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berzNIK - YEAR II - NUMBER 24 -26th MAY 2008 - (SUPPLEMENT OF TENDERNIK)

FAMILY FARMERS
COMPETITION – CHALLENGE FOR
Date 26.05.2008 number 24
DAILY STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF PRINT MEDIA EVENTS
berzNIK
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Yet again, during election campaigns –


investments… investments…

During the second week of election campaigns, other ros. DHB is active in crediting legal entities and natural per-
than the usual party tribunes, speech competitions among sons, as well as in placement on developing markets. The
political rivals and, of course, the heated finger pointing, in takeover will be done after both banks obtain approval by
public focus were also the announcements on big invest- the National Bank of Macedonia and the competent regula-
ments. Believe it or not, besides being full with politics, tors in the Netherlands.
printed media top subjects were precisely the announce-
ments on big foreign investments entry. Another big investment marked last week. Iskra DD
from Slovenia is to invest in Macedonia. It plans ending all
- French to invest 60 million preparations by the end of this year and latest January the
Once again, throw good money after euros in Bunardzik; Ford, Re- following year to start building a factory in Bunardzik. Iskra
bad. There is a provoking mistake even on nault… to drive Macedonian investment will be carried out in two phases – around hun-
the site of the European Parliament. Instead parts… French company with dred persons will be employed in the first phase, whilst in
of Macedonian, the Slavic-Macedonian lan- Greenfield investment in Mace- the second, by the end of the investment, the number of
guage dawned on the site. Nobody has nei- donia. These are the headlines employees will reach up to 500. – The difference between
ther heard nor saw how the Report by Erik at the beginning of the week. Macedonia and other countries from the region is that you
Meijer on our country, which, despite being The Government’s announce- have a Government that actually wants to do something.
agreed upon and adopted, dawned on the ment that the Minister Vele We have an excellent experience with the current adminis-
European Parliament’s site with changed Samak is in closing negotiati- tration, which has done the job well and I think many impor-
name of our country’s language – Slavic-Ma- ons with the French company tant countries in this field can learn a lot from you, Mr.
cedonian. For three days, European citizens for direct investment in the free Sesok said.
were reading – the scandalous Greek provo- economic zone Bunardzik, bro-
cation. Even after the intervention by MFA ught a dose of optimism both Looked through the prism of economy, the week ended
and our Embassy this attribute for the spo- among business community just like it began – with the top news on the business com-
ken language of Macedonians has been de- and citizens. According to the munity, i.e. with the official start of the new established
leted and the agreed term – Macedonian announcement, French are go- Macedonian-Israeli company Agrilend, which after a year of
language - was returned. ing to produce aluminum motor postponement, accidently or not, starts before the elec-
That’s the way things are, folks. While heads for Ford, Renault, Citro- tions. Shareholders in the new company Agrilend are the
you are crowding the political runners’ en and other brands of cars. Government of Macedonia with 51 percents of shares and
stands and listen to the party auction on the The investment is to amount 60 49% is Israeli capital. The company was founded with a
state`s name – how both parties beat their million euros in the first phase nominal capital of 1.5 million denars (25 thousand euros)
breasts with Macedonian legacy, Greeks and will reach up to 100 millions and should be a direct competition to the private sector
work hard and effectively, aren’t they… Whi- within six years. At the start, regarding the agricultural products trade.
le Macedonia is being occupied with electi- 500 persons will be employed
ons, Greece is doing everything in its power and around thousand later, who The contract with the Israeli company Soli Group LCD
to ruin our positions in EU, which is obvious- will make a profit of over 200 was signed last year, which practically made official the ini-
ly working… Asymmetric or not, the dispute million euros within the next five tiative for establishment of a Macedonian-Israeli joint stock
with the name of Macedonia seems to have years. Currently, the negotiati- company, which will purchase the agricultural products sur-
large political dimension once again only at ons on entry of this investment plus and place it on foreign markets.
home, where people are carried away by are in their final phase, a com-
euphoria and patriotism, while outside bor- petition of Macedonia being one It is envisaged that this type of sale will make good
ders nothing has changed – lobbyists dozed of the neighbor countries. This marketing promotion of Macedonian agricultural products,
off, and who gives a damn about us. The will be first French Greenfield such as garden-stuff, then milk and dairy products, but of
way things are - Greek politicians are profil- investment in Bunardzik that is the processed agricultural products as well, in order to have
ing on the preoccupation of Macedonian going to be a turning-point of at- an organized performance on the demanding foreign mar-
politicians. Hence, the assurance by the tracting investments in Macedo- ket.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis nia. The income that this com- This week, agro businessmen from Canada are also
that the purpose of Greece is not to isolate pany intends to leave here scanning the terrain in Macedonia regarding investments in
Macedonia from EU and NATO, but believes amounts to 300 million euros in the field of stockbreeding. At the meeting with the Minister
its integration should contribute to enduring the pending five to ten years, of Agriculture Mr. Aco Spasenoski, they demonstrated inter-
stabilization and development of the region which is much more than John- est in investing in production of beef.
as a whole, is asymmetric with their latest son Controls or Johnson Mat-
moves… they together, Minister Samak - Macedonia could be an ideal place where we could
stated. Everything is prepared, invest in beef production. For the time being I cannot tell
only the potential investor should pick Macedonia! anything concretely where we are to direct our investments,
but we are planning to bring new kinds of livestock in your
- Demir Halk Bank bought the controlling stake of IK country – said Mr. Meno Cornelson, agro businessman
Banka. This is the news that marked the IK Banka takeover from Canada. He said the knowledge, rebirth and sun do
by the new foreign owner. The Bank announced signing sa- not think on citizens…
le contract of its dominant parcel of shares to the Dutch De-
mir Halk Bank. EBRD will remain the important shareholder
with a parcel of 25% of the shares. According to information Until the next Monday
by IK Banka, the Demir Halk Bank was established in the Makedonka Baldazarska
year of 1992. It has affiliates and branches in the
BerzNIK editor-in-chief
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and representation office
in Turkey. Its assets are estimated to about two billion eu- e-mail: berzNIK@interNIK.com.mk
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DAILY STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF PRINT MEDIA EVENTS
Date 26.05.2008

SECURITIES COMMISSION
FROM THE FIRST OF JUNE THE SLOVENIANS ARE SPREADING THE FUND NETWORK IN MACEDONIA

The trading of the Stock KD funds – to found two open investment funds
Exchange to become cheaper On the session being held on 19.05.2008, with which the President of the KHB, Marina
Nakjeva - Kavrakova was presiding, the Commission has given the permit for founding a com-
The Stock Exchange and the Depository have pany for fund management KD funds A.D. Skopje. The founders of KD Funds A.D. Skopje are
decreased the compensations for its services, one foreign legal entity – KD Skldi management company LLC, Ljubljana and two physical enti-
after the (KHV) Securities Commission ties from the Republic of Macedonia. The basic assets of the company amount 150 000 euros.
demanded to recheck their height and to per- It is envisaged for the company to found and manage two open investment funds. With the foun-
form a correction dation of the new fund Management Company, increases the competitiveness of the investment
work on the Macedonian market of securities. Along with KD funds A.D. Skopje, there are total
of four fund management companies in the country.
The Securities commission has given
the accordance to the new Pricelists about ON THE DEMAND OF THE PUBLIC PROSECUTION
the height of the compensations being
charged by Makedonska Berza A.D. Skopje The shares of Swisslion in Agroplod – blocked
and the Central depository for securities
J.S.C Skopje, with which the commissions On the demand of the State public prosecution of RM, the Securities Commission has
paid from the clients decrease. This means adopted a decision with which Swisslion LLC Skopje is banned of disposing, alienating, encum-
that the trading on the Macedonian market bering, realizing right to lien, and one limits the right to vote on 5 339 shares that they have in
of securities becomes cheaper. The Stock Agroplod A.D. Resen, until the effectiveness of the court procedure led before the Court of First
Exchange and the Depositary have instance Skopje 2. Namely, the State prosecution office has filed charges against Swisslion
decreased the compensations for their serv- LLC Skopje for determining the nullity of the signed agreement with the Ministry of economy for
ices, after the KHV demanded to recheck the sale of 5 339 shares of Agroplod A.D. Resen.
their height and to perform a correction.
With this move, the Stock Exchange and the
Depositary are monitoring the policy of KHV, MICROGRANULAT AND KARPOS – PREDILNICA
which decreased the compensations that
were being charged by them for about 30 Annulment of the registration
percents. The new pricelists of the Stock
Exchange and of the Depositary will be The Securities Commission will demand the Central Register of the Republic of Macedonia
applicable from 1st of June, and they will be to annul the decision for registering the joining of Mikrogranulat A.D. Tetovo with the Karpos –
operational until 1st of October, after which Predilnica A.D. Kriva Palanka. At the same time, KHV has reached a decision with which
one will perform an analysis on the market Karpos – Predilniac A.D. Kriva Palanka and the person liable, are being indebted to perform the
in order to determine the effects of the over- annulment of the registration. The Securities Commission commanded the Macedonian Stock
all decrease of the services and the possibil- Exchange A.D. Skopje to timely stop the trading with the shares of Karpos – Predilnica A.D.
ities for new decrease of the compensations Kriva Palanka, and the Central Depositary of Securities A.D. Skopje for a period of time not to
will be checked. operate the non trading transactions of the shares of Karpos – Predilnica A.D. Kriva Palanka.

KIB AD Kumanovo the Bank is made, which amounts ordinary shares and 6.097 preference shares.
601.573.440, 00 denars, and the same is divid- The nominal value of one share amounts 1.720
With a new name and with ed to 343.655 ordinary shares and 6097 pref- denars. This decision will be realized after the
lowered assets erence shares, by annulling 4.477 own shares
in amount of 7.700.440, 00 denars. The nomi-
registration in the trade register.
On the assembly, the shareholders have
Stater Banka AD is the new name of nal value of one share is 1.720, 00 denars. adopted a decision for the Business policy and
Corporate Commercial Bank, or shortly KIB AD After lowering the basic assets, the initial the financial plan of KIB AD Kumanovo for
from Kumanovo. capital of the Bank will amount 593.873.000, 2008, as well as the Development (Strategic)
- The decision on changing the Bank’ na- 00 denars, and the same id divided to 339.178 plan of the Bank for the period 2008-2012.
me was adopted by the shareholders of the As-
sembly, held on 22.05.2008, and the same be- Milestone
comes effective after receiving previous appro- Last year, the corporation Milestone bought the Corporate Commercial Bank (Komercijal-
val from the Governor of the national Bank of no Investiciona Banka) – KIB AD Kumanovo. After the last emission of shares Milestone owns
Macedonia, stand in the information which the 90, 98% of the ordinary shares. So far, the Milestone Corporation invested in Macedonia over
Bank published on the Macedonian Stock Ex- 22, 5 million euros. Otherwise, milestone owns 50% of Zegin, and 50% of Zegin Tin (owner of
change. wine vault Lozar Veles).
Otherwise, the Bank in the last year reali- Milestone is a Nordic group, which functions in the field of banking, insurance and mana-
zed total income of 172.538.038, 00 denars, gement with finances. Milestone’s mission is to establish itself as a leading Nordic financial
the total expenses are 161.994.864, 00 de- group which offers investments in its own basic industries.
nars, whilst the profit before taxation is Milestone owns and manages Sjova, one of the biggest insurance companies, Invik & Co,
10.543.174, 00 denars. Swedish financial group and Askar Kapital, investments bank.
On the annual Assembly, the shareholders The net income of Milestone inclusive with 2007 amounts 21, 332 million ISK, the total
have adopted a decision for lowering the basic obtainable capital amounts 69, 513 ISK, whereas the total assets is 391, 627 million ISK.
assets of the Bank by annulment – withdrawal Last week, the corporation donated 60.000 euros in charity in Macedonia. Of them, 30.000
of their own shares, because according to the to Polio Plus NGO intended for aid of the people with special needs and the other half to the
Law on Banks, if the Bank does not make Museum of Macedonia, respectively for the support of its task in continuing the research, pro-
expropriation of its own shares in period of one tection and representation of the historical and cultural heritage of Macedonia.
year, it is obliged to annul them without exten- Milestone announced donation for the education, respectively for offering scholarships to
sion. students for Macedonia, who want to get a diploma for postgraduate studies in the field of
Therefore, exertion on the basic assets of finances and marketing at one of the universities in Island.
Date 26.05.2008 number 24
DAILY STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF PRINT MEDIA EVENTS
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19.05.2008 MONDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS
C O N T E N T S
Apart from the regular reports and reviews for the must be organic. Cow milk is considered organic after
occurrences on the Stock Exchange, the newsrooms al- six months feeding with fodder with certificated organic
so relay the atmosphere from the Saturday’s concert of origin. According to company’s records organic produc-
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 the Balkan star Zdravko Colic and the English pop gro- tion is the most emerging sector in the world farming. As
up Sugababes which was held on Makedonija square of 1990, the sell of organic food in Europe increases
SECURITIES COMMISSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 and which was organized on the occasion of the rebran- from 20% to 24% a year.
ding of Makedonski telekomunikacii into T-Home in the - Today’s edition of the daily newspapers relayed
KIB AD KUMANOVO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 economic columns of today’s edition of the daily news- the weekly stock exchange analysis, according to
papers. which, there was a small turnover on the Stock Exchan-
berzNIK, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY........... 5-7 - Money are becoming expensive, is the title of the ge last week as well. A turnover of 2.3 million euros was
interview with the First General Manager of Stopanska hardly realized within these five working days together
CONVERSATION ON THE OCCASION. . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 banka Gligor Bisev, published in the daily newspaper with block transaction of Invest Bank-Skopje by which
Vecer, in which he states his opinion about the events over thousand of shares have been sold for a sum of
INTERVIEW: KOCE PETROV, OWNER OF DUNA regarding the increase of the interest rates of the loans. 144,000 euros. The biggest turnover was realized on
COMPUTERS – SKOPJE...................10-11 It is more than certain that by the end of the month the the Official market of over 80% from the transactions.
banks will increase the interest rates of the loans for The first five companies were Komercijalna banka-
LAND POLICY IN MARKET AND CONSUMERS’ about 1%, as a response to the signals they received Skopje, Alkaloid, Construction Company Granit, Makstil
INTEREST.........................................11-12 from the NBRM. According to Gligor Bisev, First General and Makpetrol. The value of the shares declined throug-
Manager of Stopanska banka, there is no room for the hout the week, only the share of Fersped recorded an
berzNIK, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY...........13-15 banks to absorb the interest rates increase through mo- increase of 2.5% and the biggest decline of over 13%
re efficient operation. He predicts that these moves will recorded RZ Instituti The stock exchange index MBI-10
WEEKLY MAGAZINES.....................................16 not affect much the citizens and the companies which recorded growth of 1.05%. The index of publicly owned
are already into debts, and what will the reaction be of companies MBID increased by 0.38% and the bond in-
EVENTS THAT MARKED THE WEEK..............17 those who planned to raise loan is yet to be seen. As a dex OMB increased by 0.14%.
rule, everywhere in the world, when the monetary poli- On MSE risky, in investment funds safe, is a head-
WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE MACEDONIAN STOCK cy gives a signal for change of the interest rates, the line in today’s edition of the daily newspaper Biznis.
EXCHANGE...............................................18-19 banks follow it in one to one ration. Monetary policy has Saving in bank does not provide profit, because an-
sent a signal that money becomes expensive through nual interest rates move between 8% and 10%. There-
the increase of the nominal interest rates. fore, most of the citizens redirected their money towards
I M P R E S S U M At the end of June, 208 to 30 million euros will flow
into the state budget as a dividend form the profit of last
the stock exchange currently overwhelmed by calm and
trade fall. Investing across investment funds guarantees
year’s operation of Makedonski telekomunikacii, Biznis safe profit. In this case, investing is entrusted to profes-
published. The new government that will be formed by sionals who invest money on foreign securities markets.
the parties, i.e. the coalition which will win the elections But, this is not the only advantage compared to individu-
will decide for which purpose will be aimed the funds. al investing. The basic advantage lies in the fact that in
Publishing: INTERNACIONAL NIK AD - Skopje Beside the government and the dominant owner Magy- accordance to The Law of Foreign Currency Operati-
Media library and digital archive ar Telecom, dividend will be paid to the minor sharehol- ons, investment funds can invest in foreign financial ins-
Editors office: berzNIK ders, (they should share about two million euro), and truments, and domestic natural and legal entities do not
Address: Square MAKEDONIJA bb, p.box 882 Skopje, 1000, most of them are employees and pensioners from Ma- have that opportunity.
R.Makedonija kedonski telekomunikacii. Utrinski vesnik published the analysis of Deutsche
Phone. 02/25.32.800 faks: 02/25.32.839
web: www.interNIK.com.mk;
- Swedmilk to purchase organic milk, Dnevnik pub- Welle, according to which, the brokers predict that the
e-mail: info@interNIK.com.mk lished. Dairy Swedmilk yesterday announced their plan price of the oil will increase, unlike the representatives
to purchase organic milk. In that occasion the company of OPEC, who claim that it will stabilize. In any case,
Executive Director: Zdravko Josifovski will organize informative campaign for farmers from six they agree that the price of the oil will increase with cer-
Account Menager: Divna Pesic regions in the country. Meetings with farmers from Bito- tain oscillations until the end of the year, warn the ex-
Public relations: Natasa Dimovska la, Kavadarci, Lipkovo, Mavrovo and in company’s pre- perts and this will of course not go round our country.
ICT Manager: Kiro Velkovski mises are planned for next week. The estimations of the brokers are different and are mo-
Marketing manager: Ivona Josifovska - Basic rule for the organic milk is that the fodder ving from 140 to 200 dollars per barrel of crude oil.
Assistent: Stojne Danilova
Logistics manager: Ana Petrova 2. TOP NEWS - IMPORTANCE BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
Finance manager: Gordana Stojanovska
1. SWEDMILK- CAMPAIGN FOR ORGANIC MILK PRODUCTION (*****)
STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF EVENTS IN THE 2. ON MSE RISKY, IN INVESTMENT FUNDS SAFE (**)
PRINT MEDIA berzNIK
DNEVNIK THE EURO
berzNIK is founded in year 2007. p.1 MONEY STARTS TO BECOME EXPENSIVE VECER
p.5 SWEDMILK TO PURCHASE ORGANIC MILK p.1 WE GOT IN MACEDONIA THROUGH THE
STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF EVENTS IN THE p.7 BIG DEMAND FOR MACEDONIAN WORKERS FRONT DOOR
PRINT MEDIA berzNIK p.7 THE PRODUCTIVITY MUST INCREASE p.6 ORGANIC MILK FOR HIGHER PROFIT
Number: 24 p.7 CARRIERS OF THE YEAR DECLARED p.7 THE STOCK EXCHANGE RECORDS LOW
Date: 26.05.2008 BIZNIS TURNOVER THIS WEEK TOO
p.1 RISKY ON MSE , SAFE IN INVESTMENT FUNDS VREME
IT IS DISTRIBUTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY p.1 A LOT CAN BE DONE, WHAT LACKS IS PRO- p.6 THE POLICY REDUCED THE TRADE
MOTION AND CONTACTS p.6 BILLIONAIRE CONVINCES YAHOO TO ACCEPT
FRONT PAGE PHOTO: p.2 INVESTBANKA BLOCK – POSITIVE SIGNAL MICROSOFT`S OFFER
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN
FOR INVESTORS p.7 BIG TAXES SHOCK THE SMALL COMPANIES
CONTINENTAL
p.3 IN JUNE WILL BE PAID THE LAST YEAR`S DIVI- p.7 OIL PRICE BREAKS RECORDS
Photo: DEND OF AT LEAST 28 MILLION EURO! VEST
Robert Spasovski p.4 ON MSE RISKY, IN INVESTMENT FUNDS SAFE p.3 SWEDMILK- CAMPAIGN FOR ORGANIC MILK
p.11 BUSINESS COMMUNITY INCLUDED IN PROG- PRODUCTION
Editorial staff of berzNIK RAMME PREPARATION p.4 THE AGREEMENTS WITH T-HOME DO NOT
Internet distributive system: www.interNIK.com.mk p.15 DEPRECIATION OF MBI-10, INCREASE OF MB- HAVE TO BE SIGNED
Editor: Makedonka Baldazarska ID AND OMB NOVA MAKEDONIJA
Journalist: Vaska Mickoska, Kiro Simonovski p.15 THE OFFICIAL MARKET WITH 16.8 MILLION p.9 2 MILLION EURO TURNOVER LAST WEEK
DTP: Tatijana Trpkovska DENARS OF TURNOVER p.9 THE GREEK BLOCKADE LOOSENS?
Editorial staff: p.15 MBI REPORT FOR 16.05.2008 p.9 THE PRODUCTS OF IGM TRADE WITH CE-
News Evaluator: Anita Bashoska, R. Tasovska UTRINSKI VESNIK MARK
[operators]:Mare Lazarevska, Arslan Skoro, Zoran Stamatovski, p.7 FOR THE BROKERS THE PRICE OF THE OIL p.9 SLAVESKI WILL PRESENT MACEDONIA IN
Martin Arsovski, Gorge Redzik, Toni Arsovski i Darko Tripunovski FRONT OF EBRD
[translators]: translator's manager Senka Mihajlovska, Angelina
WILL INCREASE AND FOR OPEK IT WILL STA-
Filipovska, Slobodan Trajkovski, Aleksandar Stamenkovski, Aneta
BILIZE p.9 OIL BREAKS RECORD AGAIN
Menoska, Filip Koviloski, Darko Ivanovski p.7 CAMPAIGN FOR ORGANIC MILK PRODUCTION p.9 THE FARMERS CAN EARN MORE ON ORGAN-
Fotoreporter: Robert Spasovski p.7 IFC TO SUPPORT INVESTMENTS IN MACEDO- IC MILK
NIA SPIC
Marketing, distribucija i prodazba: p.10 WORLD ECONOMY ON THE EDGE OF THE p.4 FIRST FREIGHT CAR WAGONS ALLOWED
INTERNACIONAL NIK AD - Skopje DISASTER PASSING TOWARDS GREECE
p.10 SLOVAKIA GETS THE GO – AHEAD TO ADOPT
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DAILY STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF PRINT MEDIA EVENTS
Date 26.05.2008

20.05.2008 TUESDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS
The announcement of the Minister obliged concession of Macedonian airports. For conces- business will remain without work because of
for attracting foreign investments, Vele Samak, sion, this comprises building, reconstruction and small profitability and the impossibility to use
for the entering of French company in free eco- usage of the airports Alexander the Great and European funds, state experts for Dnevnik,
nomic zone Bunargik, is the most significant St. Apostle Paul, and for construction of new analyzing what will mean the Macedonian acce-
news in today’s printed media. The company will cargo-airport in Shtip, documentation had sub- ssion in the EU.- The European market will tell
produce aluminum engine parts for ford, Rena- mitted the companies TVA from Turkey, Vienna who can and who cannot be part of the competi-
ult, Citroen, and other brand names. - This will airport from Austria, Hochtief from Germany and tive relations. In order not to happen complete
be the first French Greenfield-investment in Bu- Egis from France/Great Britain. The second downfall of small businesses, firstly, laws should
nargic, which will make turning point in attract- phase of tender will start after detail considering be adopted in order to support the bulking and
ing investments in Macedonia. The profit , that of documentation, when the commission for im- maintaining of small business and small agricul-
will make the company in Macedonia ,will plementation procedure will submit demand for turalists - recommends Professor Boris Anakiev.
amount over 300 million euro in the following fi- offerings from qualified companied. From the air But, apart from that, the contributions from the
ve-ten years much more than Johnson controls traffic, media marked the landing to Skopje’s air- EU entrance, are still greater that the losses, be-
and Johnson Matthey together, underlines the port of the new Macedonian charter company cause that would mean increased foreign in-
Minster Samak, who expects the Board of Di- Airlift service, that form the following week vestments, obtaining European money and sup-
rectors of the French company to make final de- should have flights on relation Sofia – Ohrid, two port in introducing higher standards for producti-
cision in the following days or weeks. times in a week during the summer. on and safety.
Another foreign investment, but this time in Deutsche Telecom reported the Commissi- In Stock market an analysis of Bizniz reads
the baking sector, is top news in today’s news- on for protection of competition for entering of that, foreign investments have increased the
papers. Namely, Damir form Netherlands has the German brand name in Greek OTE, with participation on the Official market on the Stock
signed contract with IK Banka, for purchasing of which can be made monopoly in mobile telepho- Market the previous month. According to statisti-
the controlling stake of shares. The undertaking ny in Macedonia, because this company, with cal data on the Stock Market, foreign participati-
will be realized when the two banks will receive the bargain, will become proprietor of T-Mobile on has increased for one percent, respectively
permission from National Bank of Macedonia and Cosmofon, inform the newspapers. What foreign legal entities had participated with
and competent regulators in Netherlands. The will happen at us, where in accordance with the 20,51%, and the foreign physical entities with
price ,at which will be sold over 62 percents of regulations for protection of competition, one 2,29%, with which the total participation of for-
the capital of IK Banka ,haven’t been announ- company can own two mobile operators, the bo- eigners on the Official market and with shares
ced, but from IK Banka are expecting the new dies in competence decision is still to come. If and bonds amounts 22,81%.
shareholder and strategic partner of the bank to the commission ascertains that this bargain From the world’s news, the media marks
keep and increase the trend of increase and de- would make monopoly in mobile telephony in the news for another increase of petroleum pri-
velopment of its experience and resources, with the country, then the Greek OTE should sell ce over the limit of 127 dollars per barrel, which
this will be provided additional opportunities and Cosmofon. According to the newspaper, the followed after the statement of the president of
advantages for the companies and citizens in commission for protection of competition, in pe- OPEC, that petroleum production will not incre-
Macedonia. riod of 25 to 90 days will come with decision for ase, because the world is already sufficiently su-
Printed media followed the public opening this case. pplied.
of tender documentation in the first phase for Large number of agriculturalists and small
2. TOP NEWS - IMPORTANCE BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
1. THE FRENCH TO INVEST 60 MILLION EUROS IN BUNARDZIK (*****)
2. DUTCH DHB BUYS EC BANK (*****)
DNEVNIK NARDZIK
p.5 ANTIMONOPOLY COMMISSION TO MONITOR THE MERGING VECER
OF T-MOBILE AND COSMOFON p.6 THE FRENCH TO INVEST 60 MILLION EUROS IN BUNARDZIK
p.8 AIRLIFT SERVICE- NEW MACEDONIAN AIRLINE p.6 IK BANK UP FOR SALE TO DHB BANK
p.8 THE EU INTEGRATION WILL EXTINGUISH THE SMALL FARM- p.7 IS THERE GOING TO BE MONOPOLY IN THE MOBILE TELEPH-
ERS ONY
p.9 HOLLAND DEMIR HALK BANK BUYS EC BANK p.7 FOUR COMPANIES RACING FOR THE AIRPORTS
p.9 FOUR COMPANIES IN RACE FOR MACEDONIAN AIRPORTS VREME
p.9 FRENCH COMPANY POTENTIAL INVESTOR IN BUNARDZIK p.6 THE DUTCH TOOK OVER IK BANK
BIZNIS p.6 TOMAS MIROW – NEW PRESIDENT OF EBRD
p.1 PRODUCTION OF PARTS FOR THE ENGINES OF FORD, RENA- p.6 MOBILE TELEPHONY EXAMINED BY THE ANTI MONOPOLISTS
ULT... p.7 THE FRENCH TO ENTER BUNARDZIK
p.1 DEMIR-HALK BANK BUYS CONTROLLING STAKE OF IK BANKA VEST
p.4 AIRLIFT SERVICE TO BRING TOURISTS FROM SOFIA TO p.3 DUTCH BANK PURCHASES PACKAGE OF SHARES OF IK BANK
OHRID
p.12 112,382,000 DENARS TO BE UNVEILED p.6 AN – 24 OF AIRLIFT SERVICE LANDED
p.12 REPLEK WITH PROFIT OF 48 MILLION DENARS p.6 FOUR COMPANIES TO SUBMIT OFFERS FOR THE AIRPORTS
p.12 CONVERSION OF PRIORITY SHARES NOVA MAKEDONIJA
p.13 MBI-10 DROPS BY 9, 39 INDEX POINTS p.8 AIRLIFT SERVICE TO FLY CHARTER
p.13 SHARES OF GRANIT SKOPJE-THE MOST TRADED p.8 FOUR COMPANIES TO GO AFTER MACEDONIAN AIRPORTS
p.13 MBI REPORT 19.05.2008 p.8 DEMIR-HALK BANK TAKES OVER IK BANKA
p.15 INCREASED TRADE PARTICIPATION OF THE FOREIGN INVES- p.8 GRANIT WITH 50 PER CENT OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE
TORS TURNOVER
p.16 PETROLEUM PRICE OVER 127 DOLLARS AGAIN p.8 FRENCHMEN WILL PRODUCE CAR ENGINE PARTS FOR
UTRINSKI VESNIK FORD, AUDI AND PEUGEOT IN BUNARDZIK
p.9 IT WILL BE EXAMINED WHETHER THERE WILL BE MONOPOLY SPIC
IN MOBILE TELEPHONY p.6 FOUR COMPANIES SHOW INTEREST FOR MACEDONIAN AIR-
p.11 DUTCH DHB BUYS EC BANK PORTS
p.11 THE OFFERS ON AIRPORTS CONCESSION – OPENED p.6 DEUTSCHE TELEKOM STARTS DISSUADING
p.11 MAKPETROL WILL PAY DIVIDEND OF 1 000 DENARS PER SHA- p.6 FORD, RENAULT AND CITROEN WILL USE MACEDONIAN
RE PARTS?
p.11 FRENCH COMPANY WITH GREEN-FIELD INVESTMENT IN BU-
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21.05.2008 WEDNESDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS
The strategic partnership between the lead- price reduction examining at the same time pos- for which the Dutch DHB is interested, then the
ing world company for mobile telephony, Voda- sibilities for new price reduction of compensa- domestic shareholders who own the dominant
fone and VIP operator is today’s breaking news tions, convey all of today’s newspapers. package in the Macedonian banking sector
in all daily print media. The first joint product of The Ombudsmen’s office wants termination could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
these two companies which is presented in Ma- of the contract by which Swisslion Company Out of a total 17 banks only two to three
cedonia is the Blackberry solution, and it is a from Skopje was sold state shares in factory Ag- small banks remained in ownership of domestic
matter of licensed technology which enables roplod from Resen, because the deal had been shareholders. In the interview with the Professor
easy access to internet and e-mail through mo- signed during election campaign two years ago, Mihail Petkovski published today by Nova Ma-
bile phone, and which is introduced in Macedo- when SDSM was in power. At the request of the kedonija, he explains that the presence of for-
nia for the first time. Nikola Ljushev, Chief Exe- Ombudsmen’s office, the Securities Commissi- eign capital I positive, nevertheless he adds that
cutive Officer of VIP, pointed out that the Mace- on passed decision two days ago by which it for- it should not be idealized and brings risks with
donian subscribers can now enjoy the best bids Swisslion to possess, sell and pledge sha- itself.
products and services from their exclusive part- res in Agroplod until the court procedure is over. KD funds AD Skopje is the new company for
nership with Vodafone, which otherwise exists There are 5,339 shares which on June 24, 2006 funds management that received work permit
since 2003. This will also enable more direct be- had been sold to Swisslion - Skopje, which is from the Securities Commission. Founders of
nefits as approach to exclusive mobile devices, daughter-company of Swisslion from Takovo, KD funds are one foreign legal entity - KD Asset
services, larger international roaming coverage Serbia, writes today’s issue of Vecer. Management Company D.O.O Ljubljana and
and other products of the Vodafone group, as Dnevnik conveys interesting topic: - We will two physical entities from Macedonia. It is
well as approach to its sponsorships. make biodiesel from tobacco seed. The Toba- planned the company to found and manage two
Today, there is excellent news for everybo- cco Institute in Prilep planted specific types of open investment funds.
dy who wants to make money through the Stock tobacco on experimental field in order to produ- The results of the yesterday’s trading are
Exchange. As of the beginning of the next ce biodiesel. Director of the Institute, Kiril Fili- conveyed by Biznis. On the securities market on
month they will be able to do that cheaper, i.e. povski, informed that experts in cooperation Tuesday was carried total trade value of
by lower commission. Practically, since June 1st with the company Veda are working on tobacco 39.672.916, 78 denars through 189 transac-
this year the stock jobbing on the Macedonian prototypes which can provide seed for biodiesel. tions. The total value by markets was the follow-
capital market cheapens. The Securities and According to the owner of Veda, Boris Jankov- ing: on the Official market 31.515.612, 79 de-
Exchange Commission yesterday reported that ski, previous tests have indicated that biodiesel nars were realized through 139 transactions,
they agreed the new tariffs for the allowances from tobacco seed has higher efficiency, and while the other 8.157.364, 00 denars were reali-
the Macedonian Stock Exchange and the Cent- tests were also made on rocket diesel motor. zed on the regular market through 50 transacti-
ral Securities Depository. The implementation of If announcements for sale of Investbanka ons. MBI-10 dropped by 0.14 percent, MBID re-
the new tariffs will start on June, 1 and will last are true, which proclaimed that an Austrian bank corded decline of 0.59 percent, OMB recorded
until October, 1, after which an analysis will be in a partial ownership of Erste Bank is interest- increase of 0.44 percent.
made to determine the effects from the services ed to buy it, as well as the rumors on IK Banka

2. TOP NEWS - IMPORTANCE BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS


1. VODAFONE ENTERS IN MACEDONIA (*****)
2. THE STOCK EXCHANGE TURNOVER CHEAPENS (****)

DNEVNIK p.11 VODAFONE AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET THROUGH VIP


p.7 BIODIESEL FROM TOBACCO SEED p.11 THE STOCK EXCHANGE TURNOVER CHEAPENS
p.7 TTP BITOLA TO EMPLOY 10 PEOPLE VECER
p.7 VODAFONE ENTERED MACEDONIA p.1 SWISSLION TO LOSE AGROPLOD
p.7 STOCK EXCHANGE`S LOWER COMMISSIONS p.6 INVESTMENTS OF 67 MILLION EURO
BIZNIS p.6 SWISSLION TO LOSE AGROPLOD
p.1 PAYMENT OPERATIONS INCREASE AT 260.6 BILLON p.6 TRADE ON MSE GETS CHEAPER
DENARS p.7 BLACKBERRY IN MACEDONIA FOR THE FIRST TIME
p.1 TRADING ON CAPITAL MARKET BECOMES CHEAPER VREME
p.3 VODAFONE ENTERS IN MACEDONIA p.1 THE CRAFTSMEN CHASE THE UKRAINIAN OIL
p.3 TERRAIN FOR POSSIBLE INVESTMENTS IS EXPLORED p.4 KISELA VODA TO SUE THE CEMENT FACTORY AGAIN
p.3 EVN INVESTED 67 MILLION EUROS p.6 THE CRAFTSMEN CHASE THE UKRAINIAN OIL
p.5 PAYMENT OPERATIONS INCREASE AT 260.6 BILLON p.6 VODAFONE FLIED IN MACEDONIA WITH FORMULA 1
DENARS p.7 COSMOFON MAY HAVE NEW OWNERS?!
p.12 ALKALOID, STOPANSKA BANKA BITOLA AND MAKPETROL VEST
TOP THREE p.7 BLACKBERRY ARRIVED IN MACEDONIA
p.12 MSE CHARGES HIGHEST FEES IN THE REGION NOVA MAKEDONIJA
p.12 TRADING ON CAPITAL MARKET BECOMES CHEAPER p.1 MAKEDONSKI ZELEZNICI ARE UNDER GREEK EMBARGO
p.13 DECLINE OF MBI-10 AND MBID EVERY SECOND DAY
p.13 SHARES OF MACEDONIAN STOCK EXCHANGE – MOST p.1 FOREIGNERS BUY ALL MACEDONIAN BANKS
TRADED p.2 FOREIGNERS BUY ALL MACEDONIAN BANKS
p.13 MBI REPORT 20.05.2008 p.8 VIP AND VODAFONE BRING US BLACKBERRY
p.14 SWISSLION`S VOTING SHARES IN AGROPLOD LIMITS p.8 MBI-10 DROPS, SHARES OF “GRANIT” RAISES!?!
p.14 NEW COMPANY FOR FUNDS MANAGEMENT KD FUNDS p.8 SLOVENIAN COMPANY TO OPEN TWO NEW FUNDS
SKOPJE p.8 SC: SWISSLION CANNOT POSSESS ALL SHARES OF AGRO-
p.14 STOPS THE TRADING OF SHARES OF KARPOS-PREDILNICA PLOD
p.14 SHARE BUY-BACKS OF LISTED COMPANIES` SHARES SPIC
UTRINSKI VESNIK p.8 TRADING WITH SHARES GETS CHEAPER
p.11 IS SWISSLION TO REMAIN OWNER OF AGROPLOD FROM p.8 EVN INVESTS 67 MILLION EUROS
RESEN? p.8 VODAFONE COMES IN MACEDONIA
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CONVERSATION ON THE OCCASION...

JOTI POPOVSKI, WINNER OF THE ENERGY GLOBE AWARD

THE MACEDONIAN INVENTIONS –


USEFUL AND COMMERCIAL?
If on EUREKA, already five Macedonians anaerobic stations do not spend electricity, ulty in Kondovo, on which I am grateful even
have won golden medals, this means that do not require maintenance and qualified today for the showed trust. This is a very big
Macedonia has capacity for innovations. personnel, there is no danger of reeking, in- deal for me. Even bigger confession is that
And one has to invest a lot for the innova- sects or infections. These stations are set on this year, when for the first time after 10
tions… we should work on concrete proj- several times smaller space from the con- years, before delegation of Serbian experts
ects that give immediate results, which ventional stations and because they are im- we opened the valve for sediments at the
are useful and can be commercialized… plemented into the ground, they do not dete- station on Kondovo and pure water came
Macedonia is poor, but not miserable riorate the living environment. The purified out.
country for one not to invest in the water and the sediments can be used for irri-
acknowledged inventions… gation of agriculture products or greenery. Besides the many world awards and ac-
And, what is very important, the price of the- knowledgements for your invention, in this coun-
se stations is much lower than on the aerobic try one does not know enough, and it is not used

T
he anaerobic station for purifying utili- and the conventional ones for purifying waste much practically. What is the reason, according
ties and industrial waste water, inven- water. to you for such indifferent relation of the country
tion of the Master of Science Joti towards this exceptional invention?
Popovski is the winner of the prestigious For this invention of yours you have won
Energy Globe reward, Austrian foundation several awards, like the award of the Republic of - There is a scheme in our country – first
that functions under the wings of the United Macedonia – patent of the year in 2001, Golden to get affirmed abroad and them to be ac-
Nations, the World Bank and the European medal with dedication of the 50th Innovation ex- cepted at home. Because no one trusts you.
council for renewable energy. The technolog- hibition, researching new technologies – EUREKA And in other big companies, in big countries
ical invention of Joti Popovski won in the with Brussels the same year, The Medal from the this goes differently. Someone finances for
competition of 853 projects in the area of wa- Government of the Kingdom of Belgium for the these things to be done. Here I will say that
ter conservation, which were submitted by protection of the living environment. Your patent we are poor country in this perspective but
representatives from 109 states. This was has won the certificate from the Check Republic not miserable. I think that if on EUREKA alre-
the reason, two days before the trip to Brus- and it is authorized by the World organization for ady five Macedonian have won golden me-
sels on the award ceremony,(on the 26th of intellectual ownership, with a siege in Geneva. dals this means that Macedonia has capaci-
May this year, in the European parliament), From when did you actually start and how did ty for innovations. And for innovations one
to talk with Popovski about his invention that your work go? has to invest a little bit. One trip in a foreign
represents a revolution in the purifying of country from one clerk from the ministries,
waste water and with that in the ecology in - I am occupied with this issue since costs the same as the expenses of the inno-
general. 1982, when I have constructed the first bio – vator. We can not invest in base or science
filter thanks to Alkaloid that enabled me an projects, to study how the DNA moves, in qu-
What advantages does Your invention of- ecological laboratory to develop this project. anta, to measure, but we have to work on
fer in relation to the current technology in the This first bio – filter manufactured biogas with concrete projects that give immediate re-
area of purifying the waste water, which was the big concentration of methane – 87%. I have sults, which are useful and can be commerci-
reason for you to won this prestigious award? been performing examinations on it in the alized.
period of 1982 – 1986 but I did not have For instance, I, at this moment have one
- With the anaerobic station for purifying enough conditions to construct the station. At filter for removing nitrates from the drinking
utilities and industrial waste water, shortly sa- that time, because I had been working with water. But I have blocked myself financially
id, one saves electricity by using alternative the waste water of Pivara and Alkaloid, I sug- and I can not realize it. I need more sophisti-
methods, which protects the human environ- gested to make a station for these two facto- cated measurement appliance. My garage is
ment. The station purifies the water and pro- ries, but, whether the economic or the legal my laboratory. All the laboratory phases I ha-
tects the surface water and produces biogas conditions were not allowing this. Actually, at ve passed with personal means. But in order
with high concentration of methane – 87% that time on has been thinking very little to go outside, you must be completely sure.
that can be used as bio-fuel. In comparison about the ecology. I had the first opportunity For that, one needs someone else’s help, or
to the conventional purifying stations, the to build the station in 1998 for the Islamic fac- I will wait when I will succeed to collect

The purifying stations – revolution in the purifying the waste water


The inventor, Joti Popovski for two For Petrusevski is also not logical why the gratulated Joti that the solution is excellent,
years now is working jointly with the compa- invention of Popovski is hard to be accepted but there is no contact until today whatsoev-
ny Intermont D.P. from Skopje, which is the in Macedonia, although in the world it is alre- er. We have explained to them that with our
only company in the world that projects and ady accepted and demanded. From the purifying stations the water can directly be
executes the anaerobic purifying stations of example of the collector in Ohrid, the advan- let into the lake.
Popovski. – More than three years I was in a tages of the anaerobic station can be clearly The problem of Proakva is that they
search of a foreign partner in order to con- seen, says Petrusevski. have not paid their electricity bills for two
struct purifying stations, because I see the – We were in Proakva in Ohrid. Their years, and they pay one million euros annu-
future in them. In the invention of Joti, I have pumps, installed in the pre – pump stations ally. And, our stations for Ohrid cost around
discovered a revolutional solution for purify- are constantly malfunctioning and burning five millions of euros. Meaning, in five years
ing the utilities and the industrial waste wa- out. The station is old more than 20 years they will pay the whole investment and they
ter, charged with organic material – says the and it is not profitable to invest in it. After we will not have to pay for million of euros for
director of Intermont, Dragi Petrusevski. presented the invention to them, they con- electricity in the future.
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enough money for such investments in order
to continue with the work. Or I could find
sponsor from abroad. But is there an interest
for such filter? All of the level spot cities, from
Budapest to Paris do not drink tap water be-
cause these nitrates.

One of the very important performances of


the anaerobic station is that the station in rela-
tion to the conventional purifying stations, costs
four times cheaper. Besides that, the country
prefers installment of stations from foreign
manufacturers. Why?

- We still can not determine why this is


the case, what is the problem or the truth,
why we can not work from around here. From
the Ministry of living environment, after the
meeting they have sent us beautiful congrat-
ulations and promise that we will cooperate.
It was all left to that. Here I must say what it
is that poses an obstacle in Macedonia. The
corruption is an obstacle. Why? The margins
with the foreign producers are much bigger been built. Three more stations are going to have managed to come only to Budapest
and being that way, the one buying the sta- be built there on the island of the sheik. And, because they did not get an entrance visa for
tion does not think further – for maintenance, Dubai, at least according to me is one of the Macedonia. So, they have sent in Hungari-
paying electricity. He or she thinks about the biggest construction locations in the world, ans to see and to bring the results from the
margin. This is normal. There are factors that where huge amounts of money are spent. analysis that are being performed in the lab-
share the money and they must think whe- There is also interest from the Chinese that oratories of the former Zelezara. We got an
ther with a certain amount of offer even from India, for 11 stati-
money they will make only ons, but they also have vias prob-
one station. Here is the prob- lems because they have to travel
lem. They should find the all the way to China for them.
most economical technology. From the other hand, our authori-
I will illustrate the condition ties have demanded the Chinese
through two examples. Our and the Indian citizens to have an
offer for the purifying station agreement signed with us in order
of the police academy was fo- to be given the visas. Are we not
ur times cheaper than the of- fighting for foreign investments?
fer from an Austrian company We receive offers from Brazil, Ca-
that got the job. No one is in- nada… We have been called to
terested to at least ask why go in turkey in order to present the
this is like this. Second exam- station. However, we can not think
ple is the municipality of Ae- about much serious approach and
rodrom, for which we made placement for now, because we, I
free project and analysis, so mean my Ecological bureau and
the Municipality can apply Intermont D.P., the company that
with some donor organizati- manufactures and installs the
on. Our investment for Gorno anaerobic stations, do not have
and Dolno Lisice for six thou- the power to advertize ourselves.
sand equivalent citizens was
about 450 thousands of The state should finally meet
euros. From the paper of the this technology and to help us,
municipality we find out that because these purifying stations
the mayor for pre – pump pri- are home made patent. Even the
ce has signed an agreement total raw materials, including the
for nine millions of euros. And paint against corrosion are of
a referendum was planned in Macedonian origin. From the
order to start to take 500 other side, one can not forget that
euros from every family. the first assignment as a state,
which we are going to get after
Your stations are already the admission in EU is to purify
present on three continents, the waste water. Especially the
which real curiosity is the puri- water that pours into the river
fying station installed on the Vardar, because in a way, it goes
Antarctic for the needs of the in the Union. Anyhow, a state pro-
international expedition. Do you gram should be made for this
undertake something and it is problem. As two small companies,
for the placement of your inven- we can not make this kind of pro-
tion abroad? gram – it should be made on the
basis of the anaerobic purifying
- Several days ago I co- stations for utilities and industrial
me from Dubai where the se- waste water.
cond station has already V.M.
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INTERVIEW: KOCE PETROV, OWNER OF DUNA COMPUTERS – SKOPJE

WITH THE SOFTWARE FOR MARKET


ANALYSIS – WE CONQUER NEW MARKETS
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is software for market analysis, sales analysis tools. There is nothing like it on
the market. Of course, lots of other CRM solutions which satisfy certain needs can be found, but we succeeded in focusing
on something that cannot be found. DUNA already has its software which it sold in Serbia, Kosovo, in Bosnia, as well as in
Azerbaijan. Next to come is Armenia, afterwards Bulgaria, then Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan…which means we are conquering
new markets.

actually is abbreviation of it is not enough only to be a representative,


the Institute for Information to import them and to sell their technological
Research. This project has achievements. Obtaining the agreement was
few dimensions: develop- simply the easiest thing. Certain standards
ment of prepared IT-pack- should have been respected, such as the
ages, something that every- Apple Store we opened in the City Shopping
one can buy from a shelf Center – in a big store, to put very few things.
and use it without additional Usually in our country, in a small store you
supports and frustrations put everything. But when it comes to Apple
such as: where is the pro- they have quite different philosophy. It is like
grammer, etc. The second a piece of art, and the piece of art does not
thing is to help with the tolerate uploading, it needs space to breathe,
development in that region. the man should be able to look from all
Besides Mile, I come from sides…
the region as well, so we
decided to enable the young *What is your strongest sector at the
people from this town to moment? Why brings you most profit?
progress in the IT. Duna
employs programmers from - Well, I can say we are the strongest at
different towns and some of what we started. At the moment we have a
them are travelling every game of luck at Duna Computers, which
day, some of them live here, means that everyone who rents a copier on
and give away great part of leasing becomes participant in a game of
their salary for rent in Skop- luck for a vehicle type Ford Fiesta. We really
je. This way, locally things have lots of renters here. Starting from
are much simpler. And third- Telekom, T-mobile, to companies such as
ly, after the faculty in Stip Alkaloid, etc…, lots of clients, from small to
was opened, we agreed on big ones. We see the purchasers as benefici-
cooperation with the Faculty aries of services. The IT sector is a service,
of Electrical Engineering, so not a product. All the major companies are
we plan on combining all of somewhat oriented towards software, and
that and now that all the leave the hardware to the Chinese and
dices are at one place, the Koreans, where the production is cheap. We
*The Institute for Information Research was mosaic gave even more beautiful image – follow that trend, as a matter of fact that was
opened in Stip, last week. Duna Computers “Three I”. our primary idea, to sell services, and not
together with Makpromet appeared as founder. That is why we decided to invest in it. boxes…
Who came with the idea, did Duna Computers One of the things will be development of the
have a direct need of establishing this kind of Apple solutions, which of course dovetails *Does it mean that the Apple products are
Institute in Macedonia? directly in our business. selling good in Macedonia? With the dynamics
you projected?
- Exactly. We felt the need of such *When it comes to Duna Computers the first
Institute for a long time. I consider that open- association is the showroom in the City - Well, more and more. Even more than
ing such institution which will provide devel- Shopping Center and one fabulous HD Cinema the dynamics we projected. We succeeded
opment of IT products, IT solutions, IT serv- Display from Apple. Whose was the idea for intro- to sell them on retail, respectively home
ices is more than necessary. The idea how- ducing the Apple products in Macedonia? based; we already managed to sell it to com-
ever began absolutely unexpectedly. On panies, as a complete IT solution. More and
October 11, the Yachtsmen Association of - Technically, we try to introduce new more often the companies replace the old I-
Macedonia, Pampur, organized Regatta in ideas which at the beginning, in our country Mac computers, they put wireless infrastruc-
Croatia. By chance, the Director of seem impossible to be done. It was the case ture of Macintosh, and they buy Apple
Makpromet from Stip, Mile Atanasov was with the laser printers which worked 45 servers… So, we have companies which are
there as well, and during all that socializing, pages in a minute. Everybody said that such exclusively oriented to the Macintosh opera-
he asked me to come in his company and thing does not exist. The same happens now. tive systems.
scan his IT infrastructure. That is when the I believed that the mobile devices can be
idea of doing something together was creat- used even by a collector (it is now used in the *Why do not we make it clear for the readers,
ed. PE Water Economy) unlike the others, who what is actually the difference between the HP
The project “Three I” is also a joint prod- did not believe in that. The apple products operative system and the Linux, respectively
uct of Duna Computers and Makpromet, and attracted us ten years ago, but in my opinion working with Macintosh?
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- Apple is an excellent example for that. and in 2004 we have introduced ISO 14001 LAND POLICY IN MARKET AND
They started in the eighties of the last centu- – Environmental standard. Lots of people CONSUMERS’ INTEREST
ry by producing computer in a garage and said why do you need, you do not pollute.

COMPETITION
after a short period of time they could not sat- But I say we do. The first thing we did was to
isfy the demand. Afterwards they invented replace the old vehicles with new mopeds.
the first graphic interface, and afterwards On one side it gave us greater mobility, and
they introduced fire-wire. I want to say they
were the first ones to commercialize. Today,
on the other side the emission of gases
released by the previous vehicles is lowered. – CHALLENGE
the new MacBook Air has no CD ROM. It
means that in five years even a CD would not
So such a small segment, but when I saw
how much our computer repair technicians FOR FAMILY
FARMERS
exist. It will simply be replaced with flash move through Skopje, I realized that it was
drives, just as it was the case with the floppy not so small. When all the companies would
discs. “Apple” are leaders when it comes to do the same, we would have fresh air in
that. I believe that even the latest things in Skopje.
the I Phone, such as multi-touch screen; will Agricultural stimulations allocated for this year
become standard at every phone in a short *What are the beginnings and the ascent of and the announced support will make
time, because it offers certain benefits to the Duna Computers? Macedonian farmer competitive on the domes-
users which are already proven. tic and European markets within the next four
Last year, we organized mini fair for the - Duna computers is founded in 1994 by years
Apple products and during it I made larger Aleksandar Pajkovski and me. When we
analysis regarding its philosophy. graduated on the Faculty of Electrical En- The promotion of agricultural competi-
For example in the Hollywood industry, gineering, the IT business in Macedonia just tiveness in order to face the global chal-
they say “bad guys use Windows, good guys started development and we decided to sell lenges was subject of the International
use Apple”. For example in “24” the series, computers and printers. We immediately saw Conference that took place in Skopje last
the good ones CTU, use Apple, and the bad that there are other things in the IT sector week and was organized by the Farmers’
one use Windows. Not by chance, it repre- such as software development, development Federation of the Republic of Macedonia
sents a symbol of originality. of mobile and printer solutions, in other (FFRM). The EU Ambassador to Macedo-
words something that the other companies at nia, Mr. Erwin Fouere, also had his address
*Do you have strategy about where would that time did not offer. in presence of representatives of the agri-
you develop in the future? Do you consider entry We realized the first major deals by print- cultural sector from almost all countries in
on the Stock Exchange eventually? ing, like for example during the introduction the Region. Greeting the idea for holding the
of the first election identity cards in Conference, he conveyed part of the experi-
- We have discussed that lots of times, Macedonia. All of those thousand of identity ences of his native Ireland, one of the lead-
but that seeks for a more serious approach, cards should have printed in 14 days, with a ing European countries regarding growing
having in mind that the Stock Exchange is a delivery deadline of 15 days. We succeeded economies in the last decade and presented
serious thing. I honestly think that today no in providing machines which print 45 pages his position on the situation with the agricul-
one from the IT sector can complain on not in a minute, something that at that point was tural sector in Macedonia.
having job. Duna already has its software unimaginable, seeing that the fastest printer - In Ireland the situation has changed
which it sold in Serbia, Kosovo, in Bosnia, as was four pages in a minute. Somehow we drastically. It is a more industrial country
well as in Azerbaijan. Next to come is Arme- got specialized in that field of printing and now, however, agricultural traditions in cer-
nia, afterwards Bulgaria, then Kazakhstan, production of documents, as well as in the tain fields still exist, especially in sheep
Kirghizstan…which means we are conquer- mobile solution at the same time. We have breading. This is something we also want to
ing new markets. longtime experience in this field, which is preserve in countries like Macedonia due to
why our beneficiaries are one of leading the large challenges it is going to face when
*What in fact are you selling? What kind of companies in Macedonia. joining EU. If this begins early, the difficul-
software is it about? ties that countries like mine had faced will
*Why do not we make a parallel, the results probably be avoided. Therefore, I greet this
- Customer Relationship Management then and the results 14 years later? initiative by FFRM on gathering experts
(CRM) is software for market analysis, sales from the region and some European coun-
analysis tools. There is nothing like it on the - Well, there is a lot of difference. Then, a tries such as Sweden, who are present here
market. Of course, lots of other CRM solu- smaller company, lower turnover, lot less to exchange experiences. The common
tions which satisfy certain needs can be expenses. Even today when we have meet- land policy of EU, which was developed by
found, but we succeeded in focusing on ings, we say that at that time we knew every- its first six member countries, is essential for
something that cannot be found. thing, whereas now everything is different. the competitiveness of European agriculture
Certain companies loved it and accepted More employees, we do not have insight at and agricultural sector as a whole, which
it. everything, everyone has certain responsibil- includes 90 million posts, the Ambassador
ities. Also at that time the competition was Fouere emphasized.
*What are the Human Resources Duna Com- smaller, and the business was better, the out- In his exhaustive speech on this subject
puters has on disposal? come was higher. Today is much more diffi- he indicated that in Western European
cult, because the changes in the technology countries subsidizing the agriculture in order
- The portfolio of Duna Computers is go very fast. Then we had a situation, one to secure the food supply was past and now
wide: from production of software, offering operating system for mobile computers to the EU policy was focused on food manu-
software services, service, selling computers last for seven, eight years. Today, Windows facturers, from cereals to gardening and
and printers, renting printers and copiers, Mobile, Windows C, every half a year some- fruit-growing, in order to be able to stand on
selling fiscal cash-registers. I always find out thing new appears and you should adjust it. their own feet and be a competition both to
about the number of employees when we All of this means daily monitoring of the new European and world market.
have ISO 9001 recertification, and which is flows, because if it all remains on what you - The latest land policy development is
conducted once a year. The number of con- have then you are facing the end, especially designed to adjust (based on the experi-
stantly employed is somewhere from 40 to in the IT sector. ence from 2003 reforms) and be convinced
50. There is no stopping here. On the other that the policy can handle the modern chal-
side, it is a positive feedback, which makes lenges such as climate changes. European
*So, you have introduced ISO certification… you to invest even more, to learn and you Commission is completely devoted to the
simply do not when it ends.
- In 2001 we have introduced ISO 2001, K.S. continues on page 12
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continues from page 11 and methodology. Its development as of the more livestock. In this sector yields are also
year 2000 to date can be manifested through very low in comparison to yields in developed
issue on agricultural competitiveness. the changes in the gross value of production, countries. Stockbreeding depends a lot on
However, to be competitive does not mean to which constantly increases. Moreover, char- the fodder import, mainly granular, which
have lower price, but a better quality, to pro- acteristic of the Macedonian agricultural sec- means that potentials in this sector are limit-
duce, for example, wine, cheese, and meat tor is that the ratio between vegetable pro- ed, especially those that are dependant on
that the consumers worldwide demand. For duction and stockbreeding production is concentrated provender both in pig breeding
those who compete for high quality products unfavorable. It indicates that it is not on the and poultry.
it is important to have access to labeling and level of high-developed countries yet, and Macedonian agriculture competition is at
geographic origin system and quality recog- that the vegetable production makes three a low level, from many reasons, among
nition. The rural development policy is also quarters of the total production, Mr. which is the small structure of family agricul-
an essential element, which means not only Dimitrievski pointed out. ture economies in whose possession is most
improvement of products’ quality but also We do not use the production capacities of the capacities. Low yields lead to
improvement of the life quality in rural areas. enough and it is a problem Macedonia has increased production expenses, i.e. high
Manufacturers must adjust to new political been facing since its independence to date. price that prevents the market competitive-
and economic circumstances and, as Mace- Additionally, in the period from the year 2000 ness. They are worked on, but have not been
donia being a candidate country, there are to 2007, a reduction of agricultural areas has reached yet.
many things that should be done in order to been detected. About ten years ago, agricul- The processing industry as part of the
prepare the country to adjust to EU member- tural arable areas spread on approximately food production chain “from field to table” has
ship criteria. Rural municipalities here, as in 660 000 hectares, while today we have a its flaws, and no cooperative relations have
Ireland before, suffer form a high percentage decrease for over 100 000 hectares. been established since nobody has invested
of immigration and deserted houses. There Macedonian agriculture evolves in two in it for many years.
are small sheep breeding farms that cannot main agricultural structures – agricultural Regarding the impact of the land policy
endure due to low prices of their over competitiveness, one can say
products. For example, they get only that for a longer period of time the
20 denars for a kilogram of wool on treatment of the country and the land
the market. A lot should be invested policy was inadequate, i.e. there was
in order to preserve the tradition on a low level of budget support. The
a local level, for instance sheep main land policy consisted predomi-
breeding and sheep products. It is nantly of relatively higher protection
very important agricultural communi- policies on the market, but as
ty to survive, as well as to synchro- Macedonia is becoming World Trade
nize production and market demand Organization member, the protection
and develop placement and market- is diminishing and more adequate
ing. We are already providing funds policy and major budget support is
for rural development through vari- required in order to provide the com-
ous financial instruments and the petitiveness of agricultural products.
projected for development in the For many years, investment poli-
period between 2007 and 2009 cy was one of the reasons that the
amounts to 90 million euros. This Macedonian agriculture as low-accu-
shows the enormous potential in this mulative was unable to improve its
and closely-related fields like agro capacities and modernize means of
tourism, which was very successful in Slo- enterprises, companies that emerged from production, which led to low productiveness.
venia, where many agricultural farms devel- former agro-plants and some new ones, Furthermore, one should work intensively on
oped their homes by the aid of the EU pre- which are market-oriented and where 20% of the market infrastructure and strengthening
accession funds, Mr. Fouere explained. the agricultural land is located, and on the market institutions. Of course, not all
As a closing statement Mr. Fouere also other hand, those that are important for pre- Macedonian agriculture is uncompetitive.
indicated the key role of the Federation in serving the traditions – family economies, an There are certain competitive sectors, princi-
increasing the agricultural competitiveness, area where the Federation operates. They pally gardening, viticulture and sheep breed-
which has the leading role in all sector inter- cultivate approximately 80 percents of the ing, which have a competitive power on the
ventions, whilst the task of authorities being agricultural small-sized and fragmental market mostly because of the low labor price
the development of policies that correspond areas, and larger attention should be paid to and low production expenses. Other reasons
to market and consumers. The progress of this agricultural structure in future. According are prices, which were relatively stabile until
agricultural competitiveness is a large chal- to inventory in 2007, 193,000 family agricul- 2006, excluding 2005 when there was signif-
lenge and the ways to achieve that are not tural economies cultivated around 260 000 icant price reduction due to the admission of
easy at all, but I have no doubts that hectares. However, in average it is a matter Macedonia in the WTO. However, in 2007
Macedonia and the agricultural sector will of a very small structure, i.e. very small farms the prices of barley, sunflower, etc. were
respond to that challenge, Mr. Fouere said at with less then one and a half hectare of land increased. It led to positive influences
the end of his speech. with parcels. One agricultural family has regarding cereals, and negative influences in
At the Conference, Mr. Dragi Dimitri- approximately eight to 10 parcels, where the field of stockbreeding concerning milk
evski, Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture modern mechanization cannot be used. The and meat production.
and Food in Skopje, also had his presenta- economy there cannot leave its mark and In 2006, we had only 18 million euros
tion on the situation with the Macedonian that is the field that should be worked on in deficit, but, yet, in 2007 the deficit increased
agriculture, as well as on the FFRM role. future in order to surmount the problem. drastically to 27 million euros due to the
- Macedonian agriculture is a significant Production trends in Macedonian agricul- already familiar reasons. This concerned the
economic sector, taking the third place ture are relatively stabile as of 2000 to date, products that are most important for con-
regarding Gross Domestic Product with but yields are low, particularly in production sumers and nutrition strategy for population –
approximately 12%. For a long time now, of crops and industrial cultures. Regarding the milk, which we have been importing con-
Macedonian agriculture has been a sector stockbreeding production, the number of cat- tinuously from 2000 to 2006, as well as meat,
that supports the entire economy and to tle has dropped and especially devastating is sugar, sunflower and other products. There is
which belongs around 20% of the labor pur- the situation with the sheep breeding com- a positive balance of payments solely regard-
suant to the International Labor Organization pared to the past, when there was four times ing sheep and goat products.
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1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS
The scandal in Makedonski Telekom, in which Meskov, director of Swisslion, explains adding tics in Stip was met with big interest by the print
6.7 million Euros were stolen in two years, is top that if there was any irregularity, the state or SC media. Director of Makpromet, Mile Atanasov
news in all today’s papers. According to the official were to react one and half year ago, when the ag- and Koce Petrov from Duna computers, point out
announcement from the majority owner, in the pe- reement was concluded. SC blocked company`s that the Institute’s main goal was to promote and
riod from 2004 to 2006 this sum has illegally been stocks on Public Attorney`s Office demand which stimulate the development of this region through
“poured out” from Hungarian company Magyar Te- sues Swisslion for establishing of invalidity of the opening new jobs which will stop the young intel-
lekom on consulting services. In the report pre- concluded agreement with the Ministry of Econo- lectuals to leave their birth place and move to the
pared by the American auditing house White and my for sell of 5,339 shares of Agroplod AD Resen. capital as the most developed business center in
Case it stands that there are evidence for illegal The print media also convey the assessment the country. The two companies will also give ten
actions in forming and implementing six contracts of Canadian businessmen that Macedonia was scholarships to young students, and within their
on certain services, made with consulting house ideal place for beef production, given on the meet- projects in information researches they will coope-
from Cyprus. As the papers report, Makedonski ing of Agriculture Minister Aco Spasenoski with rate with the new university Goce Delcev from
Telekom gives no comment to this information, the joint parliamentary business delegation from Stip.
because Magyar Telekom conducts the investiga- Canada. On the meeting also discussed had been There will be electricity despite the overhauls,
tion. Financial scandal came out at the end of the possible placement of Macedonian products is the title of the text in Utrinski vesnik, where one
2005, after the embezzlement in Montenegro Te- on the Canadian market, especially of garden pro- can read about the electro-energetic condition in
lekom, which is also in ownership of the Hungari- ducts and vine which is already present on this the country. As ELEM claims, there will be enough
an company, because of what there was internal market, but in small amounts. power for the next months and there is no need
investigation conducted there. The dividend pay- It is expected there be placement of Macedo- for import, despite that the regular annual repairs
ment for 2005 was late because of the investigati- nian Ajvar and Lutenica on the north-American in REK Bitola are underway, and TEC Oslomej will
on in Macedonia. Since it is listed on New York market soon, since American distributers have not operate for another month, also because of re-
stock market, Magyar Telekom, mother-company shown big interest for them on the Global Food pair. The measures taken are in accordance with
of Makedonski Telekom, was punished by the and Style Fair that takes place in Chicago. There- he energy balance for this year, and the three
American, Hungarian and Macedonian financial fore, the AgBiz program of the American agency blocks of Bitola thermal power station will be fixed
authorities for not submitting annual financial re- for international development (USAID) will help by the middle of October, actually by the beginn-
port on time. domestic companies to arrange cooperation with ing of the heating season, when they will be com-
Swisslion d.o.o. Skopje claims that the partners from USA, Dnevnik reports. Macedonian pletely ready to meet the needs of the electro-
Securities Commission has no legal right to ban companies Altra, Universal promet, Bonum, Trgo- energetic system. Although the next months REK
the company to posses its stocks in Agroplod Re- produkt, Lars and Intermak, which export 80 to 95 Bitola will operate with two blocks, the power pro-
sen, today’s Vest informs. - “Our stocks are block- percent of their production, have participated on duction will fully cover the domestic needs.
ed illegally. We bought shares of Agroplod on pub- the Fair.
lic call and they were paid across MSE - Klime The opening of the first Institute for Informa-

2. TOP NEWS - IMPORTANCE BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS


1. STOLEN 6.7 MILLION EUROS FROM MACEDONIAN TELECOM (*****)
2. MACEDONIA IS IDEAL LOCATION FOR PRODUCTION OF BEEF (**)

DNEVNIK p.7 WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT THE POSITION OF GREECE IN


p.9 STOLEN 6.7 MILLION EUROS FROM MACEDONIAN TELE- NATO
COM p.7 BARREL OF OIL – 130 DOLLARS
p.11 AMERICANS WANT MACEDONIAN AJVAR VREME
p.11 CANADIAN WANTS TO RAISE CATTLE IN MACEDONIA p.1 EVERYONE WASHES HANDS FROM THE POISONOUS OIL
BIZNIS p.5 FOREIGNERS INTERESTED IN BEEF
p.3 ABOUT 6.7 MILLION EUROS IN A HOLE p.5 HERZEGOVINA LIES ON OIL FIELDS
p.3 MACEDONIA IS IDEAL LOCATION FOR PRODUCTION OF p.5 LUKOIL TO INVEST 15 MILLION EUROS IN MONTENEGRO
BEEF p.5 MACEDONIAN TELECOM WAS WORKING ILLEGALLY
p.3 ABOUT 1,260 MWH OF ELECTRICITY ON SALE p.5 THE CRAFTSMEN WASH THEIR HANDS FROM THE OIL
p.13 MBI-10 SLIDES 2.4 INDEX POINTS VEST
p.13 TRADING VALUE – 21.5 MILLION DENARS p.7 TELECOM HAS SPENT 6.7 MILLIONS OF EUROS, ILLEGALLY
p.13 MBI REPORT ON 21.05.2008 p.8 SWISSLION: OUR STOCKS IN AGROPLOD ARE BLOCKED
p.14 TOPLIFIKACIJA WITH MKD 15.2 MILLION OF LOSSES ILLEGALLY
p.14 BETON TO ALLOCATE 735,672 DENARS DIVIDEND FOR PDI p.8 FIRST IT INSTITUTE OPENED
p.15 SHARE BUY-BACK NOVA MAKEDONIJA
p.15 NON-TRADE TRANSFERS p.1 TWO MILLION EUROS DAMAGE FOR MACEDONIAN RAIL-
p.16 THE OIL HAS REACHED ALMOST 130 DOLLARS PER BAR- WAYS
REL p.2 TWO MILLION EUROS DAMAGE FOR MACEDONIAN RAIL-
UTRINSKI VESNIK WAYS
p.10 MACEDONIAN TELECOM EMBEZZLED 6.7 MILLION EUROS p.8 BIT BY BIT ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE
IN 2005 p.8 SHARES OF GRANIT MARK HIGHEST TURNOVER, THIRD
p.10 THERE WILL BE POWER DESPITE THE OVERHAULS DAY IN A ROW
p.12 THE OIL REACHED 130 DOLLARS PER BARREL, WILL IT p.8 OIL NEAR $130 A BARREL
REACH 200? p.8 €6.7 MILLION EMBEZZLEMENT IN MACEDONIAN MAGYAR
VECER TELEKOM
p.6 NEW INSTITUTE FOR IT RESEARCHES TO BE OPENED SPIC
p.6 THE AGRIBUSINESS AND INFORMATICS IN THE FOCUS OF p.10 MAGYAR TELEKOM WITH EVIDENCE FOR EMBEZZLE-
INVESTORS MENTS IN MACEDONIA
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23.05.2008 FRIDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS

The oil continues to break records. Today`s which is 3,8 per cent more compared with last For the financial malversations in Makedonski
news¬pa¬pers report the news for the new record year, reported today`s Utrinski vesnik. telekom, when 6, 7 million euro were defalcated,
of 135 dollars a barrel. The price rise came after The Government establishes a company for the Government will indict a procedure for
the American Government announced that the wholesale trade of fruit and vegetables, Agriland, amends. According to law experts, whose opin-
state raw oil reserves reduced. The US De- which together with the Israeli firm Soli Group will ions are reported by Nova Makedonija, the
partment of energy suddenly announced in public establish joint stock company that will export Government that is owner of share capital in the
that the raw oil reserves reduced for 5, 4 million Macedonian agricultural products on the markets company has a legitimate right to claim responsi-
barrels in a week. From the beginning of this year, abroad. bility and amends for financial malversations. –
the oil price has raised by about 34 per cent. Agriland is a joint stock company where the We will absolutely indict procedure for amends.
Although Macedonia is completely dependent only owner is the Macedonian Government, which We follow the findings of the inspection. After the
of oil derivatives import in the last months, and invested 1, 5 million denars to establish it. As final findings, a procedure will follow - says Ivica
there is rise of fuel prices every 15 days, the Dnevnik informs, the Macedonian - Israeli Com- Bocevski, spokesman of the Government.
Government does not consider undertaking any pany is expected to start operating in the beginn- Vecher reports the arrest of Pande Lazarov,
measures. According to the spokesman Ivica ing of next month. In the company, the Govern- an ex-director of Elektrostopanstvo Makedonija.
Bocevski, the Government follows the world oil ment will own 49 per cent of the capital, and the Namely, Lazarov, who fired about 1000 workers
prices and if they it necessary to intervene, they remaining 51 per cent will be owned by the Israeli before the privatization of ESM, yesterday was
will. Under the influence of the world Stock Ex- firm. detained by the police, suspect for money launde-
changes, the Energy Regulatory Commission ra- The American railway giant Wabtech is a new ring and power abuse. He is suspect by the
ised the selling fuel prices in the last ten days. If owner of the Macedonian company MZT Hepos. police, according to the findings of the investiga-
the price rise tendency on the stock exchanges The American company announced that it buys tion, that as a director of ESM in the period of
continues, it is inevitable to have new rise of oil the Italian group for railway stopping systems pro- 1996 to 1998, he took 300 000 dollars and 190
derivatives prices in Macedonia, was published in duction, Polispa, for 53 million euro. The man- 000 German marks, informed from the Ministry of
Nova Makedonija. agers of Wabtech, a company that offers different internal affairs.
In accordance with the oil price rise, the food products, technologies and services on the global On Tuesday on the money market was real-
price in the world also raised. The prices of the market, state that by purchased Polispa, they will ized a total profit of 12.153.353, 56 denars, and
food stuffs will remain high in 2008 and the hunger intensify their strategic presence on the market 93 transactions were realized of 66 transactions,
problem can deepen despite the record food pro- and will raise the profit on the international mar- while the rest of 3.380.422 denars were realized
duction this year, announced the United Nations ket. MZT Hepos, a company that produces sys- on the regular market of 27 transactions. The only
Food and Agriculture Organization. According to tems for stopping in the railway transport, is a share that had profit of over one million denars-
the last anticipations of FAO, the world production leader in on the Macedonian market for the export third day in a row- was the share of Macedonian
of grains will reach 2, 2 billion tones in 2008, toward China. Stock Exchange.

2. TOP NEWS - IMPORTANCE BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS


1. BREAD – FIRST VICTIM OF THE RAGING OIL PRICE (*****)
2. PANDE LAZAROV, THE FORMER FIRST MAN OF ESM IS DETAINED (****)

DNEVNIK VECER
p.1 EVERY NIGHT WE GIVE OUR NEIGHBORS POWER FOR p.1 PANDE LAZAROV, THE FORMER FIRST MAN OF ESM IS
FREE DETAINED
p.9 WE GIVE OUR NEIGHBORS ELECTRICITY FOR FREE p.3 PANDE LAZAROV, THE FORMER FIRST MAN OF ESM IS
p.11 THE GOVERNMENT CREATES COMPANY FOR EXPORT OF DETAINED
FARMING PRODUCTS p.7 ELECTRICITY DISCONNECTION CONTINUES
p.7 RAILWAY CONNECTION WITH BULGARIA AND ALBANIA IS
BIZNIS NECESSARY
p.1 BONDS – LIFE BELT FOR INVESTORS
p.1 PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTIONS UP BY 6.5% VREME
p.3 PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTIONS UP BY 6.5% p.1 LAZAROV WAS STEALING FROM ESM
p.3 STATE PROPERTY BEING SQUANDERED BUT NOBODY p.3 PANDE LAZAROV APPREHENDED
TAKES ACTION p.6 MORE THAN 135 DOLLARS FOR ONE BARREL OF OIL
p.4 BREAD TO BE KNEADED WITH DOMESTIC WHEAT p.6 OIL FOOD YET TO BE ANALYZED
p.4 BONDS – LIFE BELT FOR INVESTORS p.6 GASIFICATION OF STRUMICA IN THREE YEARS
p.7 CRIMINAL CHARGE FOR PANDE LAZAROV
p.14 MBI 22.05.2008 VEST
p.14 8.7 MILLION DENARS REALIZED ON THE OFFICIAL MARKET p.14 THE OIL FOR OVER 135 DOLLARS
p.14 MBI-10 INCREASED BY 6.21 INDEX POINTS
p.15 NON - TRADING TRANSFERS OF SHARES NOVA MAKEDONIJA
p.16 OIL PRICE REACHED 135 DOLLARS PER BARREL p.4 PANDE LAZAROV DETAINED OVER CORRUPTION
p.8 THE SHARE ON THE MACEDONIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
UTRINSKI VESNIK WOKE UP THE THREE YEAR`S SLEEP
p.1 BREAD – FIRST VICTIM OF THE RAGING OIL PRICE p.8 GOVERNMENT TO CLAIM DAMAGES FOR TELECOM EMBEZ-
p.3 BREAD – FIRST VICTIM OF THE RAGING OIL PRICE ZLEMENTS
p.10 THE FOOD PRICES TO INCREASE p.8 OIL REACHED 135 DOLLARS PER BARREL
p.10 CONSORTIUM TOOK OVER PERUTNINA FROM PTUJ p.8 AMERICAN GIANT WABTEC TAKES OVER MZT HEPOS”
p.11 THE BANKS ARE GENEROUSLY GIVING CREDITS, UNTIL
WHEN? SPIC
p.11 HERZEGOVINA HAS OIL AS MUCH AS SAUDI ARABIA p.1 FORMER ESM DIRECTOR PANDE LAZAROV ARRESTED
p.6 FORMER ESM DIRECTOR PANDE LAZAROV ARRESTED
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24.05.2008 SATURDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS

The settlement of another foreign investor in Makedonija, which carries Eurostat data. Within cent reduction of the night production capacity,
Macedonia is the top news in Saturday`s newspa- the past ten years, in contrast with the European and should there is any surplus, the electricity is
pers. All editions carry the story about Iskra, one average, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per sent in the system. It is registered as compensa-
of the largest Slovene companies in the electron- capita in Macedonia went up for only 2 percent. tion after a takeover by the neighboring countries.
ic industry, which is to build factory for parts in the Compared with the other countries, Macedonia is Whoever takes the electricity should return it but
free trade zone Bunardzik. The memo on under- in the bottom of the list according to this econom- in the same period of the day. Such thing is unfa-
standing was signed by PM Nikola Gruevski and ic indicator. Furthermore, there is another interest- vorable for us since we already have excess of
Dusan Sesok, Iskra`s General Director. According ing comparison with Romania, which was less electricity during nighttime.
to the announcements, the construction of the fac- developed in Macedonia in 1999, but gained quick With credit to certain placement of agricultur-
tory will start no later than January the following growth and marked 40 percent GDP per capita, al products, reads the article headline in Vreme,
year with plans for employing around 500 people which is over 14 percent increase. informing that the purchasers of grapes, crops or
within a period from 3 to 5 years after the con- Although the fuel prices are setting new gardening products can use credits with 5 percent
struction. records and have gone up for 30 percent since interest rate. We have allocated 8 million euros.
Utrinski Vesnik announces the formation of a the beginning of the year, the citizens mark incre- This money can be used for primary production
governmental company for trade with vegetables, asing consumption of derivatives. Due to this, the with 4 percent and for the purchasers with 5 per-
which is to be direct competition to the private state is collecting more money in the budget for cent interest rate. Half of this amount has been
sector in the trade with agricultural products. In excises and VAT for the petrol. According to the used to date, which indicates there is a tremen-
the Israeli - Macedonian company - Agriland, data from the Public Revenue Office carried by dous interest both among the farmers and the
which has 1.5 million denars startup capital, the the print media, the opening three months of this companies, highlighted Zivko Jankulovski, De-
Macedonian Government owns 51 percent of the year collected 1.5 billion denars (26 million euros) puty Prime Minister for Agriculture.
shares and 49% go to the Israeli capital. There on this basis, which is more than the same period All weekend editions of the print media
are forecasts that this form of sale will make good in 2006, when the oil price started climbing up. marked the promotion of Skopsko Silver Moon,
marketing promotion of the Macedonian agricul- The surplus of electricity in the energy sys- the new beer that the Skopje Brewery started dis-
tural products, as the gardening products, then tem, which is generated during the night, is being tributing across the catering objects in the country.
milk and dairies, as well as processed agricultural for sale for almost all of the time. Only 2,163 Officials from the company state that the beer is a
products for the purpose of organized promotion megawatts from the offered 11,837 megawatt-ho- complete innovation of their experts and a result
on the fastidious external market. urs were sold on the previous three auctions. Ac- of extensive research over the needs, desires and
There is a concerning statistic showing that cording to the explanation of MEPSO`s spokes- expectations of the home consumers, especially
Macedonia has barely one third from the person, Nikola Stojanov, the working regime of of the younger generation.
European GDP pert capita, informs Nova the thermal power plant REK Bitola allows 20 per-

2. TOP NEWS - IMPORTANCE BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS

1. ISKRA FROM SLOVENIA TO BUILD FACTORY IN BUNARGIK (*****)


2. MACEDONIA DOES NOT HAVE EVEN ONE THIRD OF THE EUROPEAN GDP PER CAPITA (*)

DNEVNIK p.3 SKOPSKO SILVER MOON, A BRAND FOR THE YOUNG GEN-
p.1 THE ELECTRICITY IS NOT FREE ERATION
p.1 ALTHOUGH EXPENSIVE, PETROL SELLS LIKE HOT CAKES p.7 ISKRA TO BUILD A FACTORY
p.9 МBI 23.05.2008 VREME
p.9 SLIGHT INTEREST FOR THE NIGHT SURPLUSES p.7 ISKRA WILL BUILD IN BUNARGIK
p.9 THE ELECTRICITY IS NOT FOR FREE p.7 CREDIT PROVIDES POSITIVE PURCHASE OF AGRICULTUR-
p.9 ISKRA WILL BUILD FACTORY IN BUNARGIK AL PRODUCTS
p.9 ALTHOUGH EXPENSIVE, PETROL SELLS LIKE HOT CAKES NOVA MAKEDONIJA
p.11 PROMOTION OF THE NEW BEER SKOPSKO SILVER MOON p.8 GRANIT’S HARES TRADED IN THREE SECONDS IN AMOUNT
UTRINSKI VESNIK OF 14 MILLION DENARS
p.9 МBI 23.05.2008 p.8 MACEDONIA DOES NOT HAVE EVEN ONE THIRD OF THE
p.9 BREWERY – SKOPJE WITH NEW SILVER MOON BEER EUROPEAN GDP PER CAPITA
p.9 THE GOVERNMENTAL COMPANY FOR TRADE IN VEG- p.8 NO LORRIES COLUMNS AT BOGORODICA
ETABLE TO START ITS WORK BEFORE THE ELECTIONS p.8 SLOVENIAN ISKRA WILL BUILD FACTORY IN BUNARGIK
VECER p.8 THE OIL PRICE WILL CONTINUE TO RISE
p.1 ISKRA FROM SLOVENIA TO BUILD FACTORY IN BUNARGIK
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Date 26.05.2008

19.05.-24.05.2008 MONDAY-SATURDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW IN THE WEEKLY MAGAZINES
GLOBUS THE FIRST QUARTER
ZK Pelagonija ended the first quarter of this year with loss of 72 thou-
c.11 ALKALOID SATISFIED FROM THE JUDGMENT FOR THE CAF- sand euros or 4.42 million denars. In the same period last year the company
FEINE realized profit of 1.75 million euros or 107.7 million denars, indicate the quar-
The eminent company Alkaloid in the future will not be subject to abuse, ter financial report of ZK Pelagonija
especially with the caffeine imitation. This has been said by the first man of p.44 BLOCKED SHARES OF SWISSLION IN AGROPLOD
the company, Zivko Mukaetov, on the two day conference that was held p.46 ERSTE BANK ENTERS IN INVEST BANK
together with several faculties from Skopje. Invest Bank announced that it is in serious negotiations with the Austrian
C.36 ST. GRUJO IS NOT KILLING THE INFLATION Steiermarkische bank und Sparkassen AG, and very soon they will be the
Last year we were shaking if the price reached 100 dollars per barrel, new owners of Invest Bank.
and now it is 130 dollars, with a tendency for year and a half to reach 200 p.47 NEW BRANCH OFFICE OF OHRIDSKA BANKA, KUMANOVO
dollars! Are we not seeing the “bear” before our door or as a state we are just Ohridska banka, a member of Societe Generale Group has opened
joyful on the record – breaking contributions from the taxes foe every liter on branch office in Kumanovo, enabling greater services` accessibility drawing
the gas stations. nearer to clients.
p.47 KOMERCIJALNA BANKA INSTALLED THE FIRST DRIVE UP
KAPITAL ATM IN MACEDONIA
Komercijlna Banka placed its 100 ATM and the first Drive Up ATM at the
p.8 DELTA BROKER NEW BROKERAGE COMPANY Makpetrol`s gas station located near Vodno - Tavtalidze
Delta broker is the name of the new brokerage company founded last p.47 Uni Bank records revenue growth of 65 %
week in Skopje. The 25th brokerage company in Macedonia is established Uni Bank in the first three months this year realized total bank revenues
with capital of 75 thousands euros. (interests, commissions, and exchange rate differentiates) of 309.5 million
p.10 THE PATENT IS THE KEY OF SUCCESSFUL PHARMACEUTI- denars, which represents an increase of 65% compared with the same peri-
CAL BUSINESS od last year ( 187.9 million denars), while on a net-base the revenue growth
Patented medicines are the key of pharmaceutical business` success. is 56%, the bank announces.
They are also crucial for state`s economic development which depends on p.48 DOMINATION OF DEUTSCHE TELECOM IN THE REGION
pharmaceutical industry. Deutsche Telecom makes efforts to complete the telecommunication
p.11TIKVES WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE FAIR IN NOVI SAD market on South East Europe through purchase of one fifth of the capital of
The wines of the winery cellar Tikves won the championship on the agro the Greek telecommunication company OTE.
fair held in Novi Sad among competition of 750 presented wines.
p.11 FOUR COMPANIES IN THE RACE FOR MACEDONIAN AIR- FORUM
PORTS
The companies Vienna export, Austria, TAV, Turkey, Hochtief, Germany p.26 MACEDONIA TO BECOME SINGAPORE?
and the British-French Egis delivered the public tender documents for issu- A letter from the future. Macedonia 2012. The total foreign investments,
ing concession for construction, reconstruction and utilization of the airports including the past two months of this year, have increased to 500 million dol-
Aleksandar VeliKI and Sv. Apostol Pavle and for construction of the new lars. The total foreign investments for the past four years (2008-2012) are
cargo-airport in Stip. more than two billion dollars.
p.12 THE DUTCH DHB PURCHASED THE EXPORT CREDIT BANK P.33 SHARES OF KOMERCIJALNA – MOST TRADED SHARES
IK bank signed a purchase agreement of package of shares between the . The past trade week began with a turnover of 21 million denars in the
consortium shareholder of the export credit bank AD Skopje and Demir-Halk classical trade of shares on the Official market where MBI-10 dropped by 0.4
Bank, founded in Rotterdam, Nederland. percent. On the Regular market which realized a value of 3.2 million denars,
p.14 IFC JOINS THE INVESTMENTS OF SORAVIA GROUP IN THE the share of iDevelop had the biggest participation in the turnover, realizing
REGION 1.38 million denars through 15.700 traded shares.
The International Financial Corporation (IFC) joined Soravia Real Estate
Development Group as strategic financial partner, and became an owner of MAKEDONSKO SONCE
13 % of the company.
p.22 OVER 500 MILLION EUROS FORM THE BUDGET FOR AGRI- p.34 THE INFLATION IN MACEDONIA WON THE BANK INTERESTS
CULTURISTS BY 2012! Although bankers bore as much as they could, still the bank interest s
VMRO-DPMNE won the previous elections with the attractive and good can not bear the pressure of the high inflation, which two months exceeds
prepared economic program. The party now has the same program only this the two digit limits. Starting from June, 1, citizens and companies will face
time expanded. new higher interest rates, between 0.5 and 1 percent in average.
p.29 THERE IS NO WINE BETTER THAN MACEDONIAN
Well-know enologists, wine experts, members of the association of the DENES
European consulate of wine knights and representatives of the winery cellars
accompanied by Slovenian media, last week visited the winery Skovin. p.21 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CORRIDOR SOUTH-WEST OR
p.38 THE STATE HAS THE BIGGEST BENEFIT FROM THE TOTAL ISOLATION
INCREASED OIL PRICES Macedonian railways, still more, the export-import companies in the
Few days ago, in one debate show on Croatian television dedicated on state, in the days of the transport blockade by Greece, have increased costs,
the record oil price increase, one of the guests, Davor Stern (former direc- because they must seek another quick alternatives to export the products by
tor of the Croatian oil company INA, today a vice-president of the Russian oil not suffering losses due to the products` delay to the final destination.
giant TNK, in a function of oil lobbyist stated that everyone benefit from the
increased prices of the “Black gold”: countries exporters of oil, countries FOKUS
importers of oil, because their governments benefit due to increased tax
base for calculating VAT at oil derivates. p.9 THE FOOD WITH HIGHER PRICE BY 2015
p.42THE STATE DENATIONALIZATION BOND – LAST WEEK`S MOST The World Bank expects the food prices to remain high in the next years.
TRADED SECURITIES The executive director of the bank, Juan Jose Daboub, stated that the food
Last week the stock exchange turnover in the classical trade was high- price increase is not a temporary appearance which could exceed in few
er in relation to the week before, for around 14 % and was 130 million denars months. On the contrary, the World Bank considers that the food prices will
(around 2.1 million euros). remain high at least until 2015.
p.44 ZK PELAGONIJA WITH LOSS OF 72 THOUSAND EUROS IN
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EVENTS THAT MARKED THE WEEK...
VIP`S EXCUSIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH VODAFONE

BLACKBERRY AVAILABLE IN MACEDONIA


Both partners will continue to work as inde- ship with Vodafone will ensure that the total as- zed and innovative communication apparatus
pendent companies, but VIP has the exclusive sortment of VIP`s international standard pro- which combine voice, e-mail, Internet browse
rights to offer Vodafone`s products and services to ducts and services will finally be available to- and data applications. As a result of our strate-
its clients. The operator VIP will add the logo of gether with the unique local services of VIP`s gic partnership with Vodafone and the Mobil-
Vodafone to all products and services offered as a users, said Stefan Vail, senior manager of Vo- kom Austria group this is the first time Macedo-
result of this partnership. dafone`s partner markets. nian market to have access to these products
Nikola Ljusev, chief executive director of and services. We believe that BlackBerry soluti-
Mobile operator VIP and the world internati- VIP, considers the partnership with Vodafone as on will bring users new and more exciting ways
onal mobile communicational group, Vodafone, benefit for all users of their telephone network. of communication, stated Mario Cvitovic, chief
last week officially presented its exclusive stra- They indicated again their innovative approach marketing director of VIP.
tegic partnership. VIP`s users will join the glob- on Macedonian mobile telecommunication mar- Charmaine Eggberry, vice president and
al community of Vodafone which currently has ket. Introducing this product on Macedonian Managing Director for Europe Middle East and
over 520 million members throughout the world. market indicates that VIP continues to join Africa, also stated his satisfaction from the
Vodafone has over 252 million users at the end worlds on a leading international communicati- introduced BlackBerry solution in Macedonia.
of 2007 and has direct investments in 25 coun- on group and VIP`s local knowledge. BlackBerry intelligent phones enable people to
tries of five continents. Vodafone is present on Thanks to the partnership, VIP`s users in be connected with their colleagues, friends and
41 partner market with 270 million users in over future will enjoy in more innovative services, ex- family as well as mobile approach to the grow-
60 countries throughout the world. clusive telephone apparatus in the international ing volume of the business and personal appli-
Vodafone announced that Macedonia will roaming coverage of Vodafone. Both partners cations. VIP will offer BlackBerry Enterprise
work exclusively with VIP. will continue to work as independent compani- Server for larger enterprises and BlackBerry
- Telecommunication services on the Bal- es, but VIP has the exclusive rights to offer Vo- Internet Service for residential users or smaller
kans record rapid growth and it is our pleasure dafone`s products and services to its users. companies.
that Vodafone has now the opportunity through Several members of Mobilkom Austria group,
its partnership with the mobile operator VIP to as Mobilkom Austria (Austria), VIPNET (Croa- BlackBerry Curve 8310:
enter in another Balkan market. The partner- tia), MTEL (Bulgaria), SIMOBIL (Slovenia) and BlackBerry Curve 8310 is powerful and
VIP mobile (Serbia) have already joined this intuitive intelligent phone which besides the
BlackBerry Enterprise Server partnership with Vodafone. full equipped keyboard has a compact size.
For corporative users, the Blackberry The first benefit for Macedonian citizens The apparatus also includes rich multimedia
Enterprise Server Software is safety integrat- from this strategic partnership is introducing the possibilities such as integrated GPS which
ed with existing corporative systems for BlackBerry of Vodafone – intelligent phones, supports location-based applications and
enabling constant wireless approach on e- software and services in order to enable easy services such as mapping and navigation.
mail and other corporative data together with access to e-mail, phone, calendar, Internet, BlackBerry Pearl 8100
the advanced security, safety and IT adminis- multimedia contents and similar applications. BlackBerry Pearl 8100 intelligent phone
tration. This is the first product introduced by VIP, fol- is one of the smallest and easiest on the mar-
BlackBerry Internet Service lowing the announcement of the strategic part- ket, packs the functionality and performance
For individuals and smaller businesses, nership with Vodafone in Macedonia. On the in elegant design. In its compact and stylish
BlackBerry Internet Service enables the very beginning, VIP will offer BlackBerry® En- look, this triumphal apparatus includes pow-
users to approach to ten corporative and per- terprise Server and BlackBerry® Internet erful communicational tools and rich multime-
sonal e-mail addresses (including the e-mail Service with selection of intelligent phones dia possibilities which includes camera,
address of most popular Internet service BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310 and BlackBerry® music and video player and advanced mem-
providers) from one apparatus. Pearl™ 8100. ory part for additional data storage.
- Blackberry intelligent phones are sterili-

NEW BEER FROM PIVARA SKOPJE metalized label makes Skopsko silver Moon the the first months after the promotion, Skopsko
ultimate innovation on the domestic market of Silver Moon will be tested by 70% of the young
beer. beer consumers in our country, and even by

SKOPSKO SILVER - Skopsko Silver Moon represents revolu-


tion on the Macedonian beer market. It is the
90% of the young consumers in the age
between 18 and 30. We believe that this beer
MOON TO THE offspring of Skopsko – the most powerful beer
brand in the Republic of Macedonia, and one of
will become preferred brand at many of these
consumers”, stated Martina Misheska, Mana-
LIKING OF THE NEW the most powerful brands in our country in gen-
eral, and in the region for that matter.
ger for Domestic Beer Brands in Pivara Skopje.
Skopsko Silver
GENERATION Pivara Skopje is the only Macedonian bre-
wery which has experience, knowledge and the
Moon will be available
for the consumers pri-
- Skopsko Silver Moon is the name of the capacity to launch a sub-brand, modified and marily through the ca-
new beer from Pivara Skopje AD, which since adjusted to the habits and the lifestyle of the tering objects (disco-
Friday last week started to be distributed in the young, urban generation, and to everyone who theques, bars, night
catering objects throughout the country. feels just as young”, stated Igor Ilievski, mar- clubs…)
It is a matter of a light beer which offers fab- keting manager of Pivara Skopje, on occasion Skopsko Silver
ulous refreshment in the moments of fun and of the launching the new beer. Moon is dimensioned
socialization. “Skopsko Silver Moon is a modern, urban to two million bottles
It is produced by original recipe, by the help beer, above all intended for young, dynamic, until the end of this
of the ultimate technology of Pivara Skopje. progressive people who follow the modern year.
Transparent bottle, with distinctive shape and world trends. The projections are that already in
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