Company Profiles Kosovo Slovenia Business and Arbitration Forum April 4, 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia By sector: Construction Consulting Education Production Tourism and Hospitality Transportation Construction Global Construction The construction company, Global Construction, founded by a manager with many years of experience in the field of business management, a decade ago, respectively in 2000, has started with the construction of three residential buildings in Albania, with a construction of 21,000 m 2. While in Kosovo they have built three buildings about 16,000 m 2, and planned two others in about 10,000 m 2. Global Construction L.L.C. is licensed as enterprise specialized in the construction field and its accompanying activities. The company builds on the outskirts of the town avoiding the center of the city with its flaws, traffic overload, over population, and its filthiness. ARTA-VM Founded in 2008, ARTV VM is an export-import company specialized in international trading for construction machinery and equipment. Arta VM s vision is expanding capacities on: Capital Investments Construction Brand Distribution International Trading Construction Machinery: Trucks, Trailors. Construction Material: Trading, Marble, Granit. 1/5
Consulting Services Financial Baker Tilly Kosovo Baker Tilly Kosovo, formerly known as BU and Partners, is an accounting and business consulting firm in Kosovo providing audit, taxation and other business advisory services. Baker Tilly Kosovo team consist of experienced professionals, including tax experts, licensed and senior auditors, and a team of supporting professionals with business administration, accounting and finance degrees. Baker Tilly Kosovo is an independent member of the Baker Tilly International, which is the world s 8 th largest accountancy and business advisory network providing premier advisory services worldwide, drawing on internationally recognized industry and service line experts in 125 countries. Legal Boga & Associates Established in 1994, Boga & Associates has emerged as one of the premier law firms in Albania, earning a reputation for providing the highest quality of legal, tax and accounting services to its clients. They also operate in Kosovo (Pristina), offering a full range of services. Clients benefit from: Expertise in handling high-profile and sensitive matters; In-depth and wide-reaching sector focus and expertise; Years of advisory experience; and Practical and commercial knowledge. Boga & Associates is recognized as a top tier firm by the most prestigious ranking companies in Corporate/Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Real Estate by Chambers and Partner (2012), Financial and Corporate Law as well as Mergers and Acquisition by IFLR (2012). Kalo & Associates Established in 1994, Kalo & Associates is recognized as a leading law firm in both Albania and Kosovo. It is a full service law firm providing a broad range of legal services in all core areas of commercial and corporate law for domestic, foreign, and multinational companies. The Pristina office was opened in May 2008 representing an official consolidation of the firm s already long history of the provision of legal services to businesses in the Kosovar market. 2/5
In the establishment of the office in Kosovo, Kalo & Associates brought on board two successful and reputable Kosovar lawyers, Ahmet Hasolli and Gazmend Nushi to lead the office. Both partners of this office are extremely well-established lawyers in Pristina with a wealth of local experience and expertise to offer foreign investors in the field of commercial and business law. This partnership represents a strong local identity, strategic vision and consistency in the provision of quality legal services. Kalo & Associates in Pristina is in an excellent position with an impressive capacity to manage representation of foreign investors in an efficient, responsive and conscientious manner in Kosovo. Education Universum College Universum University College is a higher education institution in Kosovo aspiring to be the first research-intensive institution in the region. It offers studies in Business, Economics, Social Studies and Education. It is one of the few unconditionally accredited higher education institutions in Kosova from the Kosovar Agency for Accreditation, with the evaluation conducted by international experts. Its strategic planning, curriculum and quality assurance system were highly evaluated by international experts. It is renowned for its academic background, research facilities, and international opportunities offered to its students and academic English Centre English Centre- School of foreign languages in Prishtina was established and registered by the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Kosovo on date September 11 th, 2006 by Tomor Hoxha. Starting with one location in the city center of Prishtina close to Mother Teresa, on Tring Smajli street, 1 st entrance and followed by a second location since 2010 on Kodra e Trimave neighbourhood, on Mic Sokoli street, number 1, English Centre School provides training courses of foreign languages, such as: English language, German language, French language, Italian language and Albanian language. The English Centre School is known as a centre for providing intensive courses of foreign languages, while location number 2 of English Centre is known for providing regular courses only for children therefore it is called the centre for English language and 3/5
mathematics. English Centre implements many projects offering English language courses, training a large number of people from governmental and non-governmental institutions of Kosovo. The English Centre, apart from the division of foreign language courses, has the division of translation, offering translation services in many foreign languages but mainly focused on three official languages of the country. Production Compact Group The inception of Compact Group is closely linked with the overall drive of Kosovo society to strengthen and develop the private economy. Founded in 1990 by brothers Shala, Compact Groupp is committed to continually upgrade and expand the production program and services comprised of a diversified range of activities while maintaining a strong capital position. Following several years of research on the water production business, DEA started production in 2004. In the first two years, the company has successful penetration in the market and a rapid growth of market shares. This was due to the good quality of its products as well as properly targeted promotion. During this period we expanded the product lines and keen on continuing the expansion. DEA natural mineral water is also continuously checked for quality at the official laboratories of DEA plant. DEA is certified with ISO 22000:2005 and HACCP. The lab is certified with ISO 17025. Since 2006, these measures enable Dea water to offer its consumers a quality product with international standards. DEA Water is consumed by the NATO troops in Kosovo, all embassies and U.S. Army in Kosovo and abroad. DEA plan to expand into new markets, such as European countries. Holland Tech Operating since 1998, Holltech is a rapidly growing company specialized in producing door openers, door components and full set of sectional doors and rolling doors. They have installed their products in different countries, like: Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. With more than 10 years of experience and their enthusiastic no-nonsense work team, they aim to be a long term, reliable supplier with solid product quality and right price! 4/5
Tourism and Hospitality Che Bar Che bar, founded in 2008, is an independent business engaged in tourism and hospitality industry. The main business activity of Che Bar is offering daily food and drinks. Hyseni Group Founded in 2002, Hyseni group is a business engaged in tourism and hospitality services. It a company offering services in the army bases, also known as Film City in Kosovo. It offers food, drinks, and organizes events. Transportation Railtrans Railtrans L.L.C. was established by Mr. Besir Çmega, a person of highly motivated professional in the freight forwarding and logistics business, offering a wide range of international transportation and logistics solutions. With a combined wealth of experience from works at Kosovo Railways J.S.C., was able to take the right steps and make the right investments and today, Railtrans L.L.C. is reputed in the Kosovo market to be the leader of freight and logistics service provider by railway- and combined transports. Railtrans L.L.C. mission is to be the leading company in the market where we act, with our long experience, wide range of reliable partners and our excellent knowledge of special solutions for railway- and combined transports. Railtrans additionally has a subsection of transportation with trucks, also known as Trucktrans. 5/5