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as a technical service provider operating in
all Europe. An intensive market analysis with
special regard to the competitive situation
showed that there are good market chances.
“Success won’t be long in coming with
motivated well-qualified regional partners
and employees who know the market,“ said
the Chairman of the Board of TÜV AUSTRIA
HOLDING AG, Dr. Hugo Eberhardt, in his
analysis and he also indicated the direction
for the development in the coming years.
“Our objective is to offer medium-term the
entire service portfolio of TÜV AUSTRIA
SERVICES GMBH in Croatia. There is also the
strategic thinking of cost advantages and of
offering in the long run TÜV AUSTRIA services
in a competitive manner via branches
in Poland, Turkey and Croatia.”
In the end we found a suitable partner for
a joint venture in Croatia in the company GT
GLOBALNA TEHNIKA d.o.o. GT GLOBALNA
TEHNIKA is a company which is well anchored
in the scientific technical area – some
partners work as professors at the technical
faculty of Zagreb University – and also has
an excellent reputation in the Croat economy,
especially in companies which manufacture
welded structures.
In combination with the know-how and the
experience of TÜV AUSTRIA there was
the best basis to create a company which
will very quickly find its place in the Croat
economy. Starting with the business areas
of pressure equipment, material testing and
welding technology and with the certification
of management systems will bring quick
success. Other business areas will follow.
The headquarters of the company will be in
the capital Zagreb, the dynamic economic
centre of Croatia.
The TÜV AUSTRIA group is proud of its
youngest child. The Austrian customers can
therefore also use the services of TÜV
AUSTRIA in Croatia in the quality and
reliability they have come to expect.
“We want to offer our customers our services
wherever we can be of assistance und where
our expert knowledge is needed; there are
still many more opportunities for further
growth of the TÜV AUSTRIA group“ – that’s
how Dr. Eberhardt, Chairman of the TÜV Board,
announced further steps for expansion,
but Croatia is particularly close to us. x
14 TÜV TIMES No. 2 | JUNE 2010
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Foto: TÜV AUSTRIA
Foto: Jelačića
Das kroatische Team v.l.n.r.: Prof. Ph.D. Slobodan Kralj, Dipl.-Ing. Jadranka Eržišnik, Prof. Dr. SC. Zoran Kožuh
Kombiniert mit dem Know-How und der Erfahrung
des TÜV AUSTRIA ist somit ein Unternehmen
entstanden, das sehr rasch seinen
Platz in der kroatischen Wirtschaft finden
wird. Der Aufbau wird mit den Geschäftsbereichen
Druckgeräte, Werkstoffund
Schweißtechnik und Zertifizierung von
Managementsystemen begonnen. Weitere
Geschäftsbereiche werden folgen. Sitz des
Unternehmens wird die Hauptstadt Zagreb,
das pulsierende wirtschaftliche Zentrum
Kroatiens sein.
Die TÜV AUSTRIA Gruppe ist stolz auf ihr
jüngstes Kind. Unsere österreichischen Kun-
den können somit auch in Kroatien auf die
Dienstleistungen des TÜV AUSTRIA in gewohnter
Qualität und Zuverlässigkeit zurückgreifen.
„Wir wollen unseren Kunden unsere Dienstleistungen
überall dort anbieten, wo wir unterstützend
tätig sei können und unsere
Expertise gebraucht wird, es gibt noch viele
Möglichkeiten zu weiterem Wachstum
der TÜV AUSTRIA Gruppe“ kündigt TÜV-
Vorstandsvorsitzender Eberhardt weitere
Expansionsschritte an, „aber Kroatien liegt
uns besonders am Herzen“.
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