“In the future, an insurance company should offer a much wider range of services than just insurance itself. With a bit of exaggeration, I would say that a good insurance agent should know your overall situation and needs and offer you a solution. They should take care of you in a way similar to a family doctor.” We are talking to Petr Žaba, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Česká podnikatelská pojišťovna (ČPP), responsible for the back office. Apart from insurance administration, claims processing and IT services, he is also in charge of product development. He is no newcomer at ČPP: he was the director of the Fleets Administration Division for almost ten years starting in 2011 and helped turn it into one of the company’s leading segments. Regardless of the question asked, his answers clearly reflect a creative mind with a strong client focus.
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Kenssy Dwi Ekaningsih has served as the country’s ambassador to the Czech Republic since 2019, giving her extensive experience in our bilateral relations. In the interview for TRADE NEWS, she encourages Czech companies with advanced technologies particularly in transportation, industry and environmental sectors to give more focus to investment projects in Indonesia.
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“We are crazy about airplanes. Otherwise, this wouldn’t work,” Alena Medová, Chairman of the Board at Aircraft Industries, begins our conversation. It was precisely this passion for aviation and the responsibility for the tradition built by past generations that led Richard Háva, head of the Omnipol Group, to take a risk three years ago. He decided not to let the renowned Czech brand fall, and bought Aircraft Industries from its Russian owner. The Kunovice-based company had faced existential difficulties after sanctions were imposed on Russia, which was almost its only market at the time. The famous L 410 aircraft thus effectively returned home after many years. Richard Háva’s vision was not only to save this legendary turboprop aircraft, of which Omnipol had historically sold hundreds around the world, but also to return it to where it belongs – the global market.
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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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“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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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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