partners

Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG operates one of the leading financial networks in Central and Eastern Europe with banks, leasing and asset management companies in 17 markets. Raiffeisen International serves 15 million customers via more than 3,100 business outlets. Raiffeisen is also a leading bank in Croatia, providing financial solutions to nearly 600,000 corporate and private customers.

Raiffeisen International is a fully-consolidated subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (RZB), which owns about 70 per cent of the common stock. With a balance-sheet total of €151.3 billion (as of 30 September 2009), RZB is one of Austria's leading commercial and investment banks.

The RZB Group is a strong and reliable partner for financial institutions and sovereign entities worldwide. The RZB Group highlights the importance of its cooperation with the EBRD by serving as flagship sponsor of the EBRD Annual Meeting.

UniCredit Group is one of the largest European banking groups, with a core presence in 22 countries and approximately 10,000 branches. In Central and Eastern Europe the Group has a comprehensive banking network with about 4,000 offices in 19 countries. In Croatia, where it operates through Zagrebačka banka, it is the leading bank of the country. As a universal bank UniCredit Group can rely on its diversified banking model and benefits from its country diversification. The comprehensive network of the Group offers various advantages to its customers like the knowledge of the products, cross border services and the access to all international financial centers.

Agrokor is the largest company in the Adria region and one of the largest companies in CEE with revenues of nearly EUR 4 billion in 2009. Principal company's activities are: Food Retail and Food Manufacturing in which Agrokor holds dominant leadership positions supported by a diverse portfolio of well known brands, state of the art facilities and processes, well developed distribution and highly experienced management team. In food retail Agrokor operates through a multi format retail network from convenience to hyper markets while in food manufacturing owns a collection of strong brands in ice-cream, water and beverages, edible oils and meat products.

Erste Group was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank and went public in 1997 with a strategy to expand its retail and SME business into Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Since then the customer base has grown from 600,000 to 17.5 million. 95% of those clients live in the European Union which gives the countries a stable regulatory framework supporting their economic development. Today Erste Group is one of the largest financial services providers in CEE in terms of clients and total assets.

Privredna Banka Zagreb (PBZ) was founded in 1966. PBZ is the second largest banking group in Croatia, with a base of more than 1.7 million clients and most extensive branch network with over 220 branches. Today PBZ is a member of one of the biggest European banking groups - Intesa Sanpaolo which owns 76.6% of its share capital.