Belgrade, March, 20. 2010 (Serbia Today) – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic announced that the Ministry will establish a business council for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) next week in order to establish direct communications with this sector, which employs one million citizens in Serbia. Dinkic visited the small company Stublin in Stojnik near Arandjelovac, owned by Radovan Milojevic, who was declared the best entrepreneur in 2009. He said that the council will include the 80 most successful SMEs from all over Serbia.
The Serbian government wants and needs to help these entrepreneurs to expand their capacity and to expand the market and to employ more people, said the Minister of Economy and Regional Development. He pointed out that this sector employs most of the workforce and contributes to approximately 75% of GDP. Dinkic recalled that the state has provided soft loans for liquidity, which are intended for SMEs. He explained that the idea of establishing the SME business council is to tackle specific problems that these companies are faced with and also to increase their competitiveness. The Minister of Economy and Regional Development said that the council will include companies from different sectors, including the metalworking industry, bakeries, vulcanizes, the textile industry etc. Radovan Milojevic, who founded his company in 1993, was declared the best entrepreneur in Serbia for 2009 in an awards event held by Blic daily and Banca Intesa.
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