Head Of Quality Control at Studenac d.o.o.
Branka Hrehor graduated from the faculty of food technology at the University of J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek, where she is currently attending postgraduate studies, specialising in food safety.
In 2008, she started dealing with quality and since then has implemented a number of systems such as HACCP, ISO 14000, ISO 9000, and improved internal systems such as IFS, BRC, and GLOBALG.A.P.
She has worked in primary production, milling industry, meat industry, as well as the ice cream and frozen food industry. She was a manager at Agrokor corporation, where she oversaw all production companies within the group, and she’s currently a quality manager in the retail branch at Studenac d.o.o., where she is in charge of HACCP, quality control, quality assurance, and implementing private label products.
She has the certificates of lead auditor for the ISO 14000 norm, and certificates for auditors of the HACCP system and ISO 9000, GLOBALG.A.P., IFS, BRC, ISO 50000, OHSAS, and is a certified panelist for sensor analyses.
She consulted several companies for the introduction of a quality management system according to the ISO 9001 standard, the establishment of product health and safety based on the HACCP principles and environmental protection according to the ISO 14001 standard. She is a member of the Croatian Society for Quality, where she participated in the organising committee of the 13th Croatian Conference on Quality and 4th Scientific Conference EQO in 2013, and in the same year she organised the summit “First Agrokor Quality Days”. She is also a committee member of the exquisite quality platform.
She is a proud volunteer not only within the borders of her country, but she has also volunteered in Africa with young children.