Vesna Grubesic was voted woman entrepreneur of the year, Katica Hauptfeld was voted woman manager of the year, and Irena Orlovic was voted best woman entrepreneur in social enterprise.
The ceremony was held under the auspices of President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, whose advisor Marko Jurcic said the president supported and promoted any activity which helped women not to be ghettoised in business and which promoted bigger trust in businesswomen.
Labour Minister Nada Sikic attended as Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic's envoy, saying her ministry had decided to adopt a series of measures to back those most vulnerable, including women. She said 2,500 women were recently employed with the Make a Wish programme and that a programme which could help 90,000 people find jobs was being drawn up.
Social Policy Minister Bernardica Juretic thanked KRUG for promoting women's equality in business. She said there were too few women entrepreneurs and that those who made it had to work much harder. She also said women were still under-represented in politics and business, and that this should be changed.