Head of the Section for the Policy of SME Development at the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development Katarina Obradovic-Jovanovic announced that a business event entitled “A Meeting with Buyers”, gathering representatives from multinational companies and SMEs, will be held on 15 November at the Belgrade Expo Center.
Obradovic-Jovanovic told a press conference that so far 25 multinational companies and over 200 domestic SMEs have applied for the meeting.
This business meeting will be dedicated to companies in the food, metals and machine sector, as well as the producers of processing equipment, she specified.
The meeting will be an opportunity to endorse competitive Serbian companies capable of responding to the needs of international corporations such as US Steel, Coca-Cola, Ball Packaging, Schneider Electric and Delhaize, in order to become part of their suppliers’ chain.
“A Meeting with Buyers” is realised by the EU through the Support to Enterprise Competitiveness and Export Promotion (SECEP) project, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development and in partnership with the SIEPA agency, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and the National Agency for Regional Development.
SECEP representative Andrzej Schafernaker said that the meeting with representatives of multinational corporations is a sign that Serbia and the EU see the SME sector as a leading economic development generator.
The event will be opened by Minister of Economy and Regional Development Nebojsa Ciric and Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Vincent Degert.