ZAGREB, Sept 7 (Hina) - Croatian Telecom representatives announced on Thursday next week they would present the company's new visual image, which elicited the immediate reaction of the trade union of postal and telecommunications
workers, indignant at the decision. Croatian Telecom (HT) intends to promote its new identity during Zagreb's international autumn trade fair between September 11 and 17, HT representatives told reporters today, disclosing the new logo would use yellow and grey instead of the current blue and red. The trade union believes that behind HT management's decision to change the company's visual identity and name twice in two years lies the intention of Deutsche Telekom, which has a 35-percent share in HT, to ensure the majority share by setting up a new company without changing the law. The new logo will no longer bear the recognisable national colours, the union said in a stat
ZAGREB, Sept 7 (Hina) - Croatian Telecom representatives announced
on Thursday next week they would present the company's new visual
image, which elicited the immediate reaction of the trade union of
postal and telecommunications workers, indignant at the decision.
Croatian Telecom (HT) intends to promote its new identity during
Zagreb's international autumn trade fair between September 11 and
17, HT representatives told reporters today, disclosing the new
logo would use yellow and grey instead of the current blue and red.
The trade union believes that behind HT management's decision to
change the company's visual identity and name twice in two years
lies the intention of Deutsche Telekom, which has a 35-percent
share in HT, to ensure the majority share by setting up a new company
without changing the law.
The new logo will no longer bear the recognisable national colours,
the union said in a statement, adding changing the company's name
from the current Hrvatske Telekomunikacije into Hrvatski Telekom
endangers provisions from the HT Privatisation Law.
Under said law, former and current postal and telecommunications
employees are entitled to purchase shares under favourable
conditions, while war veterans and members of their families should
get the shares for free.
The union says the name and visual identity change will cost HT 25
million kuna ($3.2 million), the amount, the union adds, which HT's
management has deprived employees of by not paying salaries in line
with a branch collective agreement for post and
telecommunications.
Moreover, the union is concerned about the failure to react to such
squandering by the finance and economy ministers, who sit on HT's
supervisory board, and the communications minister, who chairs the
shareholders' assembly.
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