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Budimka good example of businessmen, government cooperation

Pozega, 31 January 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic cited today company Budimka from Pozega as a good example of cooperation between businessmen and the Serbian government, both through the programme “My First Salary” and in the education sector, through dual education.

During a visit to Budimka, which was bought by domestic ITN Group from Kosjeric in 2020, Brnabic pointed out that this company employs hundreds of people and that it has ambitious plans for further investments and for this year’s export.

She specified that a way was found to help Budimka through European IPARD funds, through the Ministry of Agriculture, in the amount of €1 million.

This is very important for both agriculture and food industry in Serbia, the Prime Minister said and recalled that Budimka has contracts with 400 subcontractors.

Through the programme “My First Salary”, 9,380 contracts with young people were made, and in the Zlatibor District alone 328 companies are included in this programme, in which 424 young people are working at the moment. One of these companies is Budimka, in which six people are employed through the programme “My First Salary”, Brnabic underlined.

Director of the National Employment Service Zoran Martinovic highlighted the good sides of the programme “My First Salary”, which was launched in 2020 owing to the Prime Minister and the Serbian government who created it.

The effect is very good because 48 percent of those who participated in the programme have already found job. Half of them is employed in the companies where they had training and others found jobs precisely owing to the skills they acquired through practice, Martinovic noted.

He added that by mid-February the National Employment Service will announce a wider set of public calls for other programmes too, which are planned to include 20,000 people.