Eastern Europe and the Balkans risk outbreaks of a deadly cattle disease if they fail to step up cow vaccinations, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Serbian meat processor IM Djurdjevic has signed its first deal to export 3,000 lambs to China, with eight more Serbian meat players finalising talks to launch beef exports the country.
Mass vaccination of cattle succeeded in containing lumpy skin disease in south-eastern Europe in 2015-16, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
The meat industries of Serbia and neighbouring countries are counting the cost of a six-day border closure between Serbia and Croatia, sparked by Europe’s refugee crisis.
Serbian meat processor Neoplanta and Chinese group China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) have unveiled plans to invest in Serbia’s meat industry.
Frozen fruit specialist Lamex Food Group will buy a majority stake in Serbian red fruit processor to boost business and protect the group’s supply chain, its CEO says.
Leading Serbian sugar producer Sunoko will continue to invest in it
operations throughout 2007, despite continued uncertainty over the
future of sugar production in the neighbouring EU.
The Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling company, which this week announced
solid sales growth led by emerging markets in Eastern Europe, has
confirmed its interest in Serbia's second largest mineral water
bottler as the company plans...
French firm Danone has pulled out of the chaotic race to buy
Serbian soft drinks firm Knjaz Milos, warning that it is not
prepared to commit itself in Serbia until there is political and
legal stability for investors, reports Chris...
Bidding for Serbian soft drinks producer Knjaz Milos, which was
last week thrown into disarray amid allegations of bribery and
political squabbling, has been extended until 6 December in an
attempt to save the country's reputation...
The Serbian Privitisation Agency says that all the current bids for
mineral water bottler Knjaz Milos will fail because they are too
low, a fact that is likely to lead to a second round of more heated
bidding. And with interest in...
Serbia appears to be flavour of the month for investors, as the
race to bag the country's leading mineral water bottler, Knjaz
Milos, intensifies following a late but serious bid from Serbian
national and LA Lakers basketball...
The European Investment Bank, the European Union's financing
institution, is making available a total of €70 million for Small
and Medium Sized Enterprises in Serbia and Montenegro.
Ball Packaging Europe, part of the US-owned Ball group, has
announced that it is to build a $40 million can packaging facility
located on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia.
Yu-Point, the largest grain trading company in Serbia and
Montenegro, is about to expand further with the help of a €12
million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and Fortis Bank, a leading Dutch-Belgian...
