Slovenia's biggest household appliance maker Gorenje has recently launched its plastic sink plant, and washing machine assembly line in the Serbian town of Zaječar. This is Gorenje's third manufacturing facility in Serbia. Gorenje's other facilities in Serbia include refrigeration appliances plant in Valjevo, water heater plant in Stara Pazova, sales company in Belgrade, and a network of 12 proprietary ...

Back in 2008, I wrote about Ball Packaging Europe, the German-based subsidiary of the U.S. Ball Corporation, pointing out that "Ball Packaging Europe has been one of a few foreign investors that really understands how the Serbian investment climate has been changing, and has moved to take advantage of that." Ball Packaging Europe is now investing again in Serbia (35 million ...

A few weeks back, we wrote about how Delta City shopping mall and Usce shopping center in Belgrade, brought a striking array of international retail names to the Serbian market. We noted that slowly, but surely, it looks like some international fashion brands are starting to figure it out: Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is a very interesting city with ...

It seems that more companies are realizing that Serbian market has a huge potential because this market, especially the retail market, is under-serviced. Nearly two years ago, the third largest company in Serbia, Delta Holding, opened in Belgrade 'Delta City', the largest shopping mall in the Balkans. Colliers nternational Serbia, as the exclusive leasing agent for the mall, achieved 100% ...

Blic is running an article entitled "All indicators pointing at big crisis. Threat of bankruptcy over Serbia." From the title, it's pretty obvious what it's about -- but the article seems extremely one-sided. The article does just that: it assumes that Serbia is in recession, and only talks to one analyst, Vladimir Gligorov, an "expert" at the Vienna Institute for ...

Just a few weeks ago, we were talking about the sale of 70 percent stake of JRB, Serbian leading river shipping company, to the Austria-based company DDSG owned by Serbian businessman Zoran Drakulic. The company ranked first at the tender, offering the price of Euro 24.5 million and investments in the amount of Euro 15.7 million. Last month, the Tender ...

Sometimes you just need to stand back and applaud a strategy that works so well. Many people thought that the Cyprus-based firm East Point Holdings, owned by Serbian businessman Zoran Drakulic would be in trouble earlier this year after the tender for the sale of the ‘Yugoslav River Shipping’ company (JRB) was cancelled. Potentially, that could have left East Point ...

In the last few years, we've seen a small number of Greenfield investment in Serbia. It's no secret that 90% of investment in Serbia has come from privatizations, but only 10 percent from Greenfield investment (in new projects). Over the weekend, B92 has a story about the Ball Packaging Europe company, one of Europe's leading beverage can producers, and a ...