.
The Director of the Technology Park Ivana Jurković Piščević pointed out that Technology Park currently has twelve entrepreneurs on the waiting list for space and that they are intensively working to accommodate them.