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MIVALT: Symbiosis of economic and environmental sustainability

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Up to eighty percent of the wastewater treatment and sludge processing equipment produced by the family-owned company MIVALT is made for export. “Our largest market is the US, where we sell about half of our total production, followed by other developed economies. Step by step, we are also entering the promising but so far less motivated territories of Southeast Asia and Africa, including the Indonesian market,” says Miroslav Skalický, MIVALT’s sales director. We talked to Mr. Skalický and the youngest member of the Mívalt family, Jan.

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Jitka Haubová: ICC calls on governments for pragmatism and de-escalationWe want trade based on rules, not power pressure

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“At the international level, the ICC in Paris is intensively engaged in issues related to the introduction of tariff measures that have been announced and presented by the new US administration – and thus the very real risk that these measures could trigger a harmful global trade war.” We spoke with Jitka Haubová, Chairwoman of the National Committee of the ICC Czech Republic and member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s top management, who has just returned from the ICC headquarters in Paris.

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We want our clients to come back to usTo be a partner who is there to help when needed

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They say that Dagmar Poláchová has a knack for quickly finding out what's wrong in a company and why it's not doing as well as its management would like. When I asked her how she does it, her answer was straightforward: "Many years of diverse professional experience have taught me how to ask the right questions - and most importantly, how to listen. Listening is often overlooked." Companies typically call her when something isn’t working, expecting her to diagnose and fix the problem. More precisely, she specializes in implementing comprehensive transformation strategies. Sustainable ones, as she emphasizes.

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We break records in trade exchange

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It is an interesting fact that Berislav Vekić, the Serbian Ambassador to the Czech Republic, is also a renowned surgeon and university professor, who has raised several young and promising surgeons in Serbia. He also boasts a great career in healthcare management. From his own experience, he argues that medicine and diplomacy have many common grounds and synergies, which has been confirmed in practice by many (not only) Serbian diplomats. We talked to Mr. Vekić a few days after the Czech Prime Minister’s official visit to Serbia.

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We are always interested in potentialSerbia has it

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“Business models must adapt to market developments,” argues Ludvík Machala, founder and CEO of ProSpánek. When the golden era of direct sales through call centres was coming to an end, he decided on an ambitious plan to build a retail chain that would offer comprehensive solutions for healthy sleeping. They did it first in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, later in Poland and Hungary, and most recently, Serbia joined the group in 2022. “Serbia was a logical choice for us when looking for further expansion eastward. It is a country with a rapidly developing economy open to the whole world. And we are always interested in potential.”

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