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![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$arz.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 20 January 2005
Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d. (<www.arz.hr>)
- The company is privately owned concessionaire holding
concession over the highway connecting the main Croatian port of
Rijeka and the capital, Zagreb. This is probably the most
frequent highway, since it partially also covers the main
country's road towards south (Zadar, Split, Dubrovnik...).
The flag is yellow, vertically hoisted with the company logo in
the middle and the name printed black beneath. The logo consists
of stylized highway roads with a tunel and a turnpike in green
and blue lined white. (There is indeed large number of tunels on
that road.) The flag is as a rule hoisted on each toll
booth stations along the highway, often quite nicely standing out
from the green scenary through which the road is passing by.
Željko Heimer, 20 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$hbor.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 20 February 2005
Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development: (Hrvatska
banka za obnovu i razvitak, HBOR). HBOR was established by
law in 1992 as "Hrvatska kreditna banka za obnovu"
(Croatian Credit Bank for Reconstruction; new name since 1995)
fully owned of the state, to help with the reconstruction of the
war destroyed regions and for the development of economy
especially in those regions that are underdeveloped. The
flag of HBOR is white with a gray pentagram field (similar to
much enlarged red square) containing initials of the Bank and a
red square rotated 45 degrees and in the base full name of the
Bank.
Željko Heimer, 20 February 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$hep.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 7 May 2005
Hrvatska elektroprivreda d.d. (<www.hep.hr>) - HEP is a state
owned company running the power plants and electric transfer
systems. In early 1990's the company run a contents for a new
logo won by a young female student of architecture with a rather
well designed graphical identity including not only the flag but
a also flag that is not just a logo on bedsheet...
The logo of the company consists of a square divided with a
symbols white thunderbolt into red and blue parts. The flag is
howered conistsing of this logo withing a white border, but with
the blue part enlarged so that it fill out the rest of the flag.
In that blue part in the lower fly is the company
"cypher", white outlined italic letters HEP. I can't
seem to find any good image of that cypher, so the angle is
"impresionistic" and possibly the letters are somewhat
differently shaped, but the overall design is as I draw it. The
flag is relatively often seen in Croatia. It is as a rule hoisted
on the power plants and on the company administrative buildings
that exists probably in each county capital, at least.
Personally, I believe I have seen the flag at least in Zagreb,
Opatija, Korenica, Gosipc, Varazdin and over several power plants
(all the places where I passed by in a car, mostly).
Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$posta.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
Hrvatska pošta d.d. is, obviously, the postal service. It
has in recent years been made a separate company from previous
joint post and telecomunication company (Hrvatska pošta i
telekomunikacije, HPT), but the latter was privatised in the mean
time. I have not noticed if HPT ever used a flag, since it was
formed with the independence of Croatia in 1991. HPT changed its
logo several times since independence. However, HP is using a
flag, as it may be assumed, over the officas countrywide. I can't
say that there is a flag over each post office, far from it, but
usually the larges post offices include it over the main gates.
At least one is hoitsed over the main post office in Zagreb. The
flag of HP is yellow (yellow being traditional postal colour in
this region of the world) with black logo in the middle and the
company name beneath it. The logo is a (much) stylized postal
horn. It also remind me of some kind of a bird, however I have no
idea if that was intentional or if it is only my conclusion.
Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$hz.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 20 January 2005
Hrvatske željeznice , d.o.o. (<www.hznet.hr>)- The national
railroads company adopted a new symbol in early 1990's,
consisting of a circle with the company initials vaguely
reminding to the railroad tracks. The flag of white with the blue
symbol seems to be the company flag, but it seem that flags of
other colour combinations might also bee seen occasionally.
However, I can't remember when I have seen it hoisted as full
sized real flag, probably since the company is not in the best
financial situation (as probably happens with the national
railroads all over the world), so the sending on flags is not the
priority, presumably. A few years ago I noticed in the
company newsletter (and also on their web site) a competition for
the new symbols. However, now quite some time have passed on from
that and no change was made, so probably the competition did not
yeald anything of interest.
Željko Heimer, 20 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$vode.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
Hrvatske vode, d.d. (<www.vode.hr>)
- HV is the state company for water management in the widest
sence, from the management of the drinking water, water usage
management, control, survey and information on water conditions,
maintainance and regulation of water courses, ice and flood
control, protection of water resources and so on.
The company flag is vertical white flag with the company logo in
the middle occupying the entire width and with the company name
in the base. the logo conists of ten irregular wavy bars, top
five green and bottom five blue. It is in the ratio 2:3.
The logo as I have drawn it is a bit more clumsy then it really
is (i.e. my drawing does not give it what deserves), as it is
apparently much more balanced and elegant. I do not have a good
original to start from, so this should do until the next...
The flag is hoisted in front of the company headquarters
in Zagreb, but probably also in other place around the country,
even if I have not personally observed it.
Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$crosc.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 28 January 2005
Crosco is a daughter company in the INA
group, on their site at <www.crosco.com>
named "Crosco, Integrated Drilling & Well Services Co.,
Ltd." but the Croatian name is, I think, "Crosco d.o.o.
Integrirani naftni servisi". The company does oil drilling
and similar research and oil exploatation aroudn the world.
The flag is red with the company logo in the middle,
yellow oval with the company name and circula emblem in
red-white-blue. The flag is hoisted at the company
headquarters in Zagreb and probably on their platforms, too. In
Zagreb the flag is hoisted together with two other flags - the
mother company flag INA in the middle and to the viewers left the
flag of the "mining branch" - green over black bicolour
with two golden hammer in saltire and an oil drill palewise.
(There is, of course, a Croatian national flag on the building,
too, but not in the same hoist of flags).
Željko Heimer, 28 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$fina.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2006
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$fina1.gif)
the flag with the back logo visible through
image by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2006
FINA is the Financial Agency of Croatia, the main company in
the financial mediation, owned by the state dealing with the
public finances. It has been established in 2002 by the reform of
the state owned Institute for Payment Transactions = Zavod za
platni promet (ZAP), and the older Social Accounting Service =
Služba društvenog knjigovodstva (SDK). The SDK was the
organization in the socialist period that enjoyed the exclusive
right in the former state to perform payment transactions within
the country. In 1993 it was transformed into ZAP and gradually
the state removed the monopoly in the transactions. FINA has
offices in all cities around the county (over 180 offices).
I have noticed that recently over some of the offices in Zagreb a
flag appeared. To the best of my knowlage, this is the first time
that this agency uses a flag. The flag is very dark blue
(apparently, it looks almost black, but I doubt that it was the
colour of choice) with the logo of the Agency set along the very
bottom of the flag. The flag is apparently printed, so that the
reverse includes the logo along the oposite edge rotated 180
degrees. When the lighting is proper (i.e. almost whenever there
is enough light to see colours), the logo from the back side is
visible through semitransparent sheet. It may have been
intentional, or not...
The logo consists of inscripotion "Fina" using a
sans-serifed font with 9 rectangles ot the left of the letter F,
each gradually being thinner then the previous.
Željko Heimer, 14 October 2006
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$ina.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
INA d.d. (<www.ina.hr>)-
INA is the Croatian national petrol company, once monoplistic and
still majorly state owned (a large part of it was bought lately
by the Hungarian national oil company MOL). INA stands for
"Industrija nafte", but it is an economic giant with
buisness in variety of areas more or less connected with oil. It
also include a numbe of daughter companies, some of which have
flags of their own. Usually such companies fly their own flag
together with the flag of INA and not unfrequently with the flag
of the "mining industry" (green over black with golden
miners hammers, sometimes also with a derric overall). INA also
owns a number of petrol stations allaround the country and some
in the neighbouring countries (former Yugoslavia). While these
have previously often used the company flag as presented here,
today most of them use vertical "knatterfahnen" of
various merchnt campains, often quite colourful. The company flag
is thus relatively less frequently seen (at the various company
headquarters, as a rule). The flag is blue, vertical, with
the company emblem set within a white circle in the upper part of
the flag. The emblem consist of a bold-fonted initials INA
whitethere is a dot in the upper part of the first letter. This
emblem was adopted (I believe) sometime in the 1970's, and in the
latter years it seems to have been regualrly used without the
ring (and such ringles logo is available to be downloaded from
the company site at <www.ina.hr>).
Željko Heimer, 18 January 2005
![[Cultural Monument]](../images/h/hr$janaf.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 28 January 2005
Janaf - Jadranski naftovod, d.d. - This company maintains the
main Croatian oil pipeline starting at rafineries in Rijeka
region at the coast (Omišalj, I think, is the main terminal)
running twoards east all over the country, dividing into two
lines in the middle (around Sisak) one leading further east
towarda Serbia and the other going north east toward Hungary and
further on trough Slovakia, Belarus, Ukraine ending in Samara in
Russia after 3,200 km. The company flag is white with the
company logo in the upper part and five horizontal white
fimbriated stripes in the base, the topmost drak blue and the
remaining light blue. The flag is hoisted at the company
headquarters in Zagreb, but probably also on the installations
along the pipeline.
Željko Heimer, 28 January 2005