In October 2019, fDi Magazine has crowned its Global Free Zones of the Year, recognising the most promising free zones across the world - those which offer the best investment environments and prospects for business expansion and economic development.
In November, the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Latvia will be opened in Riga, thus indicating that the economic cooperation between the two countries will become even closer. On October 3, Kairat Kambarov, the Counsellor of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Latvia, and representatives of the Baltic-Kazakhstan Economic Development Association visited Rezekne. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the regions of Latvia. It should be noted that this was the first official visit of the diplomatic representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Rezekne since the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Latvia. The visit was organized by the Rezekne Special Economic Zone (RSEZ) Administration, the delegation met with representatives of the Rezekne City Council and Rezekne Municipality Council, visited several sites of RSEZ, as well as visited Rezekne Academy of Technologies.
The eighth awards ceremony, presented by Rēzekne SEZ on September 13, 2019, honoured the best enterprises of 2018 following evaluation process of results achieved in 2018. During the ceremony, Rēzekne SEZ presented awards in 10 categories. Three companies of Rēzekne SEZ received the award “The Enterprise of the Year”: “LEAX Rezekne” RSEZ Ltd in the group of large / medium companies, as well as “Rēzeknes Dzirnavnieks” RSEZ JSC and “LATSTAB” RSEZ Ltd in the group of small companies. In addition, other companies were acknowledged for their contribution to the development of Rēzekne SEZ.
The World Free Zone Organization organized the annual international conference and exhibition for the fifth time, which took place in Barcelona, Spain, from 26 June to 28 June this year.
On March 21, representatives of Panevėžys and Visaginas municipalities of Lithuania visited Rēzekne within the project LLI-386 “Trans-Form” to acquire experience of Rēzekne Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in brownfield revitalization.
On Wednesday, February 20, 2019, a meeting of the Saeima Sustainable Development Commission took place in Riga. One of the objectives was to study how the status of Latgale Special Economic Zone (Latgale SEZ) and Rēzekne Special Economic Zone (Rēzekne SEZ) has influenced the development of Latgale's economic activity.
In 2018, the turnover of Rēzekne Special Economic Zone (SEZ) enterprises exceeded EUR 100 million, according to provisional data of performance indicators. Other performance indicators of Rēzekne SEZ enterprises have also significantly improved.
An investment object production complex, Viļakas street 1, is offered within the successful implementation of infrastructure development projects in Rezekne city, located at the territory of the Rezekne Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
November 18, 2018, Arvīds Zelčs, manager of "Rēzeknes dzirnavnieks" Rēzekne Special Economic Zone JSC, long-term member of Rēzekne SEZ Entrepreneurship Commission, has received the award "Rēzekne Honorary Citizen" for his special merit in favor of Rēzekne.