• Corona, Freedom and Business, the Crisis and Beyond. • Slovakia During Covid-19 • Kamila Pudišová Interview
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1|2020 The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic Focus on: • Corona, freedom and business, the crisis and beyond. • Slovakia during Covid-19 • Kamila Pudišová interview Themes: Events: • Speed Business Meeting • Annual General Meeting • Tax seminar advertisement Bulletin Bulletin Contents Jan-Lamber Voortman Contents President Editorial DAVINCI software s.r.o. The President speaks ......................................................... 4 List of members .................................................................. 5 Richard Kellner Vice-President Welcome Komerční banka, a. s., New member ....................................................................... 6 Focus on Ambassador speaks Bart Waterloos ........................................................... 10 Treasurer Interview: Kamila Pudišová............................................... 12 VGD SLOVAKIA s.r.o. HEINEKEN supports HORECA, arts, and doctors ........... 14 Interview: Sascha Carrez & Indalofarma ........................ 16 Elena Májeková Board Member Leadership in Slovak Young Business Community ........ 20 Union poisťovňa a.s. VGD: Slovakia during Covid-19 ......................................... 22 5 business lessons ............................................................ 26 Zuzana Bartošovičová Why should we be inspired by Dutch culture? ............... 28 Board Member Hillbridges s.r.o. Legal Update ...................................................................... 30 Circular Slovakia ............................................................... 34 Kamila Pudišová Board Member Events 1to1 Administration s.r.o. Speed Business Meeting .................................................. 36 Annual General Meeting & New Year’s Reception ........ 38 Beatrix Šidová Tax seminar ....................................................................... 42 WHEN Board Member ING Bank In short Members Ab Olde-Scheper YOU DRIVE Board Member Dolphin Slovakia s.r.o Bulletin info Paul van Dongen Bulletin is a magazine published quarterly by the NEVER Board Member Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic Editors: Adriana Kukučková , Ab Olde-Scheper Board Erik Heidema Editorial, Advertising & Subscription Contact: Board Member [email protected] DRINK Pro4CE s.r.o. Graphic design: Nadezda Gladyshkova Front cover: “Empty Eurovea in time of COVID-19 crisis” Julian Dietz The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic Board Member Moskovská 13, 81108 Bratislava TMF Services Slovakia s.r.o. www.netherlandschamber.sk 2 NICO ROSBERG / 2016 FIA FORMULA 1® DRIVERS’ WORLD CHAMPION 3 HNK_WYDND_A4_210x297_0519.indd 1 15.5.19 11:30 Bulletin Bulletin Editorial Editorial President speaks List of members Patron Members: Corporate Members: 1to1 Administration s.r.o. Hillbridges s.r.o. Signify Slovakia s.r.o. Advokátska kancelária Mgr. Štefan iCultura s.r.o. SOCIA - Nadácia na podporu sociálnych Rybovič, s.r.o. zmien Jan Lamber Voortman Indalo Farma AS Trenčín a.s. Start Group s.r.o. President of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce ING Business Shared Services B.V. AspenStaff s.r.o. Tec@work JUDr. Milan Žoldoš, advokát, s.r.o. Dear Patron-members, Members and Friends, Belgicatessen Techo s.r.o. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines BUSINESS LEASE SLOVAKIA s.r.o. TNT Express Worldwide s.r.o. From the Board of the Chamber we wish and hope you are all doing fine in these rare times. We are working behind the scenes to Komerční banka a.s., pobočka zahraničnej help out as much as can the different members. If we can help you with contacts, knowledge or other forms of support let us know. cargo-partner SR s.r.o. banky UPSTUDIO We are preparing more digital webinars, round tables on the request of our members. Together with the embassy we are having a Cesam s.r.o. Koppert s.r.o. VGD SLOVAKIA s.r.o. close eye what is happening in Slovakia, but also from NL perspective. We understand that some of you have more difficulties than Crayonic Larive Slovakia s.r.o. Wall it, s.r.o. others, reach out if you think we could help. We have to show our solidarity as members to get through this together. We are looking forward to meeting you again once possible.The main topic of this bulletin is Leadership in Slovakia, we are proud that so many Crowdberry a.s. LeasePlan Slovakia s.r.o. WorkSpace Europe companies shared interesting articles in this bulletin. Like in these current times, leadership is very important to guide companies Crowne Plaza Bratislava Lugera & Maklér s.r.o. through the current crisis. We have received and collected inspiring stories of Business Lease, whereby Lucia Ciskova is telling her story. Also young leaders, via the Slovak Young Business Community, Katarina Rusnakova (online TORO), wrote an interesting piece. DOZEN s.r.o. MB PICTURES My dear friend (and colleague) Peter Steiner told in his story, how the Dutch-influenced his way of leading ;). Euro Planit s.r.o. NEWAYS SLOVAKIA a.s. Furthermore we share two interviews with our relatively new members: 1to1 administration and Indalo Farma. Indalo Farma Ewals Cargo Care s.r.o. Pontrain organized a nice Wine & Belgium beer gift in NL, BE, and Slovakia for Davinci’s PubQuiz event. This was nice cooperation to help GEMOR Fashion s.r.o. pro4CE s.r.o. each other in this Corona-times. HC Capital a.s. Scaleup Marketing Like I said our members are taking care of each other, especially I would like to mention VGD, Hillbridges who delivered useful HIC Slovakia s.r.o. Sheraton Bratislava Hotel articles, and also earlier we sent updates via email. There were also already webinars with useful COVID-19 updates given. Our work on Circular economy never stops, you can find interesting article on how Circular Slovakia and Holland Circular Hotspot joined forces. Honorary members: We are happy that we could donate a small sum to charity“please ADD the cause”. It’s always a good gesture to help out the ones in Anton van Beek Netherlands Royal Embassy in Bratislava Rob Swartbol need. Emile Roest Paul Verlinden Let’s stay strong together and help each other in these times! Miroslava Tvarog Michalková Richard van Rijssen We will appreciate any ideas you would like to share with us which will help to improve the Chamber. Please, contact Adriana and we can schedule an appointment and discuss. For any business-related matters, I am available at [email protected]. Individual member: Enjoy reading the new Bulletin and I hope to speak to you soon at the Chamber events, Paul Frankenhuizen Robert Machalíček Daniela Kmeťová Frank Reijnen Jan-Lamber Want to become a member? Check the membership options on www.netherlandschamber.sk 4 5 Bulletin Bulletin Welcome Welcome Welcome new members! Crayonic Indalo Farma Crayonic is a Dutch-American Fhinix Vibrations sro was established in technological startup with Slovak roots. 2012 by chef Carrez Sascha, In 2015 was The company was founded in 2017 by the company divided into two branches senior experts on security, cryptography, Indalo Farma and freelance cooking biometrics, and identity / access services. In middle of the Hont region management solutions. Crayonic applies you will find Sudince where Indalo Farma privacy, security, usability by design with is based , we are specialized in making a strong customer-centric approach. Crayonic B.V. wild herbal tea / fruit vinegars and bee Fhinix Vibrations sro Crayonic’s flagship solution - the KeyVault products in a traditional way to make - enables users to completely eliminate Kennedyplein 200, this high-quality natural products. Indalo Lišov 85 962, 71 Lišov Slovakia Peter Kolarov passwords and empower organizations to 5611 ZT Eindhoven, The Netherlands Carrez Sascha Farma also serves as a platform for Farma: Sudince 45 96271 Sudince Founder, CEO better secure their user accounts against Founder Belgian and Slovak craft companies with phishing and other forms of attacks. [email protected] the same philosophy as ours to promote [email protected] Chamber members are offered with a www.crayonic.com their products on the Slovak and Belgian www.indalofarma.sk PATRON MEMBER PATRON MEMBER free consultation on ‘How the company market. The combined knowledge of Chef can get rid of passwords and at the same Sascha Carrez and his team from Indalo time increase its protection against the CORPORATE MEMBER Farma ensure that we can assist chefs CORPORATE MEMBER most common form of cyber attacks – & bartenders with customized advice on phishing’. INDIVIDUAL MEMBER how to use our products to the maximum INDIVIDUAL MEMBER in their line of work Paul Frankenhuizen Graban, Torma & Paul +31 6 23 88 27 87 partners Frankenhuizen [email protected] PATRON MEMBER Our law firm was established in 2002 and Since 2016 I live part-time in Trnava and we have been known to the public under part-time in Leusden (The Netherlands). CORPORATE MEMBER our current name since 2009. My family brought me to Slovakia and We have been successful due to trust, my business is in The Netherlands, INDIVIDUAL MEMBER expertise, decisiveness and flexibility - UK and Australia. My business is values we firmly believe in. GRABAN, TORMA & PARTNERS s.r.o. about online Community Engagement Staying true to our moral integrity is with construction companies and immensely important to us in all our Kováčska 53 municipalities as clients. I love to be JUDr. Adrián Graban, JUDr. Imrich Torma Paul Frankenhuizen activities. We use our expertise and 040 01 Košice in Slovakia. And it is my wish to let my Managing partners experience to the benefit of our clients. company grown