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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Modi's Visit Sparks Indian Bids For Croatia's Infrastructure
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Zagreb last month is prompting growing interest from Indian companies in major infrastructure projects in Croatia. Over the past week, Afcons Infrastructure Ltd submitted three bids for state railway and road-building projects in the euro area's newest member, worth 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in total. Another Indian company, a conglomerate led by Ashoka Buildcon Ltd, is also vying for the same railway reconstruction contract as Afcons.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Boccia European gold win 'huge' for Kidson
New European boccia champion Sally Kidson says she will take "huge" momentum from winning her first major championship into the rest of this season. The 20-year-old beat defending champion, Sonia Heckel of France, 3-2 in the individual BC3 final in Zagreb, Croatia, earlier this month to win the gold medal. "I'm very happy," Kidson told BBC Radio Wiltshire. "It never hurts to win a big tournament like this and especially a major, but it's not all about that, it's about the momentum going into the rest of the year and ahead of the World Championships next year this sort of thing is huge." Sally Kidson: GB's youngest Boccia athlete Kidson, from Salisbury, made her Paralympic debut last summer for Great Britain in Paris where she was the youngest person on the team. She was introduced to the sport in primary school and made her international competition in 2022, aged 17. "The last Europeans [championships] I did in 2023, I literally came dead last and so to go from dead last to first place is absolutely mental," Kidson said. Honouring former Paralympians Kidson said the gold medal win was even more poignant following the deaths of her pairs partner Will Arnott and Great Britain team-mate Matt Berry at the end of 2024. Kidson and Arnott's gold medal in the Paralympic Games qualifying event secured Great Britain a place in the BC3 category at last summer's event. "It's nothing short of a tragedy to lose both Will and Matt at the tail end of last year," Kidson said. Kidson worked with Arnott's long-time assistant Connor Welfare in Zagreb which she said made the event more special. "This one especially, we know it was a big one because me and Connor Welfare, who was [Arnott's] assistant for 11 years, we thought it would be good to do this together and do it for the big guy," Kidson said. "To be able to get a gold medal and also Zagreb is where Will had his first international competition and his first gold medal [in 2019]. "It was really special to be able to do it."
BBC News
3 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Boccia European gold win 'huge' for Kidson
New European boccia champion Sally Kidson says she will take "huge" momentum from winning her first major championship into the rest of this 20-year-old beat defending champion, Sonia Heckel of France, 3-2 in the individual BC3 final in Zagreb, Croatia, earlier this month to win the gold medal."I'm very happy," Kidson told BBC Radio Wiltshire."It never hurts to win a big tournament like this and especially a major, but it's not all about that, it's about the momentum going into the rest of the year and ahead of the World Championships next year this sort of thing is huge." Kidson, from Salisbury, made her Paralympic debut last summer for Great Britain in Paris where she was the youngest person on the team. She was introduced to the sport in primary school and made her international competition in 2022, aged 17."The last Europeans [championships] I did in 2023, I literally came dead last and so to go from dead last to first place is absolutely mental," Kidson said. Honouring former Paralympians Kidson said the gold medal win was even more poignant following the deaths of her pairs partner Will Arnott and Great Britain team-mate Matt Berry at the end of and Arnott's gold medal in the Paralympic Games qualifying event secured Great Britain a place in the BC3 category at last summer's event."It's nothing short of a tragedy to lose both Will and Matt at the tail end of last year," Kidson worked with Arnott's long-time assistant Connor Welfare in Zagreb which she said made the event more special."This one especially, we know it was a big one because me and Connor Welfare, who was [Arnott's] assistant for 11 years, we thought it would be good to do this together and do it for the big guy," Kidson said."To be able to get a gold medal and also Zagreb is where Will had his first international competition and his first gold medal [in 2019]."It was really special to be able to do it."
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Atlantic Grupa sells sandwich unit Montana Plus
Atlantic Grupa, the Croatia-based food and drinks manufacturer, has agreed to sell its Montana Plus sandwich operations to local businessman Marko Gross. Financial terms were not disclosed. In a statement, the Zagreb Stock Exchange-listed company said the sale is in line with its strategy to focus on the 'development of key product categories and the disinvestment of non-core' businesses. "As part of this process, that has been ongoing since 2018, sports and baby food, nutritional supplements and cosmetics business[es] have been disinvested," Atlantic Grupa added. In 2020, the company sold its Bebi baby-food brand to Nelt Grupa in Serbia. And in 2019, Atlantic Grupa let go of the sports nutrition and functional food arm, including the Multipower, Champ and Multaben brands. They were sold to Germany's Genuport. The sandwich deal struck with Mr Gross includes the Montana brand, assets and all the employees. Montana Plus produces and distributes so-called triangle sandwiches and extended-shelf-life sandwiches. According to its website, the sandwich maker employs 32 people, and its products are available at around 1,000 retail outlets in Croatia. Atlantic Grupa, which has owned Montana Plus since 1998, said that post deal the company has entered an agreement with Mr Gross for the sale and distribution of sandwiches. Atlantic Grupa said his 'extensive experience in the marketing, sales and production segment serves as an excellent basis for further strategic development and stronger expansion of the Montana brand portfolio, improvement of the position in the on-the-go category, and thus the development of the entire category'. Headquartered in Zagreb, Atlantic Grupa's portfolio also includes snack brands such as Smoki, Najlepše Zelje, and Bananica, along with the savoury spread brand Argeta. In drinks, it includes the Grand Kafa and Barcaffe coffee brands, as well as Cockta and Cedevita in soft beverages. The group also owns the natural mineral water line Donat. Apart from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia, Atlantic Grupa distributes its products in Austria, North Macedonia and Russia. In the first quarter of 2025, the company achieved sales of €259.9m ($301.8m), marking a 9.8% increase from the same timeframe in the previous year. However, EBITDA fell 8.7% to €23m, while EBIT dropped 29% to €10.3m. Similarly, net profit decreased by 38.4% to €6.1m. In the food segment, sales of savoury spreads rose by 19.5% to €42.7m, while snacks saw an increase of 2.1% to €31m. For the 2024 financial year, Atlantic Grupa reported sales of €1.08bn (+10.9%), EBITDA of €97m (+12%) and EBIT of €45.8m (+2.5%). Net profit, however, dropped 15.2% to €26.5m. "Atlantic Grupa sells sandwich unit Montana Plus" was originally created and published by Just Food, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
The Guardian
11-07-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Chess: Carlsen fights off Gukesh in Zagreb as ChessFest returns to Trafalgar Square
It looked as if the Carlsen era might finally be over. The Norwegian, 35, had just lost his second game in a row to India's world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, 19, who was on a streak of five successive wins and leading the Zagreb event three points ahead of Carlsen. The game was like their first in Stavanger, where Carlsen had spoiled a winning position and images of his frustrated table thump went round the world. 'Now we can question Carlsen's domination,' said Garry Kasparov. Except this time the sequel was different. The format changed from rapid to blitz and Carlsen launched his own eight-game unbeaten streak including a win against the Indian teenager using 'old man's chess' with no tactics, while Gukesh tailspun into a catastrophic run of 1.5/9. An alternative description would be that Carlsen reverted to the style of Grind Like a Grandmaster, co-authored with England's David Howell. At the end of the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz, part of the Grand Chess Tour sponsored from St Louis by the billionaire Rex Sinquefield, Carlsen banked another $40,000 winner's cheque, his fourth in six starts in Croatia. He scored 22.5/36, Wesley So (US) 20, Gukesh 19.5. There was a third Gukesh v Carlsen game, but that proved a damp squib as the pair opted for a well-known drawing line in the Ruy Lopez Berlin. Overall, it remains a successful 2025 for Carlsen, who achieved his sixth successive tournament victory of the year following the Chessable Masters, the Paris Freestyle Grand Slam, the Grenke Freestyle Open, the Classic and Stavanger. 'When nobody else has a great performance, my B-game is usually enough' said Carlsen. 'It was a fairly even tournament overall, and nobody could break away from the pack. It doesn't feel like I've won really. It feels like I just came, played alright, and nobody else did anything special.' Meanwhile, the modest Gukesh continues to meditate at the start of every game and to emphasise that he is still working continuously in self-improvement. Carlsen has other issues. Next week at Wynn Las Vegas is the third of five tournaments in the $3.5m Freestyle Grand Slam, the series based on random starting positions for every game. In a qualifier for the final place, Carlsen's arch-rival, Hans Niemann, unexpectedly won through. The next leg of the Grand Slam was planned for Delhi, but it has been cancelled due to a lack of local sponsors. In a simultaneous announcement, Jan Henric Buettner, the German entrepreneur who has been the public face of Freestyle, resigned as its chief executive and will be replaced by Thomas Harsch. This may raise questions about whether Freestyle's campaign to gain wider acceptance in the chess community is faltering. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion More details have been released of Sunday's free 11am-7pm ChessFest in Trafalgar Square, for which the weather forecast is hot and sunny. You and your children can play blitz or simultaneous games against England's leading grandmasters, there will be living chess with human pieces, a transatlantic prodigy match, puzzle contests, free tuition for chess novices, and much more. Fuller details are also available for other ChessFests in Portishead on Saturday, Hull on Sunday, and Liverpool on 20 July. English international tournament victories these days are rare, so it is something to celebrate like London buses when two come along at once. The 2022 British Champion, Harry Grieve, won the Vitoria-Gasteiz Open in Spain, scoring an unbeaten 7.5/9 to edge two others on tie-break and winning a much admired bishop endgame. Meanwhile, at the South Wales International in Bridgend, the Kent IM Aaravamudhan Balaji, 21, outpaced several other GMs and IMs to win first prize with an unbeaten 8/9. The Fide Women's World Cup is under way in Batumi, Georgia, It qualifies three players for the 2026 Women's Candidates, so has a strong entry. There have already been some shocks. Aleksandra Goryachkina, one of the favourites, lost her first game while the USA's Irina Krush hung her queen in an all-US clash with Carissa Yip. Unfortunately, there are no British entrants. The event can be followed daily on lichess. 3980 1 Bxd6! If 1…Qxd6 2 Re8+ Kh7 3 Qb1+ and 4 Qxa2 wins a rook. If 1…Re2 2 Bf4! Qxf4 3 Re8+ and 4 Qxf4 wins the queen. The game ended 1 Bd2?? Qh3! 2 Ra3?? Ne4! and White resigned due to 3 fxe4 Rxa3 while otherwise Black mates by Qg3+ Kh1 Nf2 mate or by Qg3+ Kf1 Qf2 mate.
