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Ministry of Economy and Regional Development chooses more flexible model of privatisation
Jagodina,
14 July 2008
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic said today in Jagodina that this Ministry has chosen a more flexible model of privatisation based on joint investment.
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Tanjug
Dinkic said that this Ministry will not be a slave to the models of auction and tender used so far, adding that the case of car maker Zastava is an example of a good model of joint venture.
However, Zastava will not be the only one that will get a strategic partner after the model of joint investment.
Our plan is to do the same with Jagodinska Pivara brewery, 14. Oktobar machine factory from Krusevac, the Bor mining and metallurgical complex RTB Bor and also with the Jagodina cables industry, when we see the result of the tender at the end of July, Dinkic said.
Dinkic said that the price of the company should rank second in importance for the state, while the investment, modernisation and growth in employment and exports should be the most important.
Our task is to make sure that this last phase of privatisation is carried out in such a way as to enable a quicker economic development of Serbia, Dinkic underlined.
Dinkic visited today Jagodinska Pivara brewery together with Executive Director of Heineken for Central and Eastern Europe Javier Belison.
After making a tour around the factory, Dinkic recalled that this year Heineken took over MB brewery from Novi Sad and purchased two breweries from Efes Pills, in Zajecar and Pancevo respectively. Heineken also expressed strong ambition to compete with the leading Apatinska Pivara brewery and Carlsberg in covering the markets of central and southern Serbia.
Dinkic said that Heineken will soon respond to the offer made by Jagodinska Pivara to become its strategic partner.
We have also invited their expert teams to make a detailed analysis of the brewery in order to determine what kind of investments are required to make the brewery profitable, said Dinkic.
He also spoke with Jagodina municipal president Dragan Markovic about equal regional development, the tourism potential of Jagodina and further economic development of the area.
Following the initiation of negotiations with Fiat on concluding the agreement on joint investment in Zastava, the entire region of Sumadija and Pomoravlje has become significantly more attractive to strategic investors and the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency is receiving inquiries daily, said Dinkic.
He said that the problem faced by all municipalities in this area in attracting major greenfield investments is that not a single municipality owns adequate city building land.
Due to this, we have proposed to the Serbian government to introduce new budgetary measures including help for local self-governments in buying land so that strategic partners may be offered free of charge building land as long as they build factories in certain municipalities, said Dinkic.
He said that he talked to the municipal president about forming an industrial zone covering 26 hectares in Jagodina, for which the government will provide funds.
Quicker development of central Serbia will be made possible by building industrial zones where strategic partners will build completely new factories and create new jobs, said Dinkic.
Accompanied by the municipal president, Dinkic also visited the aqua park, zoo and wax museum in Jagodina.
However, Zastava will not be the only one that will get a strategic partner after the model of joint investment.
Our plan is to do the same with Jagodinska Pivara brewery, 14. Oktobar machine factory from Krusevac, the Bor mining and metallurgical complex RTB Bor and also with the Jagodina cables industry, when we see the result of the tender at the end of July, Dinkic said.
Dinkic said that the price of the company should rank second in importance for the state, while the investment, modernisation and growth in employment and exports should be the most important.
Our task is to make sure that this last phase of privatisation is carried out in such a way as to enable a quicker economic development of Serbia, Dinkic underlined.
Dinkic visited today Jagodinska Pivara brewery together with Executive Director of Heineken for Central and Eastern Europe Javier Belison.
After making a tour around the factory, Dinkic recalled that this year Heineken took over MB brewery from Novi Sad and purchased two breweries from Efes Pills, in Zajecar and Pancevo respectively. Heineken also expressed strong ambition to compete with the leading Apatinska Pivara brewery and Carlsberg in covering the markets of central and southern Serbia.
Dinkic said that Heineken will soon respond to the offer made by Jagodinska Pivara to become its strategic partner.
We have also invited their expert teams to make a detailed analysis of the brewery in order to determine what kind of investments are required to make the brewery profitable, said Dinkic.
He also spoke with Jagodina municipal president Dragan Markovic about equal regional development, the tourism potential of Jagodina and further economic development of the area.
Following the initiation of negotiations with Fiat on concluding the agreement on joint investment in Zastava, the entire region of Sumadija and Pomoravlje has become significantly more attractive to strategic investors and the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency is receiving inquiries daily, said Dinkic.
He said that the problem faced by all municipalities in this area in attracting major greenfield investments is that not a single municipality owns adequate city building land.
Due to this, we have proposed to the Serbian government to introduce new budgetary measures including help for local self-governments in buying land so that strategic partners may be offered free of charge building land as long as they build factories in certain municipalities, said Dinkic.
He said that he talked to the municipal president about forming an industrial zone covering 26 hectares in Jagodina, for which the government will provide funds.
Quicker development of central Serbia will be made possible by building industrial zones where strategic partners will build completely new factories and create new jobs, said Dinkic.
Accompanied by the municipal president, Dinkic also visited the aqua park, zoo and wax museum in Jagodina.
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