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SERBIA
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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$565mn Food
Miodrag Kostic
Miodrag Kostic (57), Serbia’s flamboyant so-called “Sugar king”, is the owner of MK Group, the country’s leading sugar, food and agriculture company. Founded in 1980, it has 35 subsidiaries in Serbia, Ukraine and Switzer- land. Since 2009 it has diversified and is now also active in tourism, IT, financial services, real estate and energy within the region.
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Miroslav Miskovic
$600mn
Real estate, agriculture
Delta Holding is active in real estate, agricul- ture, distribution and tourism, and has contin- ued to grow despite the arrest of its founder and owner Miroslav Miskovic (71), who was jailed as an accessory to tax evasion in 2016. His son Marko and their business partner Milo Djuraskovic were arrested in the same case related to the privatisation of several road construction companies.
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$1bn Software
Samo and Iza Login
Samo Login (40) was a minority owner of search engine najdi.si before it was acquired by Telekom Slovenije. The Logins, now Slovenia’s richest couple in 2016, then designed virtual cat Talking Tom, which has 300mn active us- ers. In January they sold their company Outfit7 to Chinese group Zhejiang Jinke Entertainment Culture Co for a reported $1bn, in the single biggest transaction ever for a Slovenian com- pany or a company founded by Slovenians.
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$280mn Gaming
Joc Pececnik
Pececnik (48) is founder and chairman of Interblock, an international operator of casinos and developer and supplier of luxury electronic table gaming products. He founded Interblock in 1989, initially building PCs but later moved into POS systems and casinos.
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Sandi Cesko
$220mn
Online retailing
“Slovenia’s king of direct marketing” Cesko (56) is co-founder of Studio Moderna, a Slovenian based multi-channel retailing and direct-to customer platform operating in CEE and SEE. Cesko shuns ostentatious luxury and claims
he doesn’t even have a secretary since having one would just bother him, so he makes his own coffee.
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Bulgaria’s kingmaker parties to hold GERB
to ransom
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The centre-right Citizens for European Develop- ment of Bulgaria (GERB) might have won the snap parliamentary elections held on March 26, but the party is heading for tough negotiations with possible partners to gain a large enough majority to form a government, and will most likely be forced to make big compromises to stay in power.
Central Europe starts to tot up Brexit fallout
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Central European states expressed regret that the UK is leaving the EU as London triggered the Ar- ticle 50 withdrawal clause on March 29. They also quickly moved to start totting up the direct costs.
The economic effects of Brexit on Central Eu- rope are hard to pinpoint given the wide range of
Two smaller groups in the parliament – the na- tionalist United Patriots coalition and the populist Volya (Will) party – have already said they will pre- sent a united front in talks with GERB. They have also indicated they are willing to work with the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the runner-up in
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TmhaejoVrispeogwreardsr.egion will be hard hit by the loss of their closest ally amongst the bloc's
potential scenarios under which the UK will exit. However, most suggest the damage will be limited by modest direct trade ties.
In political terms, the Visegrad region will be
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