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There is a total of 125 new companies which entered the rankings of top 500 ending with Primabiro, a company ranked 500th with 3.3 million euro in value added. Among those that disappeared from the list is first of all T-Mobile Croatia, not due to a dramatic fall of its business results but because of a merger between T-Mobile and T-HT. The same occurred with Slavonska banka which was merged with Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank. While these cases are the result of administrative reasons, Pevec and Đakovšina have disappeared from the rankings due to bankruptcy of their business operations. Some major names from the domestic business arena, which were ranked in top 50 in 2008 only to disappear from the same rankings in 2009, are the following: HEP Distribution System Operator (ranked fourth in 2008), Atlantska plovidba, Pliva Hrvatska, affair-stricken Podravka, Croatian Motorways, Petrokemija, Konstruktor-engineering and Mercator-H.

Observing trends disclosed by this year’s top 500 company ranking in Croatia places Omco Croatia first in terms of average value added increase in the last five years by 387 percent. This company from Hum na Sutli has been a part of the Belgium-located Omco International Group, a leading European and world manufacturer of glass packaging tools since 1997. It is ranked 185th on this year’s top rankings with a 28 million euro of recorded income i.e. a 6% decrease and a slightly more significant drop of productivity and profits. These figures did not stop it from taking the lead in this category as well as in terms of the largest average revenue and employee growth according to five-year figures.

In terms of the highest five-year growth of value added, this company is followed by Ytres, a textile company from Donji Knežine recording a 299.9% growth, Mana Moda and Media from Zagreb. Among those which showed the highest long-term increase, top rank takes Zagrebački holding with a 171% increase of value added (third among top 500). Among ten companies which recorded the highest five-year increase of value added is Croz IT company, Prvi faktor, 24sata, Unicredit Leasing Croatia and Alpafan construction from Dubrovnik.

In terms of productivity growth in the last five years, best results were recorded by Media (167 percent) and Ytres (91 percent), followed by Porsche leasing, C.I.O.S., and Coop Supermarkets.

In terms of income change in a five-year period, the highest 327 percent increase was recorded by Ytres, followed by Zagrebački Holding, Mana Moda, 24sata and Stipić Construction Group.

In terms of average export estimate, the best ranked is Glaxosmithkline Research Center with a 180 percent growth, followed by Elektrometal, Orbico, Pograd engineering and STSI. Besides Omco, which profits have increased by an average 620 percent from 2005, biggest winners also include Atlantic Group (445 percent), Oracle Croatia, Alfapan Construction and Geofoto.

In terms of employee number, besides 33,690 eura. To je jedino drugo mjesto Grada Zagreba jer prema svim ostalim kriterijima (prihodi, dobit, izvoz, zapošleni) ta je županija lider. Novostvorena je vrijednost zagrebačkih kompanija 5,68 milijardi eura, a sljedeća na listi – Istarska županija – ima 500 milijuna eura novostvorene vrijednosti.

Znatan je pad s druge strane zabilježila Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija, koja je bila na osmom, a sada je na 14. mjestu s udjelom nižim od jedan posto (prije 2,1 posto) i šest tvrtki manje nego 2008. iako je ostvareni prihod 14 posto veći.

Tvrtke sa sjedištem u Zagrebu u ukupnoj dobiti 500 najboljih sudjeluju sa 67,6 posto, a prosječno su ostvarile 4,46 milijuna eura dobiti. Slijedi Istarska županija s prosječnom dobiti po kompaniji od 4,02 milijuna eura i Primorsko-goranska s gotovo upola manjom dobiti po tvrtki od 2,32 milijuna eura. Gotovo pola izvoza ostvaruje Grad Zagreb, koji zaposljava 168,655 radnika, odnosno 54 posto ukupno zaposlenih u 500 najboljih kompanija. Drugi najveći je poslodavac Primorsko-goranska županija pa Splitsko-dalmatinska.

U novostvorenoj vrijednosti, prema sektorima, najveći udjel imaju poslovne banke (13,3 posto), slijedi građevinarstvo sa 7,1 posto te maloprodaja sa 6,8 posto, koju su u 2009. prestigle telekomunikacije izguravši je tako na četvrto mjesto. Od 500 najboljih kompanija više od 40 posto posluje.