Tovarna Olja Gea, the biggest producer of edible oils in Slovenia, saw its net profit increase by 40% to almost EUR 215,000 last year despite the sales revenue dropping by 2% to EUR 25m.

Impol, Slovenia's largest maker of aluminium products, has obtained a certificate proving its compliance with the international quality standard for the aerospace industry. This will allow the company to make forays into new markets.

Tourism contributed EUR 5.7bn or 12.3% to the Slovenian gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018, according to a report by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). The sector employed 110,700 people or 12.8% of total employment.

The management of Lonstroff, a Swiss maker of elastomers, has spoken up in defence of its Slovenia director in the aftermath of reports that he is suspected of defrauding his company of EUR 1.7m with the acquisition of land for a manufacturing facility near Logatec.

Last year around 1.8 million passengers passed through the three Slovenian international airports in Ljubljana, Maribor and Portorož, 8% more than in 2017, according to the Statistics Office.

The Constitutional Court has announced it will treat as an absolute priority the request from the centre-right opposition Democrats (SDS) and New Slovenia (NSi) to review the state budget documents passed in parliament last month.

A debate on precarious work hosted by the Labour Ministry and the National Council in Ljubljana on Friday agreed that everybody deserves decent pay for their work and has the right to social security. Such forms of work should be therefore be defined and measures found at the systemic level to tackle the issue, the debate heard.