Međimurje County

undefinedCapital: City of Čakovec

Area: 729.58 km2

Population: 118,426 inhabitants

Demographic profile:
Average age: 37.6 godina
Gender: 51% women; 49% men

Educational qualifications structure: mainly secondary school level

Economy

GDP: 894 million of EUR (2007)

Export and import data: export: 382,844,565 USD; import: 345,859,150 USD (2009)

Key export products: machinery and components, clothing, mattresses and bed parts, plastic masses

National Competitiveness Council ranked Međimurje as the most competitive county in Croatia, second only to the City of Zagreb

Key sectors:

  • Processing industry (metal, textile, wood, footwear and construction material industry)
  • Construction
  • Trade

Trends in the economy:

  • Development of tourism
  • Penetration of foreign capital

Investments in the economy in the last few years:

  • Sveti Martin - SPA & Golf resort Sveti Martin (2004-2012) – construction of spa, new hotel and golf course; the value of investment reached approx. 320 million HRK. The construction of a new hotel is planned (180 million HRK) – the total value of investment: 500 million HRK;
  • LPT  Ltd. (2008) – construction of a new factory in Prelog; an investment worth 70 million HRK;
  • Haix Ltd. (2008-2010) – construction and equipping the new production facilities in Mala Subotica; investment worth 60 million HRK;
  • Centrometal Ltd. (2009-2011) – further construction of the production premises and the introduction of new production technology; the value of the investment is 45 million HRK;
  • Ferro-preis Ltd. (2008-2010) – construction and equipment of the new plant due to the expansion of the production line; value of the investment: approx.15 million HRK
  • Sobočan interijeri Ltd. (2009-2011) – expansion of the production premises, construction of a new production premise and purchasing equipment; value of the investment: approx. 14 million HRK
  • Te-pro Ltd. (2008-2009) – construction of two new production facilities and introduction of new production technology for machine processing

Manufacturing Sector

Key sectors: processing sector (metal and textile), food industry

Employment: 51.5% of the total number of employees in the County (2009)

Overview of the most important companies: 

  • Metal industry – Centrometal ltd. Čakovec, Tehnix ltd. Donji Kraljevec, LPT ltd. Prelog, Novi Feromont ltd. Donji Kraljevec. TMT ltd. Čakovec
  • Heplast-pipe ltd. Prelog
  • Textile industry – Tubla tekstil ltd. Čakovec, Čateks Jsc. Čakovec
  • Production of mattresses – Hespo ltd. Prelog, Bernarda ltd. Pušćine
  • Food industry – Vajda Jsc. Čakovec, Čakovečki mlinovi Jsc. Čakovec, Tvornica stočne hrane Jsc. Čakovec, Perutnina Ptuj-Pipo ltd. Čakovec

Services Sector

Key sectors: construction and trade

Employment: construction: 16.5 % of the total number of employed persons in the county; trade: 12.7% of the total number of employed persons in the county (2009)

Overview of the most important companies: 

  • Construction: Međimurje graditeljstvo ltd. Čakovec, Team Jsc. Čakovec, Tegra ltd. Čakovec, Đurkin ltd. Čakovec
  • Trade: Eurounit ltd. Čakovec, METSS ltd. Čakovec

The FDI Magazine Financial Times in its “European Cities and Regions of the Future” competition assessed Međimurje County’s FDI promotion strategy and ranked it 3rd in the category of small European region; 4th in the category of southern regions and 13th overall in Europe

New Economy

Pregled tvrtki: Međimurje IPC, MEDIA  Soft, MIT Cluster (gathering 11 companies from the IT sector)

Business infrastructure

Technological centres/parks: TIC Međimurje – Business Innovation Centre Croatia (a business incubator at the same time)

Business zones: there are all together58 zones, out of which 39 are operational (13 zones are occupied and 26 are ready for investments)

Business incubator: TIC Međimurje

Traffic Infrastructure

City of Čakovec represents an important traffic junction of directions towards Hungary and Slovenia; the county is fully crossed by road and railway lines; the total length of local, regional and state roads is 619 km.

Educational Institutions

  • Faculties and polytechnics: Teachers’ Academy Čakovec, Međimurje Polytechnics Čakovec
  • High schools located in Čakovec include: high school for economics and trade, construction, technical and vocational education school
  • 6 foreign languages schools
  • Čakovec Animated Film School

Further information on the County

Međimurje County
Regional Development Agency REDEA
Development Agency of the city of Čakovec ČAKRA
Međimurje County - business zones