UBIUDR Podravka Awarded Gold Plaque Ankci Tudjman

Gold Plaque awarded Ankici Tudjman for public work, selfless care and welfare of children killed, missing and deceased veterans and for the humanitarian work of the Foundation "For the Croatian Children" was awarded the President's UBIUDR Mladen Pavkovic.

At the ceremony the Golden Hall of the Croatian Institute for History in Zagreb, attended by numerous dignitaries from the public, cultural and political life to pay their respects and expressed their appreciation and support for wife of the first Croatian president Franjo Tudjman. Mladen Pavkovic said that NGOs and other Croatian soldiers immediately adopted the initiative UBIUDR a Gold Medallion award for a woman who devoted herself to work for an independent Croatian state. The activities of these foundations "for Croatian children," said Mary Boras, recalling how the Foundation works 19 years and has paid out more than 170 million to help children of Croatian soldiers, and the overall amount of assistance for the children you care for the Foundation has more od178 million kuna. Today, the monthly assistance received about 1200 children from all counties, of which three quarters of Croatian war veterans. Commendable humanitarian work Ankica Tudjman handed the Minister of Family, Veterans and Intergenerational Solidarity, Tomislav Ivic, who said the work of the Foundation "Children Croatian" society has recognized as an outstanding contribution to the care of children killed Croatian soldiers.

The investment of 13 million dollars in factory Kalnik

In Varazdin Kalniku back two years most production was done in a manner that yields only a semi, but last year received 70% of the finished product, and this latest investment in Kalniku will be getting 90% of the finished products.

Time to achieve significantly better operating results, and also more competitive in an extremely demanding market of these products. In order to achieve the technical and technological processes and improve production in Kalniku these days in most of this year completed an investment of 13 million dollars in a line of vegetables and condiments. Purchased a machine to calibrate the cucumber, which is an automated process, it is important to note that most new machines purchased from the EU and Croatian.

On line processing, point of entry of fresh peppers, built a metal detector that controls the feedstock for any stray small metal, which in turn increases safety and product quality. The following is a new multi-purpose rotary filler, which is primarily intended for filling beetroot, olives and cucumbers. Its place there has found a new interesting technology pasteurizer. This is a new machine that allows simultaneous pasteurization of two different products from two different production lines. Before packaging, finished products are passing through a metal detector and then he ended up on a new machine for packaging. The new packer provides packing in foil, the plate and the base of all products of this factory and all kinds of packaging products to 720 ml. All of these new machines to save labor and energy, greatly reducing the rastep that was quite a big problem.

Izložba predmeta od stakla rađenih airbrush tehnikom

 Ispred Podravkinog restorana prehrane u Podravki ovih se dana može razgledati zanimljiva izložba ukrasnih predmeta rađenih od staklene ambalaže.

Autorica je Andreja Bedeničec, inače zaposlenica u Podravkinoj mesnoj industriji Danica, a u slobodno vrijeme iskazuje svoju neobičnu ljubav prema staklu. Naime, od staklene ambalaže, bojama i raznim sitnim detaljima nastaju zanimljivi uporabni predmeti poput svijećnjaka, vaza, držača salveta i drugih stvari. Predmeti se rade bojama na nitro i vodenoj bazi airbrush kistovima i lijepe vrućim ljepilom. Izložba se može razgledati u sljedeća dva tjedna.

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Peek & Poke celebrated its third Birthday

RIJEKA - Peek & Poke this Saturday celebrates third birthday. Having successfully completed the three-month cultural and scientific and educational events »Rijeka 2010," you still recalls the black monolith on the Corso, the creative team from the first Croatian museum of old computers honor their loyal visitors free birthday party what can only throw a peek & pokee's. Although, unlike other museums are not under state, county or municipal auspices, successfully manage to survive with its permanent exhibition of more than 1000 exhibits of Croatian and world history, computer arranged as three hundred feet square in the center of the city of Rijeka. 3 years, 300 square meters, 1000 exhibits.Rijeka museum of old computers celebrated on Saturday, three years of existence "Piki-Poki-Pik 'third birthday cake for" Peek & Poke ".

We are not planning anything special, just a small part of the spectacle of the birthday wishes and greetings from, say from "City", which marks 25 years on stage. The celebration will enhance the performance of the legendary group of Rijeka "City", and all lovers of old computers will be able to treat and a special "Piki-Poki-Pik" cake our friend PIK Rijeka. Admission is free and guests are invited to purchase souvenirs and donations to help equip the e-classroom in which to learn and to grow new generations of digital generation. That evening all the Peek & Poke souvenirs will be available at promotional prices, revealed Davor Pasarić from the Association of Calculus and added to the birthday party invite all volunteers, computer enthusiasts and the curious, and current and future friends of the first and only Croatian Museum Informatics. Group "City" before an audience of Rijeka last time she performed in front of more than a month, in the summers at Gradina. Just like that, and playing Peek & Poke will use to remember the old songs and stuff from the new album "No". Since the beginning of this year, the Peek & Poke held for more than fifteen concerts, it was entirely logical that the celebration, the official name "Peek & Poke has not yet learned to pronounce the letter R," magnify a well-known musical name.

We are not planning anything special, just a little birthday spectacle. With people from Peek & Poke, we always worked well, there we had a promotion video for the song "Holiday", but have never held a concert at the club. Preparation of standard repertoire, but the part with the wishes and greetings. Peek & Poke is always domestic atmosphere, great team is an interesting space so I think it will be just fine, he concluded frontman "City" Dean Škaljac.

From Hlebine to the Vatican and Iceland

 In a pleasant atmosphere stand "43 minutes with ..." was hosted by our famous naive painter Mijo Kovacic, on the occasion of his 75th Anniversary of life and rich creative output. The organizers of this forum were UBIUDR Podravka Branch Nuts Croatian Koprivnica. About Mia's creative spoke Croatian President Nuts in Koprivnica, D. Ernečić and journalist and publicist Mladen Pavkovic.

Interesting content of the discussion, which followed the course of the slides on the big screen, was full of lines from longtime painter's oeuvre. Mijo Kovacic is the only living great contemporary Croatian art second generation Hlebine art school. She is an honorary member of the Croatian and Nuts Molvarskog art circle. Painting deals since 1935. , and the first exhibition was made at post offices in Koprivnica.

Furthermore, the world lined up galleries that housed his valuable exhibits. He has exhibited in major national and international galleries and museums. His paintings on the market today are reaching a very high price, as well as confirmation of the quality and achievements of renowned painter.

As a man of the people, peasant, naive, the contents of files using motifs that surround it. Numerous Mia anthology images created are just inspired by the Drava River Drava and the upper forest where she lives. Yet his greatest inspiration Drava. In his paintings can be seen a gold miner, fishermen, digging gravel and sand mills, reed, and in particular it captures everyday rural laborers and tired of the story from the people.

Podravka's representatives on the 8th International Fair 2010 ARCA

Dubravka Grošić, head of the department of contracts and contracting and Davor Janjatović, Head of Technology Development will present at this year's eighth Podravka international exhibition of innovations, new ideas, products and technologies (ARCA 2010) to be held at the National and University Library in Zagreb on 30 September to 2 October .

The fair will be held the first conference entitled "Innovation and Competitiveness," which will discuss the creation of incentive climate for Innovativeness, the creative relationship of employers and innovator companies, business and academia, innovation infrastructure and social valorisation of innovation and will be presented to international good practice. The fair is expected to represent a significant number of innovations that are the result of Croatian creative individuals and teams in business, academia and public institutes.

Dubravka will exhibit examples of experiential Podravka dd related to the enforcement of trademarks as a form of intellectual property protection under the theme of relations between employers and creative innovators in business, academia and other institutions, while Davor present examples of good practices related to business and innovation.

The organizer is the 2010 ARCA Croatian Association of Inventors (UIH) in cooperation with the National and University Library (NUL), the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (CCC), Business and Innovation Centre Croatian - BICRO, Croatian Association of Technical Culture (HZTK) and IFIA - International Federation of National Association of Inventors and Podravka is emerging as one of the sponsors.

Unusual passion off young student from Koprivnica

From an early age does not separate the two wheels and to study in Manila and back to Koprivnicu always goes bike called Marko Markovic, who was in the last four months covered more than 7000 kilometers.

For all the while I was in elementary school and high school bus I was riding just three times, and everything else I went solely by bicycle - said, adding that his primary school was located three and even mean a good five kilometers. Even today, as a student of Osijek Faculty of Food Technology knows no other means of transport. From Osijek Draganec home and back is about 400 kilometers, and the bike path at least a year to exceed the 15-odd times.

HE never tire of the bike

Put in one direction to go over 6 hours and never after that I do not feel tired - said, adding that he was cycling a look around. Whenever I have a problem, take a bike and so I just relax, feeling a special peace and freedom - explaining his passion, adding that the bike is used daily in all weather conditions. Cycling allows me to always live through something new and because I love him - says, adding that only in the last four months, traveled over 7,000 kilometers. On the road from Osijek to Koprivnice for all these years, I only happened twice that I was due to bad weather and difficult conditions had to stop for an hour or two. Briefly, I hid under the bus box and kept on going - says the unusual experience of remembering. In his memory, he says, the rest of the journey when he first saw in the night long he believed that it can be seen only during the day.