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Planning to invest in Slovenia? Did you hear about all the great opportunities Slovenia has but don’t know who to turn to? Here are some great advices if you are planning to invest.

Slovenia was fortunate to have relatively painless divorce from the former country, Yugoslavia. Transition from mostly socialist economy to modern capitalist free market happened shortly after independence in 1991. Slovenia is the first country of the former Yugoslavia to join NATO and EU in 2004. It is also the first communist state to adopt Euro, in 2007.

One great agency that helps foreign investors in Slovenia is JAPTI. JAPTI operates on a mandate to attract andretain foreign direct investment. It also helps foster enterpreneurial spirit and innovation and help Slovenian companies venturing on international markets. You can find more information about JAPTI here.  

Best thing about JAPSTI is that they provide support for investors free of charge. They can give support in the following fields:

• Information on legislation, taxes and incentive
• Information on industrial sites and local suppliers
• Links with industry and local authorities
• Organisation of fact-finding missions, business and investment conferences and trade shows

JAPTI also has a growing network of economic representative offices outside of the country – this is called the FDI Division and it is a gateway for investors requiring access to updated FDI data and intelligence on companies, industries and markets.

You can contact JAPTI through email fdi@japti.si or call them at +386 1 5891 870

Here are also the links to the pages of representative offices abroad:

• Milan (Italy)
• Düsseldorf (Germany)
• Shanghai (China)
• Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• Kazan (Russia)

A great article providing more in-dept analisys of Slovenian economic market can be found trough Qfinance or here.

There are also numerous banks where you can get an advice on the topics and we will talk more about them in one of the following articles!

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