June 14, 2010

14. June 2010.

MIROSLAV BOGICEVIC, DIRECTOR OF SABAC-BASED „FARMAKOM MB“CONCERN

At the proposal of the Club of Journalists of Serbia who report on the economy – related issues, Miroslav Bogicevic, Director of the Sabac-based „Farmakom MB“ Concern, was proclaimed publicly as the best businessman in 2008. The „Farmakom MB“ Concern won a few other top awards, which various associations give each year, and they are as follows: the best exporter of the year award, the best brand award and the award for humanitarian activities.

At the time when very few companies in the country may boast of carrying out business operations very well, „Farmakom MB“ increased its production by several times and raised the number of its employees.

Mr. Bogicevic is one of few businessmen that made investments in South Serbia, where he had launched production in antimony, copper and zinc mines in Raska.

Because Mr. Bogicevic wishes to put a stop to immigration from South Serbia, he has planned to make investments in the development of cattle-breeding and milk-production.

„We are going to focus on South Serbia, and not only on the mines in Raska and Medvedja, but also on the development of agriculture, since our country is primarily an agricultural one. All the above-mentioned activities will make it possible for 500 new workers to get employed in 2010. “

„You are one of very few businessmen who resume the operation of mines in the time of computerization“!

„The concern’ business policy is to become fully independent with respect to its raw-materials. The use of domestic know-how and raw – materials is a formula that proved to be good and that worked out perfectly”, Mr. Bogicevic said.

„That is how I decided to take over the closed „Lece“mine. I invested in the launching of production and in improvement of the working conditions. Our goal is getting 20,000 tons of lead concentrate and 12,000 tons of zinc per year. I am convinced that South Serbia is the richest part of the country. With the assistance of the dairy plant, we want to assist with making a change in the demographic map of South Serbia. We are planning to distribute cattle for insemination to farmers in the region and to make it possible for them to earn their living from cattle-breeding and milk-production, The people will then have the reason for staying in their villages, so that this is another way in which to contribute to preventing immigration and to dying out of every fourth Serbian village. There are 4,600 villages in Serbia now, while as many as 1,200 of them are going to disappear in a fifteen years’ time. We’ll consider ourselves very successful if we manage to prevent the dying out of villages through development of cattle-breeding. “