The winner of the 3rd year of the TREND TOP Exporter of the Year 2025 competition, sponsored by Eximbanka, was the company Sofer from Stara Ľubovňa, which produces complete machines, such as stone or waste crushers.

Representatives of Eximbanka Ing.Rastislav Podhorec, MBA and Matúš Šársky met late last week (5-7 November 2025) with a community of successful Slovak entrepreneurs operating in Dubai associated within the Slovak Business Council – UAE in Dubai (SBC).

Investors are looking for expansion opportunities, especially in countries with growth potential in commercial real estate or logistics centres.

Tatiana Gecova, Eximbanka’s risk analyst, in a commentary for TREND.sk, evaluated the updates of the OECD classification in relation to the riskiness of individual countries.

Representatives of Eximbanka (Ing.Rastislav Podhorec, MBA, Milan Horvath, Igor Barát, Pavol Tavač) welcomed Richard Raši, the Chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, at the bank’s premises today, 3 November 2025.

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Slovarm is a Slovak manufacturer of fittings, valves, sanitary fittings and measuring equipment based in Myjava. The company has been on the market since 2000 and continues a long tradition of production in the region. It was established as the successor of Slovak Armatúrka Myjava, thus continuing the long tradition of manufacturing fittings for air, water, steam and central heating distribution.

EXIMBANKA SR, through its insurance division, signed on 17 October 2025 an insurance contract with UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia for the insurance of a long-term export buyer credit to be provided to the Committee for Roads under the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan. The loan will finance the export contract of a Slovak exporter, Betamont of Zvolen, which exports and installs HSWIM dynamic weighing systems together with traffic monitoring and vehicle traffic violations, thus contributing to the improvement of road safety in Uzbekistan.

Betamont has been operating in Slovakia for more than 30 years. It focuses on the development and integration of proprietary intelligent technologies for road and rail transport. In the railway sector, it focuses mainly on signalling technology, while in road transport its systems fulfil mainly a notification and control function.

The company from Stara Ľubovňa started with welding of metal products, gradually expanded its activities to the production of components and today it can supply complete machines. Despite challenges such as the financial crisis, the company has managed to maintain its orders – in a critical period, it adapted by completely changing its production programme.