The year 2009

the global economic crisis didn’t pass by Croatia, nor did it pass by the Primorsko-Goranska county

the financial reports of 2009 paint that picture well enough

the average wages in the PGC rose by 0.2 % from 4,404 kn in the year 2008 to 4,412 in the year 2009

an entrepreneur is one or more individuals who invest capital and knowingly take risks to acquire certain capital gains

in Croatia, the basic divison of entrepreneurs are - small enterprises, medium and large

small businesses are those with total assets are up to 27 million HRK, total revenue of HRK 57 million, with 50 employees

the group of medium-sized businesses are those by those who exceed two to three criteria for small businesses

2009GDP, fluid prices, mil. € 45,379GDP per capita 10,232Net earnings, in HRK 5,311Export, mil. € 7,516,7Import, mil. € 15,218,5

RH PGC2009 2009

Number of entrepreneurs 84,473 8,008

Number of employees 860,636 61,674Total revenues in mil. HRK 590,972 33,431

Total expenditures in mil. HRK 582,511 33,998

Investments in mil. HRK 49,899 2,849

Average net earnings per employee in HRK 4,586 4,412

ActivityNumber of

entrepreneursAverage number of

employeesRH PGC RH PGC

Transportation and storage 3,023 367 60,658 6,531

The activity of providing accomodation and preparation and serving of food

4,381 565 38,917 5,715

Information and communication 3,508 248 32,488 1,149

TOTAL: 7,889 1,180 132,063 13,395

In 000 HRK In 000 HRKINDUSTRY TOTAL REVENUE TOTAL EXPENDITURE

RH PGC RH PGCTransportation and storage 26,794,207 3,050,019 26,353,443 3,059,056

Industry of providing accomodation and preparing and serving food

12,039,505 1,722,239 12,935,489 1,899,047

Information and communication 29,388,087 435,751 26,287,656 424.970

TOTAL: 68,221,799 5,208,009 65,576,588 5,383,073

In HRK In 000 HRK

INDUSTRYAVERAGE NET

EARNINGS INVESTMENTS

2009 2009Transportation and storage 5,352 196,072

Industry of providing accomodation and preparing and serving food

4,411 329,837

Information and communication 5,668 28,248

TOTAL: 15,431 554,157

DESCRIPTION 2009Number of entrepreneurs 565Average number of employees 5,715Average net earnings by employee in HRK 4,411

small medium TOTAL246 2 248

small medium TOTAL272,058,072 151,712,119 423,770,191

small medium TOTAL355 7 362

small medium TOTAL1.143,834,965 966,181,617 2.110,016,582

small mediumNumber of entrepreneurs 2009 7,885 93

Number of employees (hrs of labour)

2009 33,152 10,859

Total assets(in mil HRK) 2009 15,033 6,710

Investments(in mil HRK) 2009 1,200 511

DESCRIPTION 2009Number of entrepreneurs 367Average number of employees 6,531Total revenue in 000 HRK 3,050,019Total expenditure in 000 HRK 3,059,056Average net earnings by employee in HRK 5,352

SMALL MEDIUMNumber of entrepreneurs

2009 7,885 93

Number of employees

2009 33,152 10,859

Total revenue 2009 15,033 6,710Total expenditure 2009 14,772 6,655Investments 2009 1,200 511

accomodation 5.18%

construction 9.94%

transportation and storage 9.12%

manufacturing 18.78%

trade 42.49%

the business data of the year 2009 shows that in the PGC there are six main industries that make between 77.85 % and 89.09 % shares in all indicator

from the previously shown chart we can see that trade dominates, considering that it’s ranked one in five out of six indicators