About us

The idea of starting a business selling firewood for the EU market, primarily Italy, was born through Medjugorje and the discovery of two holy rosaries during the process of collecting firewood, found by Vicko’s brothers.
Medjugorje is a Roman Catholic shrine in Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited by over a million pilgrims from around the world each year.

When GOD IS FIRST AND PRAYER is in its place, everything falls into place.
The same goes for my business. I started exporting firewood to Italy in 2004, accompanied by the prayer of the holy rosary.

My company, the first to export firewood to Italy, was a service trade named MARIJANA-DRVOPROMET, located in Jasenovac, Croatia.

Based on the achieved business results in 2007, I was among the top Croatian exporters, and in 2008, I was featured in the Croexport CD, which contained relevant information about Croatian exports and a database of several thousand Croatian exporters.

In a circulation of 20,000 copies, it was distributed free of charge through WLW’s partner network in Europe, published by BISNODE on November 2, 2012.

Under the Croatian Export Offensive project conducted by BISNODE d.o.o. in May 2008, MARIJANA-DRVOPROMET ranked 2101st among 9720 business entities in terms of overseas sales revenue for 2007.

The ranking was done for a selected group of 9720 business entities whose sales revenue abroad in 2007 exceeded HRK 100,000 (€13,333).

The selected 9720 business entities represented 11.7% of the total number of observed business entities, i.e., those that submitted annual financial reports to the registry for 2007.

These data were published by BISNODE d.o.o. in Croatia on November 2, 2012.
From 2004 to 2009, I conducted the export of firewood primarily to Italy, exporting over 600 trucks of firewood.

In 2009, I signed a project for the construction of a biomass power plant in Croatia and put the company on hold. In 2017, I established the company DRVO-OGRJEV DOO through which I continued exporting firewood to Italy and other EU countries. MARIJANA-DRVOPROMET is awaiting the construction of forest biomass power plants with a capacity of 5 MW and the construction of a pellet plant in cooperation with RES BIOENERGIJA JASENOVAC d.o.o., in partnership with Austrian investors from Vienna.

Origin: The Glavinics are Croats, mostly from the vicinity of Opuzen. The highest number of Glavinics in the past hundred years were born in Potravlje near Sinj, Bacin near Hrvatska Kostajnica, and Mislinja near Opuzen, places where every tenth resident had the surname Glavinic. Today, there are around 700 Glavinics living in approximately 190 households in Croatia. In the mid-20th century, there were about 400 of them, so their number has nearly doubled since then.

Migration: The main migration routes of Glavinics in the past century have been recorded from Hrvace to Solin, as well as from Šipovo (BiH) and Metkovic to Dubrovnik. Glavinics are present in most Croatian counties, in a total of 50 municipalities and 70 settlements, predominantly in urban areas (63%). The largest populations of Glavinics today are in Metkovic (80), Dubrovnik (60), Sinj (50), Postira on the island of Brac (45), and Zagreb (45).

Coat of Arms: The silver shield depicts a church with two towers, and from the church’s roof emerges a lion holding a severed human head impaled on a sword in its right paw. Above, in the center, is a golden crown on which stands an eagle with spread wings, with a bishop’s staff on the right and a bishop’s mitre on the left. The shield is surmounted by a bishop’s hat. The coat of arms is taken from the seal of Sebastian Glavinic, the bishop of Senj and Modruš from 1689 to 1697. The seal is currently preserved in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb.

Glavinics are an old noble family originating from Glamoc in Bosnia, and they are also mentioned in the villages of Dupcani and Bužani in the Buško Blato region. The most famous member of this noble family was Sebastian Glavinic, the bishop of Senj and Modruš from 1689 to 1697. His family moved from Glamoc to Bosnia, and he was born in Podpican in Istria in 1632. He studied philosophy and theology in Graz, Vienna, and Tmav. He became a bishop by imperial appointment in 1689 and papal appointment in 1690. He died in 1697 in Sveti Petar near Gonjište Trh in Istria.

Literature: Bojnicic, 1899, 53. T 39. Mile Bogovic, Zvona, Bakar, 1982. Ljubovic Enver, 2001, 77. Ljubovic Enver, 2003, 116-117.

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF TRSAT: The most responsible for its present appearance is Franjo Glavinic, the former guardian of the monastery, who initiated the renovation and expansion works in August 1644. The church received its final form in 1824 when it was extended by 6 meters, and a bell tower was added, which it didn’t have before. Today’s basilica represents a combination of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Biedermeier architectural phases. The church of the Mother of God is adorned with altar paintings of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Nicholas, by the mannerist painter Serafin Schöna, a Swiss Franciscan, and other renowned artists of the 17th and 18th centuries.