Serb President Boris Tadic officially opened near Kragujevec on Thursday an auto parts plant built by Grah Automotive from Slovenia. The plant stretches over 2,000 square metres and is to provide up to 250 jobs by the end of the year.
The Slovenjske Konjice-based company started building the plant in Batocina at the beginning of this year, with one of its owners, Robert Grah, assessing the value of the investment at EUR 1.5m.
Interestingly, the Batocina municipality offered the land needed for the project without charge.
According to Grah, all products of Grah Automotive's Batocina plant will be exported to EU countries, while buyers will include Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen and Audi.
Slovenia's Ambassador to Serbia Miroslav Luci, who also attended the opening ceremony, took the opportunity to call on Slovenian investors to invest in Serbia, which, according to him, is a politically and economically stable country suitable for foreign investment.
According to reports by Serb media, President Tadic, on the other hand, said that auto parts production had great prospects and pointed out that Serbia's airports would soon get "too crowded for all the world's investors".
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