Time/Venue:  Presentation to be held on 20th August from 1030-1230 in meeting room 8.

The presentation will be held in English by Mr Malvin Villabø, CEO of CroNoMar d.o.o, Croatia. The attendance is free of charge.

CroNoMar d.o.o. is a Norwegian-owned innovation company in Croatia, founded with the aim of identifying and realizing new business opportunities in order to establish partnerships between Norwegian and Croatian companies within the marine/maritime sector and related industries.

The company’s CEO, Norwegian Malvin Villabø, says: “Our mission is to make connections between such companies as well as to assist them in establishing and carrying out real operational partnerships from an early stage through to commercialization with focus on creating and promoting new business activities (including identifying potential relevant business partners in Croatia, providing QA both for partners and products/ services, providing supervision activities, etc.)”.

“Furthermore, CroNoMar is managing an innovating incubator in the Maritime Innovation Centre in Šibenik – iNavis. As an integrated innovation network, CroNoMar is assisting start-up companies and existing companies through consulting, courses and networking” says Villabø.

Cronomar has recently founded a subsidiary company Marin Globe d.o.o., which is a trading company with an operational purchaser role between Croatian manufacturers and customers outside Croatia with focus on price, quality and availability of aftersales services. The company is providing services such as purchasing of marine equipment in a global market for global clients.

The participation of CroNoMar at the international aquaculture technology exhibition Aqua Nor in August 2015 in Trondheim, Norway, is part of an economic mission from Croatia and has been co-financed by the Croatian Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts Programme „Entrepreneurial impulse“. The objective of this economic mission is to present the potential of Croatia and Croatian companies as well as Croatian products and services at the international market, to exchange business
information, connect with future partners, establish new contacts and realize partnerships.