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TRADE AND INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCY RANKED AMONG TOP 25 WORLD AGENCIES

Trade and Investment Promotion Agency according to the newest World Bank research is for the first time ranked among top 25 Investment Promotion Agencies in the competition of 181 countries.

FIAS Global Investment Promotion Benchmark (GIPB) index measures efficiency of national agencies under the criteria of informativeness, web page appearance and contents, as well as the productivity of managing foreign investors? inquiries. Assessment was made by independent foreign experts in period between May and September 2008, without prior notice of the research.

It is important to notice that APIU has found itself along with very developed countries like Austria, which is at the same time ranked first, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Great Britain etc. As for the transition countries, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary and Czech Republic are along with Croatia ranked among top 25.

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60 MILLION OF KUNAS FROM ISRAEL INVESTORS IS GOING TO INVESTED IN THE NEW AQUAPARK NEAR GOSPIĆ

15. 1. 2010. -

60 MILLION OF KUNAS FROM ISRAEL INVESTORS IS GOING TO INVESTED IN THE NEW AQUAPARK NEAR GOSPIĆ

In the Široka Kula near Gospić, investors from Israel is going to build an ecologic aqua park in which is going to be invest 60 million kunas, and it will be the biggest investment in Ličko Senjska Županija after building highways.

Park is planned to be built on 75.000 square meters. Aqua park project is presented in Gospić by the Israel investors Mr Nimrod Sofer and Mr Lahov Jaohim. They expressed satisfaction with the help offered by town Gospić in the realization of this project, and they also emphasized that this kind of support is one of the biggest they meet in the realization of their project in the world.

Source:Slobodna Dalmacija, 15/01/10, [str.25, A4]