Slovenia Times

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
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Slovenia’s Value
Proposition
as a Location for FDI
Since the late 1970s, when the first foreign investors came to
Slovenia, the skill base has remained the country’s key attraction
as an inward investment location. Skilled labour is available to a
range of industries making Slovenia an easy location for investors
to fill talent. Other advantages include adaptability of companies
and of the workforce, business legislation, investment incentives,
a 17% corporate income tax rate and investment tax allowances.
Foreign investors’ perception of Slovenia as a host for FDI is
improving as gross value added per employee keeps increasing
against a backdrop of the decreasing number of employees over
the past few years. Manufacturing companies lead the way in
generating the highest gross value added, and among them large
companies account for more gross value added than all other
companies put together.
Foreign direct investment and an effective
go-to-market strategy help to increase
competitiveness and economic growth.
Slovenia’s business environment is
conducive to entrepreneurial activity, but
its potential as a gateway into the region of
45 million consumers and further on into
the EU market, with 500 million people,
is still waiting to be fully developed.
Its supportive environment with probusiness
infrastructure and a technicallysavvy
workforce should compensate for the
fact that further fiscal stimulus is not likely
given the current state of public finances
and the need to decrease the deficit and
reduce those items with lowest multipliers
on GDP. What serious foreign investors
appreciate in Slovenia are its many
qualities: a talented workforce capable of
delivering smart and sustainable solutions,
a powerful and adaptable technological and
industrial base, ability to cope with the
volatile global market and keep pace in a
rapidly changing and increasingly complex
industry. Just add the country’s welldeveloped
infrastructure for inland
transport of goods, modern port
infrastructure, reliable electricity and gas
supply and dependable internet
connections and Slovenia has all the
attributes of an FDI destination of choice.
Quality infrastructure
Ideally situated to serve Europe’s west and
east, north and south, Slovenia not only
has excellent communication and
transport infrastructure, high-quality
services and a functioning public
administration and financial system,
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