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s of 1st of May, Makedonski telekomu- According to the announcements of the
nikacii will rebrand to Makedonski management, the Macedonian telecom will
telekom, joint stock company for elec- make large investments for upgrading of the
tronic communications Skopje. The new name telecommunications infrastructure in the
will announce the entrance of the T-Home Republic of Macedonia, and an attractive pack-
brand at the Macedonian market, wherewith, age of integrated telecommunications, internet
the Macedonian telecom will be the first compa- and IPTV products will be offered to the cus-
ny within the frames of the international tomers. – We wish to simplify our telephone
Deutsche Telecom Group, which will follow the services and make them more accessible with
new brand architecture, presented in Germany fixed tariffs, to significantly improve our servic-
for the first time in May last year. With the es for the customers, simultaneously maintain-
rebranding, the company will become a mem- ing an open and friendly approach. We will con-
ber of the biggest telecommunications family of tinue offering attractive equipment and increas-
over 150 million customers in over 50 countries ing our portfolio with products such as high-tech the Deutsche Telecom Group is an important
all over the world, who enjoy in the privileges of phones, laptops, personal computers, wireless step forward for Makedonski telekomunikacii in
the T brand. LAN routers etc. The business costumers, who a direction of his constant advancement
According to Nikolai Beckers, Chief are main instigators of the economic growth, towards a successful future from a reason that
Executive Officer of AD Makedonski telekomu- will be able to enjoy in the most complete, tech- the strong brands are the main instigators of the
nikacii, replacing one name with another is not nologically advanced and best prepared pack- loyalty of the customers in a period of strong
a simple process. – Our company going age of solutions for communications and con- competition.
through a process of total transformation from a necting-emphasized Beckers. He added that - Our experiences indicate that the well
the Macedonian telecom will remain to be sig- known brands like Maktel are becoming even
nificant economic instigator, technological and stronger with their rebranding and with the T
Scope of products and services social pillar of the Republic of Macedonia, brand and they continue improving their long-
because it is among the biggest tax payers. term market position. The rebranding had an
- The aim of Makedonski telekomunikacii Greeting the entrance of the T brand, Zarko exceptionally positive effect over the sub-
is to offer a complete range of services Lukovski, President of the Board of Directors of sidiaries regarding new users, the loyalty of the
according to the individual needs of the cus- AD Makedonski telekomunikacii, emphasized current users, as well as the total business
tomer; this means we will give a choice to our that this investment became a synonym for development. I am sure that we will feel the
customer. Some customers simply want a worthy partnership with the state, which, apart influence of the new brand of Makedonski
telephone line with an affordable price; others from an attractive brand, also received an telekomunikacii-empathized Schmidt.
are looking at a complete package meaning a investor who will become a leader in the Basically, with the rebranding, Makedonski
combination of fixed line flat rate, high speed Macedonian economy. – The constant investing telekomunikacii should transform into a giver of
internet access and interactive television. In of Deutsche Telecom in the development of the telecommunications services, which is oriented
the forthcoming months, we will launch these telecommunications market in Macedonia is an towards the customers, who will have an
products one at a time. At the beginning we excellent example for the domestic business access to the increasing potential of the mod-
will have a simple fixed offer, which would and for the future foreign investors. The impor- ern telecommunications services. The process,
offer the customers a lower call price at night, tance and the benefit of the stationing of the which is very significant for the company and
i.e. free calls after 7 pm. Then we will intro- corporative T brand in Macedonia are multiple. for the state, is planned to come to a conclusion
duce voice services via internet and that will According to Tobias Schmidt, the Vice in May this year, and funds will be provided by
go along with our ADSL product-emphasized President Brand Management of Deutsche the Deutsche Telecom Group.
CEO Beckers. Telekom, the integration in the brand family of V.M.
OHRIDSKA BANKA AD OHRID can use the promotional offer in the branch Beside that Ohridska Banka, as a company
office by 10, June, this year to apply for cash which respects corporative principles of social
express credit and home loan, both without responsibility, donated editions from the mono-
New branch office in Gostivar administrative costs and Master Card with 50% graph Coins from Ohridska Banka collection, to
membership fee allowance for the first year. secondary schools in Gostivar.
In order to provide availability of services to
users, Ohridska Banka, as a member of the Changes in the steering board
Societe Generale Group has opened new
branch office in Gostivar. This is our first signif- In accordance with the reached decision of the Shareholder`s assembly, a Supervisory
icant investment expansion by new branch Committee has been established and president and members of the Steering Board have been
offices through the country. It is organized by appointed. Jean Didier Rene was appointed president of bank`s Supervisory Committee who is
the concept of personal approach toward also a director for Europe in the sector for International retail banking in Societe Generale – Paris
clients, which means that every client has its and Perrin Gilbert and Philip Godeaux was appointed for members from shareholders`s line.
own personal banker for counseling will full Independent members of this body are Ratko Cadikovski, president of Supervisory Committee
financial work support in the country and and Koco Mocan, president of the Steering Board of Tehnometal Vardar AD Skopje.
abroad – the president of the Steering Board of Mito Goreski and Petar Tegovski have been appointed members of the Steering Board while
Ohridska Banka, Bernard Koenig stated. Bernard Koenig has been designated president of the Board of Directors.
On the occasion of the opening, citizens
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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Macedonian stock exchange in the past two port. According to the statement of vice-prime minister
weeks is going through one of the hardest periods of its Zoran Stavreski, Macedonia will receive loan of about
MAKEDONSKI TELEKOMUNIKACII IS existence. The strong market correction, which is pres- 70 million euros from the World Bank for construction
REBRANDING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ent for already six months, it seems, experiences its of new and reconstruction of existing roads in all muni-
columniation, assesses the brokerage house Alta Vista cipalities. The loan will be approved by the end of May
in the stock exchange analysis in today's Biznis. Under and can be used after the elections. The World Bank's
OHRIDSKA BANKA AD OHRID. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 pressure of the predominant political factor, presented management also offered financial aid for investing in
with the non obtained NATO membership invitations, the part of energy, especially in the part of energetic
berzNIK, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. . . . 5-7 and nowadays with the Parliament dissolution and the connection with the region and for reconstruction of hy-
scheduled early elections, past weeks, the investors droelectric power plants in the part of Elektrani na Ma-
POSITIVE EXPERIENCES OF THE STOCK hurried to realize sales at prices which, perhaps, two or kedonija.
EXCHANGES FROM THE REGION. . . . 8 - 1 2 three mouths ago, have been regarded as incredibly One can read in Vecer that the Administrative Co-
low. The MBI-10 index is very close to its value that had urt denied the appeal of Makedonski Telekomunikacii
CRYSTAL BELL FOR 2007................... 11 one year ago (on 18.04.2007 had absolute value of to the decision from the Commission for Protection of
5.803,74 points, and on the closing day, on Friday, Competition, for charging handling charges in the
amounted 5.823,50 points), and the index MBID have monthly accounts. Despite that Telekom listened to the
berzNIK, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY already reached its historic minimum of 6.354,99 points CPC and stopped charging this service charge, the
...............................................13-15 since the day when its calculation started. On the mar- Commission has fined it with 2,3 million euros, becau-
ket, last week, besides the fall in prices of the most of se this company had abused its dominant position on
WEEKLY MAGAZINES...…....................16 stocks, it was remarkable the fall of the turnover in the the market. From the area of telephony, in the media
regular trading. With average 33, 5 millions of denars present is the news that by the end of the month T-Mo-
PAST WEEK IN THE TOKEN OF... ..............17 daily turnover, the week can be counted as the weak- bile and Kosmofon should answer if they will reduce
est trading weeks. the interconnection prices for talks with the VIP opera-
WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE MACEDONIAN Today's papers mark the holding of the Ninth an- tor for 50 percent, as the Agency for Electronic Co-
STOCK EXCHANGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 nual conference of the Macedonian stock exchange, on mmunications imposed it to do by the end of March.
which most of the participants assessed that the cur- With the title "Gasification in a standstill" Vreme in-
rent political events affect the economic occurrences in forms that the Government has withdrawn from the
the country, but with not that big of intensity. Experts court battle with Makpetrol over the incomes from the
I M P R E S S U M and brokers think that the Stock Exchange will start to
recover and that the foreign investors will have capaci-
gas pipeline. There has been a cease of the procedure
in which the state claims around 6, 5 million dollars
ty to see the positive results in economy. The Stock Ex- without interest rate, money gained by the oil company
change awarded the prize for most transparent compa- in a period of eight years, when it managed the gas pi-
ny - the Crystal Bell Award which went to Komercijalna peline.
Banka and another Crystal Bell for scientific work to Next year the farmers will receive 70 million euros
Viktorija Atanasovska. from the Government as subsidies. Department Mi-
Publishing: INTERNACIONAL NIK AD - Skopje Considering the business climate and the tax re- nister Zivko Jankulovski expects the current weakness-
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Executive Director: Zdravko Josifovski 1. MACEDONIA GOT THE SUPPORT FROM THE WORLD BANK (*****)
Account Menager: Divna Pesic 2. THE INVESTORS WILL RETURN BACK IF THERE IS A STABILE POLITICAL CLIMATE (**)
Public relations: Natasa Dimovska
Marketing manager: Ivona Josifovska DNEVNIK p.1 MACEDONIA AMONG THE BEST IN EUROPE
Assistent: Stojne Danilova p.4 PRILEP AWAITS 12 MILLION DENARS FROM AND IN THE WORLD FOR BUSINESS CONDI-
Logistics manager: Ana Petrova CONCESSIONS TIONS AND TAX REFORMS
Finance manager: Gordana Stojanovska p.6 THE ECOLOGISTS FEAR FROM ACID
p.4 NEXT YEAR, 70 MILLION EUROS FOR THE
STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF EVENTS IN THE AGRICULTURE p.7 STOCK EXCHANGE TURBULENCES DUE TO
PRINT MEDIA berzNIK p.5 LOAN OF 70 MILLION EUROS BY WORLD BANK POLITICS
FOR ROADS p.7 THE INVESTORS WILL RETURN BACK IF THERE
berzNIK is founded in year 2007. p.5 ABOUT FIFTY REQUESTS FOR SUBVENTIONS IS A STABILE POLITICAL CLIMATE
IN THE KICEVO REGION VREME
STOCK EXCHANGE REVIEW OF EVENTS IN THE p.5 BITOLA IS NOT ON THE AGENDA OF THE p.6 THE FOREIGNERS WILL RETURN ON THE
PRINT MEDIA berzNIK GREEK BUSINESSMEN STOCK MARKET
Number: 19 BIZNIS p.6 MACEDONIA WILL RECEIVE FUNDS FOR ECO-
Date: 21.04.2008 p.1 BANKS SPEED UP TO VAULT LAST YEAR PROF- NOMIC REFORMS
IT p.7 DO NOT SIGN CONTRACTS WITHOUT ANNEX-
IT IS DISTRIBUTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
p.3 MACEDONIA GOT THE SUPPORT FROM THE ES
FRONT PAGE PHOTO: WORLD BANK p.7 THE FARMERS GLADLY RUB THEIR HANDS
MAKEDONSKI TELEKOMUNIKACII IS REBRANDING p.5 THE INTERESTS BROUGHT 1.4 MILLION p.7 THE STATE CALLS CEASE FIRE IN THE BATTLE
DENARS TO NLB TUTUNSKA BANKA OVER MAKPETROL FOR THE TIME BEING
Photo: p.5 TRANSFORMATION IN THE MOST PROFITABLE p.7 THE PRICES WILL RISE
Robert Spasovski INSTITUTIONS p.9 FARMERS OBTAIN 20 WASTE PROCESSORS
p.5 THE REALITY CANNOT HARM THEM p.10 THE MONEY IS SECURED; THE TENDER IS A
Editorial staff of berzNIK BIT LATE
Internet distributive system:
p.14 CRASH OF THE THREE INDEXES
www.interNIK.com.mk p.14 WITH BLOCK TRANSACTION, 15.230 STOCKS VEST
Editor: Makedonka Baldazarska OF STOPANSKA BANKA- BITOLA HAVE BEEN p.3 70 MILLION EUROS INTENDED FOR THE
Journalist: Vaska Mickoska, Kiro Simonovski TRADED ROADS
DTP: Tatijana Trpkovska p.14 MBI 11.04.2008 p.6 T-MOBILE AND COSMOFON WON`T SUBMIT
Editorial staff: p.15 FUNDS BRING FEWER LOSSES FOR THEMSELVES TO VIP
News Evaluator: Anita Bashoska, R. Tasovska INVESTORS NOVA MAKEDONIJA
[operators]:Mare Lazarevska, Arslan Skoro, Zoran Stamatovski, p.15 THE STOCKS WITH INCREDIBLY LOW PRICES p.5 MACEDONIA RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM THE
Martin Arsovski, Gorge Redzik, Toni Arsovski i Darko Tripunovski UTRINSKI VESNIK WORLD BANK
[translators]: translator's manager Senka Mihajlovska, Angelina ñ.5 ECOLOGISTS WARN OF CATASTROPHE IN THE p.5 VELES SMELTERY WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
Filipovska, Slobodan Trajkovski, Aleksandar Stamenkovski, Aneta
SMELTER p.5 THE FIRST BLOCK OF REK BITOLA IS STILL
Menoska, Filip Koviloski, Darko Ivanovski
Fotoreporter: Robert Spasovski p.7 STOPPED PATRIOTIC FISCAL RECEIPTS? SWITCHED OFF
p.7 KOMERCIJALNA BANKA - MOST TRANSPARENT p.5 THE MISERABLE ONE- WEEK PERFORMANCE
Marketing, distribucija i proda`ba: LISTED COMPANY IN THE ASSEMBLY SCARED THE INVESTORS
INTERNACIONAL NIK AD - Skopje p.7 THE WORLD BANK GIVES ANOTHER 70 MIL- SPIC
LION FOR ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE p.6 THE WORLD BANK TAPS MACEDONIA
VECER
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1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS
The basic recommendations from the reached 6,309.75 denars and marks reduction toms is the headline in the newspaper Dnevnik,
Annual Macedonian Stock Exchange Conferen- of 45.25 index points, i.e. 0.71%. Index of Bonds which informs about the accents of the confer-
ce, held in Ohrid last this past weekend are con- on MSE, OMB, reached 106.82 denars and ence held on the occasion of the 16th anniver-
veyed by today’s edition of Utrinski Vesnik marks correction compared to previous day. sary. The companies that perform import or ex-
through the interview with Ivan Shteriev. – The The Slovenian fund MP Asset Management port would not have to pay for terminal any mo-
main recommendation is that the investments this year is planning to open two investment re; they will be able to charge duties on goods
on the securities market require analytical and funds in Macedonia, through which the citizens on their own if they own permission for simplifi-
soberly bringing of investments decisions. in this country can invest in the Macedonian as ed customs procedures, this was stated by the
Coincidence or not, the conference is like herald well as in the foreign stock markets – Dnevnik director of the Customs Administration, Vancho
of the Macedonian stock exchange market cyc- conveys. The drastic fall of the prices of the sha- Kargov.
les. We had similar recommendations. At that ti- res, which lasts for a few months now, is not a Amongst the dominant in the economic sec-
me, also, some were more optimistic and others reason for the Slovenians not to believe that the tion was the information regarding the renovat-
were more pessimistic, which is normal. This is trend will yet be going up. According to Lukovac, ed cargo – centre at the Alexander the Great air-
why the market exists, because different people, president of the management board of this fund, port.
physical entities, investors, directors and finan- impressive information is the one about the in- The clearing of the shipments at the airport
cial institutions, are bringing decisions headed crease of the deposits for the population for over will be simplified, the director of the Customs
by their own believes. The second recommen- 50 percent for one year, which shows that there Administration Vanco Kargov and the director of
dation, which was without division of optimists is still money that can be invested in shares. PE for Airport Services Macedonia Zoran Krs-
and pessimists, is that the main thing that dicta- Almost all newspapers publish the news re- tevski promised at the yesterday’s promotion of
te the price of the securities on long and middle garding the successful activity of the Macedo- the renovated premises of the Customs Admi-
term are the companies performances. Third, al- nian company Seavus, which will increase the nistration in the cargo centre of the airport.
so with consensus, is that the price correction number of employees in the Development Cen- The action costs about 25,000 euros. As of
that happened on the Macedonian stock ex- tre in Nis from the current 14 to 70. In Seavus last year, the cargo traffic is increasing, which is
change, apart from being painful for certain in- they announced that they also plan to expend due to the reduced prices of the servicing of the
vestors, is still a good thing. the cooperation in the information technology planes and the increased marketing activity. The
On the other hand, the 4.49 percent drop of faculties in Nis in order for this city to grow into registration of a Turkish cargo company Orex,
MBI-10 is once more in the focus of today’s the leading development centre for IT-technolo- which will transport goods from the Near East
newspapers, the Stock Exchange indexes are gy in this part pf Serbia. and st with two jumbo jets Booing 747, is ongo-
continually having a decreasing trend. On Mon- Main topic is also the conference held in the ing, director Krstevski announced.
day MBI-10 reached 5,562.22 denars and Customs Administration on the occasion of its All newspapers also informed about the
marks reduction of 261.27 index points, i.e. 16 years of existence, which was conveyed by minimal price increase of 0.5 denars per litter for
4.49%. Index of Publicly Held Companies MBID all media. – The businessman their own cus- all fuels.
O
n the ninth Macedonian Stock Ex- ticipation, with great distribution possibilities, manager delivers the presentation to the
change Annual Conference, which is mostly in sales. analyst, who than delivers the analyses to in-
international for second time, was dis- surance company, and than the marketing
cussed on a number of current issues that Goals that are intended to be achieved presentation is prepared. The investment
occupy the Macedonian capital market thro- are established in every privatization. What funds, the domestic and foreign investors are
ugh a number of panels that were reported we do now is not just to maximize the priva- analyzed in order to gain more information
and analyzed by many media, and partly by tization process, but to promote investments on the investment environment. This is actu-
berzNIK. in Slovenia as well. As a Government, we are ally a pre- phase of the marketing phase. In
trying to promote the domestic capital mar- this phase, reports for the media are pre-
This time we decided to report part of the ket, to decrease the role of the public sector, pared. The price fluctuation is determined in
presentations of the foreign participants who which, according to me, is much prevalent in accordance with the information gained, and
took part on the fifth panel discussion, which investment, in reallocation of the goals we than starts the presentation in public when
was the last on the conference debate. A want to achieve. We are trying to found a books for recording orders in financial institu-
panel, where the increasing pressure of the basis for further growth through capital real- tions are opened, as Slovenia managed it, by
market demand can be solved by strengthen- ization, to minimize the obstacles that are presenting its plan in London, Zurich,
ing the offer was discussed. How to create present in the operations and the manage- Stockholm, Frankfurt, Paris, USA and Vien-
new financial instruments on the side of the ment. na. At the end of this period, we collected the
offer, especially on small stock exchanges, offers and concluded the end price, and than
mid-term and long term. So, more foreign ex- If we revise the options for the pattern of followed the phase of deciding. The whole
periences are elaborated. The fifth panel dis- privatization of Nova kreditna banka, there is process lasts about six months.
cussion was on issues was strengthening the sale of great part of shares to a strategic in-
offer on the capital market: initial public offer vestor, and on the other side, there is public Other manner of privatization is through
of stocks, public offer of stocks, new privati- offering and rating. In the middle is the sell- dual checking process, when the possible
zations. The moderator of this panel discus- ing of smaller part of the bank shares or other IPO and the process of selling through trade
sion, Elena Jakimovska Petrovska, executive institution to a strategic investor and private that the Government has chosen for the pri-
director of Macedonian Stock Exchange on sell to a financial donor on a manner that the vatization process are compared. By this
the announcement for the presentation of Government`s part can be sold to that institu- comparison, the process is left in inaction for
Nova kreditna banka Maribor, said that what tion. some time, so that there is possibility to cho-
is interesting for the privatization of part of ose the best privatization option and there is
the company`s shares, same as the case When the goals for privatization and the grater awareness of the investor environ-
with Croatian Telecom, is that they were offe- manner of making public offering are consid- ment, so it can be ascertained which price
red in a specific period. Namely, these two ered, I think that the negative effects from the can be achieved, is the company ready for
initial offers came right in a period when the sales of most of the Government`s shares to IPO, etc. Also, the decisions can be postpo-
turnover on the other stock exchanges was a strategic investor do not contribute to deve- ned for some time. This manner of privatizati-
significantly decreased and the other region- lopment of capital market. The Government on is a great burden for the management be-
al markets definitely noticed it. sales its part independently, there is a good cause of the high costs. The offer is 49 % of
market of investments, but there are also ot- the total share capital. The shares were quot-
Is the state joint stock her options. ed only on Ljubljana Stock Exchange, unlike
Croatian Telecom whose shares were quoted
company in the role of seller of There are other options between selling on the stock exchanges on Zagreb and Lon-
shares? smaller part of shares and private placement don. Our advisor advised us on dual quoting.
of share capital. This manner of privatization We, as a Government, decided to quote only
Luka Vesnaver - Ministry of finance of Slo- is not for achieving short- term goals, so that on Ljubljana Stock Exchange. Our syndicate
venia. Vesnaver was project manager of the is why we chose the manner of privatization structure was composed of single branch
project for privatization of Nova kreditna ban- through public offering. We also have IPO ti- coordinator for the whole world and a book-
ka Maribor through public offering. Before metable in order to present the whole privati- runner. The concluding and closing was
privatization, the bank was in state owner- zation process, which lasts about four to five made in 2007, when the investment market
ship, and now the state owns 51 %. months. The first phase of the process is in was quite large and I think the transaction
preparation, where company`s business closing was very successful at that time. The
- Slovenia as a bank environment offers plans should be defined and a schedule for allocation was fully completed, so that 23, 1
good investment offers for the state as well the share capital. In this phase, a manage- % was for the sale, while 10, 2 % was for the
as for the other EU countries. We are extend- ment presentation should also be made. In home institutional investors. This structure
ed on a high growth markets in the countries NKMB case we did not have much time to was different from the Croatian Telecom
of Central and North-east Europe, and we prepare business plan; we had advisors that structure, but it had similar situation in de-
also have a developed bank market between advised us on our project and transactions mand that overcame- 1000 billion dollars we-
East and West Europe. Slovenia is a small which enabled us to complete this phase in a re realized. The home institutional investors
country, but it has relatively great market par- relatively short period of time. After this, the were dominant in these transactions. And the
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price fluctuation was quite ambitious. Our sales and how much to the institutions. There - Greenshoe up to 3,471,361 exist-
finance advisor suggested lowering the price, were politicians who claimed Greenfield allo- ing shares
which appeared to be correct because we cation, and on the other side were those who - Bookbuilding-range HRK 245 to
achieved the top border of price fluctuation. claimed allocation of sales. It is important to HRK 320
have institutions that can be investors and - Global Coordinator & Sole
IPO the first day closed with 47 % from contributors to a great liquidity at the same Bookrunner: JP Morgan
the total of 27 % of shares which is a great time. There is no significant number of liquid - Domestic Lead Managers : Erste
rise. The end price ended with a rise of 44 %, shares without institutions. Bank, Hrvatska Poštanska Banka
which was a growth of 60 %. Also, we noticed
that the IPO share was second most traded According to the moderator Petrovska, Successful deal: The offering was around
share on Ljubljana Stock Exchange with a the conclusion after this presentation is that five times covered (including Greenshoe);
total turnover of 30 million euro. when talking about selling state owned Retail oversubscribed more than two times
shares, the state should behave as an ordi- the entire offered no. of shares; Foreign insti-
What we could notice the last few nary joint stock company which prepares tutional investors oversubscribed around 20
months is that on the turbulent financial mar- public offer of shares. times, while domestic institutional investors
ket the investment institutions were selling oversubscribed around 9 times; Issue price
their shares, so that the 50 % reduced to 7 - We hope that these experiences will be after bookbuilding: HRK 265; 23% of the
%, while the sale was quite stabile, the applied in Macedonia as well, in situations offering was placed with institutional
domestic institutions strengthened to some when the state will decide to make such investors (domestic 35%, foreign 65%); a
degree, but not significantly. The situation on approaches in choosing a model for selling total of about 77% of the offering was placed
the world market caused share reduction, but state capital, said Jakimovska. with retail investors (incl. Greenshoe); Free
anyway, it remained on about 10 %. On a float 32.5% after IPO; First day of trading:
local level, the Slovenian market was over- Croatian Telecom – successful +43% (+58% intraday).
weighed with privatization plans, so that was The investment story of T-Hrvatski
another negative effect. story Telekom looks like this:
If we look back at the initial prices and MarinHresic - president of THE Mana- Above average EBITDA margin – 46.8%
what we have succeeded to achieve, we can gement Board, ERSTE Securities Zgreb, in 2006; strong free cash flow generation;
say that we advanced the development of the Croatia. The Zagreb Stock Market had a free substantial pile of cash (net cash position of
home capital market, we advanced the float of 32.5% after listing. The Government HRK 6.5bn in 2006 – 42% of total assets);
investment in Slovenia and especially I must initially intended to sell 20%+3% of its stake dividend is paid annually, with payout policy
stress that we introduced world investment in state-owned companies. Strong demand of 50-100%. At the moment they have a lead-
companies on the market. Partly, we reduced resulted with Government decision to ing position on the Croatian market regarding
the role of the public sector and we intro- increase the number of shares in the IPO by mobile telephony, fixed telephony, wholesale,
duced the structure to improve the corpora- additional 9.5% stake (together amounted for Internet and, data services. Their strategy
tive management, so was aimed towards upgra-
we expect positive re- ding basic telecommuni-
sults in future. What cations to innovative add-
we did not achieve to on services; pre-paid to
complete is founding post-paid transformation;
a basis for further headcount reduction and
growth and that is our focusing investments on
mistake, because we growth areas; acquisitions
had no additional ca- and Broadband services.
pital. Other goal we
achieved is maximiz- Based on T-Hrvatski
ing profit and, partly, Telecom’s performance in
we gained quality ac- the first half of 2007 and
tive capital with a conditions in the overall
great participation on telecom services sector,
the active European the company expects for
markets. I think we upcoming years:
achieved much of the • A slight Group reve-
goals. nues decline year-on-
year, due to fixed telepho-
One of the main problems was the media 32.5% of its stake, only secondary shares ny revenue decrease
over- presence in the whole process, and at made no capital increase. We agreed for a • Slow revenue growth in mobile telepho-
the same time, the public had no clear vision billion euros, while 358 thousand Croatian ny, Internet and wholesale
for our work on privatization. We had a spe- citizens participated including a very strong • A slow EBITDA margin decrease year-
cific home atmosphere about underestimat- domestic and international demand. on-year
ing the home demand, as well as legal and • Slow increase of EBIT year-on-year,
regulation problems. Problems also occurred Subsequently we had: due to falling depreciations
by corporative financing, the offer and the qu- • Dividend payout policy of 50-100%
oting that were practiced only through Ljub- - Privatization of state-owned pack- annually
ljana Stock Exchange and I think we made age of shares
the right choice. We also had problems de- - Public offering in Croatia (preferen- Events concerning T-Hrvatski Telekom at
ciding, namely with KDD, which is local clear- tial and non-preferential) the end of
ing institution which has no international link - Offer period institutional investors:
for clearing system. Another problem was the 17/09/07 – 01/10/07 October 2007 brought to:
allocation. One problem was its approval by - Offer period retail investors: - Stronger market drop;
the Government, and another problem was 17/09/07 – 27/09/07 - Strong pressure from retail clients,
whether uncover the criteria or not, and at - Preferential allotment for retail almost day to day drop
the end we decided to keep them in secret. It investors up to an order size of HRK 38,000
was discussed how much to allocate to the - 23,142,412 existing shares In November 2007:
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- Downward pressure continued companies are listed which comes from the Another feature which I consider is not
- Q3 company results mostly in line market privatization. familiar only to Romania is the high participa-
with expectations (Revenues +1%, Net profit tion of the direct retail. If you want to have
+15%) About the favorable factors for introduc- effective IPO, there should be solid distribu-
- Croatian parliamentary elections ing the IPO business on Romania, I can say tion network on available place that will not
were near that the action has started in 2004, when the cause problems. Since the contract is made,
- Croatian National Bank announced valuations have over passed the levels in the book for making applications there
higher expected inflation for the incoming offered by the private equity funds. In 2003, should not be written the names of the
year BSE introduced new system which included investors, but the bulk and the price of the
basic marketing platform that enabled a con- shares which will be available to the foreign
December 2007: tract to be made, which was also a problem. brokers. Since recently there is an option for
After many years spent on focusing on the hiding this information from the other bro-
- New pension funds regulation was contracts for private equity capital, quality kers.
strong market mover in December legal advices available to the domestic mar-
- HDZ won the Croatian parliamen- ket were offered. The local investors have The beginning of IPO business has been
tary elections and got the mandate to form a become more and more interested to find developing very slowly. Upward change had
government companies interested for making invest- been noticed for the first time when the
- Positive trend was seen on the ments in Romania. On the other side, there Government decided to sell approximately
market although retail pressure on HT was were a lot of hurdles for development of the 10 % of the state shares to the Romanian
still seen IPO business in Romania, from both legal energetic company Trancelektrica, which
and regulation perspective and organization- attracted the public attention. That was the
December 2008: al, too. first time we remarked change in the public
First, on the capital market wasn’t understandings for the Government, beca-
- Positive sentiment on the market enabled preferential allocation. In pre-mar- use, we like it or not, the governmental deci-
continued keting phase, when there is small number of sion has the major influence upon the devel-
- HT however remained floating investors who try to work out their task, and opment of the local capital market through
around HRK 350 to give quality response, the award for their the processes of privatization. This was the
- Decision not to place a binding ten- effort is allocation of IPO. If you can not make first time the politicians to be strongly con-
der for 49.13% shares of Telekom Slovenije preparation action, the results from the pre- vinced that this was the best approach for
- Despite bearish market the price marketing phase will appear, so it is in your privatization of the state companies. The fol-
was always above the IPO price favor to offer the preparation allocation to the lowing year we started a new process, IPO of
- Management proposed a 100% potential investors, in order to attract them. It Transgas, company that transmits gases
dividend pay-out ratio. is important greater allocation of investments under high pressure, which had also great
to be made on long term period, so the success in the process of privatization.
investors will become more interested to
Why there aren’t IPO on the retain their shares, instead to sell them the Among the most important IPO in Ro-
local market following day. Another hurdle is the applica- mania, was Transelectrica. What is charac-
tion or putting the money on account, as in teristic for this company is that it was 6.5
In each developing market ,there is a the case of institutions, or custody. In both times oversubscribed, although the total sum
question why on the local market there are cases it comprises costs. At the beginning, wasn’t high, approximately 35 millions of
no Initial Public Offerings (IPO) of securities, there is a great interest for application, but in euros. Another important IPO is Transgas,
and we wonder whether it depends from the the last days the interested people are trying which fully overcome our expectations,
market itself or the moment ,or there is to delay the application until the end of the because it had been oversubscribed 28 ti-
something else. In the case with Romania process. We had problems with the applica- mes. 1.8 millions of euros were issued in to-
were posed similar questions, but contrary to tion of the Pension Fund as investor that tal, and total turnover of 65 million of euros
Macedonia, Romania is already having posi- happened in 2007. was realized.
tive experience with the Initial Public Offe-
rings of couple joint stock companies. The problem with the restrictions of local Through IPO we tried to improve the
investor had led to bringing foreign investors. market, with introducing new instrument
Laurentiu Ciocirlan - which dependently of the
from Romania has tried to legal frame is very useful.
make reference to the evo- Until the closing of IPO a
lution process of PRP in his long time should pass,
country.- On the Bucharest and that is because the
Stock Market, as main new issued shares should
stock exchange in Ro- be registered in the com-
mania, the current market mercial register. Basically,
capital amounts 35 millions from the moment of clos-
of euros, with 61 companies ing of the offering, until
listed on the market and the begging of share trad-
one foreign company (Erste ing, you will obtain one to
Bank). The listing of Erste two months period of de-
Bank is of essential impor- lay. None investor wants
tance for the market, beca- to remain with frozen
use it connects the domes- investment without market
tic market with the foreign price, so we introduced a
through the Central deposi- new instrument which is
tary in Austria, and now we called Right on allocation,
are officially connected to with which we enabled the
the World Markets, and the traders to start trading
double listing is possibly three days after the con-
only if there is such connec- tract. This allocation right
tion. Also, we have OTC is basically similar to the
market, on which 1.945 shares. It is buying a
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share. Many were skeptics about this instru- good year for all partici- CRYSTAL BELL FOR 2007
ment, fearing whether the public will accept, pants on our capital market.
and at the end it proved as effective. Also, we
made a chart of companies that will be listed Last year we registered KOMERCIJALNA BANKA
in 2008, and their number is approximately
20, and we hope that this will be a year of
a 90% increase in the mar-
ket capitalization of our ex-
– MOST TRANSPARENT BANK
accelerated privatization through IPO. The change, which accounts for The award for best research work was
small IPO were successfully closed in the 55.46% of the country's won by Viktorija Atanasovska for its
first quarter. Previously we have mentioned GDP. The turnover in 2007 work – Empiric testing of the model
that there was change in the perceptions of went up 193 % and rea- for capital assets evaluation - Mace-
the Government for IPO processes of privati- ched EUR 5 billion. Both donian Stock Exchange case
zation, but, still, a process has been started our indexes increased sig-
of two major companies, The Bucharest nificantly in one year -the Macedonian Stock Exchange
Airport and Romtelekom, which is not only SOFIX grew by 45% and ninth annual conference ended
technical decision, but also party decision, as the BG40 by 159%. with Crystal Bell 2007 award for
was the case with Croatian Telekom. There best science-research work and
are announcement of IPO of the oil pipeline. 2007 was a record- the award for most transparent lis-
breaking year in terms of ted joint stock company on Mace-
As I said previously, on the Bucharest number of IPO's. We had 9 donian Stock Exchange.
Stock Exchange is listed, also, one foreign initial public offerings (the In order to help the science-
company, Erste Bank, which connected our main method used for IPO's research process in Republic of Macedonia in the field of securi-
market with the foreign. in Bulgaria is book-build- ties, the Stock Exchange announced a competition for annual
ing), but also 9 secondary award of best research work, last year, for the first time, in:
There is another example. The Govern- public offerings, 21 increas- Securities Market in the Republic of Macedonia.
ment initiative from 2004, called Program for es of capital and 30 new According to some key criteria, methodological approach,
strong market, didn’t started immediately but bond issues. 20 Special work`s innovation and appliance of research work results in prac-
after three to four years. We have noticed Purpose Investment Com- tice, the commission unanimously decided that M-r Viktorija
that with this initiative we attracted compa- panies (mainly Real Estate Atanasovska to be awarded for her research work titled “Empiric
nies on our market. For the development of Investment Trusts) listed testing of the model for capital assets evaluation – Macedonian
the Romanian market, it is especially impor- their shares on the BSE. Stock Exchange case” in competition of four research work.
tant the fact that the Government has estab- Beside the special mention the winner received prize of 60.000
lished, so called institutional funds, in which A total of EUR 750 mil- denars.
the participation was lower, especially the lion were raised through the The research work of Atanasovska was evaluated as an
participation of all major companies from the stock market. Initially aro- attempt to test the validity and the appliance of the most signifi-
sector for energy. The total participation of und 50 private companies cant model in financial science of one new market or developing
these institutional funds is estimated to one had declared their intention market, such as Macedonian. In the bottom of the dissertation is
to four million of euros. These institutional to go public and launch the question of how much the model of capital assets evaluation
funds were listed on the market with great IPO's in 2008, but many of is valid and to what extend it gives real and applicable results and
volume of shares. The fund should list all them have decided to post- at the same time the same is attempted to be tested using con-
major companies that are property of the pone their listing on the crete situation – Macedonian Stock Exchange. The author placed
state, as the companies for electric energy, BSE due to the global special accent on the connection between the expected assets
energetic companies, the gas producers and financial crisis and its re- inflow with certain risk, named “Beta”. The Commission set this
other companies. percussions on the Bulga- research work on the same level with the most high-quality
rian stock market. research works in finance field which can be found in eminent sci-
We believe that in the following couple of ence magazines.
years, the Government will increase its It is important to note
beliefs in privatization though IPO, but on the that 2007 was the first year - I hope that this research work will shift limits of recent meth-
other side, as a result of the pressure exer- of Bulgaria's membership in ods and analysis` techniques to one higher level and will be near-
cised by the institutional funds for participa- the European Union. Our er to world financial analysts – Atanasovska stated.
tion of the major companies, we will be too legislation is now almost As exclusively research work with high quality the Stock
busy and we will have a lot to consider. 100% harmonized with the Exchange separated Marjan Ivanovski`s research work in
EU Directives. We started Connection of Macedonian capital market with capital markets in
The Bulgarian monopolies will implementing MiFID (the the other economies in Europe.
Markets in Financial Instru-
be privatized through the Stock ments Directive) in Novem- In the race for the award for most transparent joint stock com-
Market ber 2007. With Bulgaria's pany listed on Macedonian Stock Exchange 38 joint stock compa-
entry in the EU our stock nies took part and the award Crystal Bell went to Komercijalna
In Bulgaria, the situation has been similar exchange is getting more banka AD Skopje.
to the situation in the other developing coun- and more involved in the - This award represents acknowledgement for our work so far
tries. The Initial Public Offerings weren’t pre- process of integration and in the domain of the on time and fully investment public briefing in
sented to the securities market until recently, consolidation of capital the Republic of Macedonia and we consider that this represents
and after the first successful story, they are markets in Europe. As a re- our long-term investment – stated the representative of
already having inflation of initial public offer- sult of our achievements, Komercijalna Banka, Goran Markovski.
ings. It is interesting to hear their experience. the BSE attracted the inter- The Commission praised the joint stock company Alkaloid AD
The Bulgarian Stock Market has achieved est of leading European Skopje for the quality information during 2007 which was in seri-
great results in 2007, and there are good rea- bourses and alliances of ous competition for best transparent company selection.
sons to believe that 2008 will also be a good bourses.
year for all participants on the capital market.
President of the five-member commission was Professor Dr.
A major step in this
Mrs. Bistra ILKOVA - Chief Executive direction was the signing Mihail Petkovski (Faculty of Economy), with its members: Profe-
Officer, Bulgarian Stock Exchange – Sofia. last year of an agreement ssor Dr. Jane Miljovski (New York college), assistant professor Dr.
The Bulgarian Stock Exchange achieved sig- between the Bulgarian Saso Arsov (Faculty of Economy), Ivan Steriev and Ilco Lazareski
nificant results in 2007 and there are good from the Macedonian Stock Exchange.
reasons to believe that 2008 will also be a continue to page 12
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18.04.2008 FRIDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW OF EVENTS
The two days visit of the delegation of the try, and with this acquiring the right to manage will pay 510 000 euros informs Dnevnik. The
European bank for reconstruction and develop- with them for the next 20 years. Seavus offer is three times higher than the offers
ment was without a doubt the most interesting That Macedonia is an interesting country for of the other companies that are participating on
event in all the printed media. On the meeting, the investing, have found the Italian businessmen, the two previously annulled public offers. At the
vice Prime Minister Zoran Stavreski together with whose delegation stayed in the country. – The Agency say that only Seavus had been qualified
the vice president of the EBOR Varel Freedman, entrepreneurs that are with me are interested to for an immediate agreement because the other
is agreed for the EBOR to secure 50 millions of invest in the living environment of the waters, to companies did not have any reference for suc-
euros as addition of the financial situation of the cooperate with the government at the developing cessfully implemented software.
project for construction and reconstruction of the of the energy sector for production of electricity, For a long time now on the Macedonian stock
regional and local roads with the World Bank, hydro energy and the possibilities of using the oil market there is an increase of the three stock
from which 70 millions of euros have already been as a possible source of energy, for construction of market indexes, say the regular stock market
granted. With this, the total amount for the con- apartments and the world known hotel in Skopje – report in Biznis. Namely, the Macedonian Stock
struction of the regional and local roads will cost stated the president of De Genaro group, Daniele market index - MBI–10 is 5.760.03 and marks an
120 millions of euros, which will provide improve- Julio De Genaro, adding that one of the Italian increase for 4.42%, MBID has increased for
ment of the total transport and infrastructure in businessmen from the delegation, which is owner 0.97% and OMB for 0.18%.
Macedonia. EBOR expressed readiness and deci- of seven hotels from the Sheraton and Hilton From the events in the region, interesting
siveness for the support of the development of the brands is interested in entering Macedonia. news is that the biggest Slovenian bank Nova
business in the private sector, attracting foreign The newspaper Vest, reports the claim of the Ljubljanska Banka NLB is announcing emission of
investments, working with the financial sector, in governor of the National Bank, Petar Goshev, that new shares because the increase of the capital in
order to help the development of the small banks. besides the early elections, the course of the shares. The total emission worth 300 millions of
The Financial Times Deutschland announced denar will stay stabile. On the strong speculations, euros will increase the capital in shares of the
that the German construction company Hohtif for the possible devaluation of the denar, Goshev bank to 11.2 percents.
JSC is interested in investing in the Skopje airport states that – the inflation will start to fall, but even The increase of the prices of the food and of
Aleksandar the Great. As reported by the today’s it stays higher, the stance of the National Bank is the fuels is the main reasons for the record-break-
issues of the papers, in the text it is stated that that there would be no devaluation. The Central ing inflation of the two biggest European
this company has already sent a letter of interest bank will keep the course as stabile. There are economies – the French and the German, informs
to the Macedonian government. It is also quoted plenty of reserves in currencies, i.e. over 1.5 bil- Nova Macedonia. Namely, France in March has
an announcement on a source of the Macedonian lions of dollars, and we have enough instruments had a record – breaking high inflation for 3.2 per-
government saying that the company Hohtif has if it would be necessary to intervene and to keep cent, which is the biggest leap since 1991, while
good chances for success in the agreement for the stability of the denar. the German state statistical office confirmed that
the Skopje airport. According to the plan of the The agency for electronic communication has the inflation in March in Germany has reached 3.1
Macedonian government, the best bidder will made an immediate agreement with the Seavus percent.
have to invest 300 millions of euros in expansion company for supplying the software for the trans-
and construction of the three airports in the coun- mitting service of the phone numbers for which
Starting from yesterday the Macedonian cooperation between Germany and Macedonia. ducers to win over the Croatian smokes were not
lambs are being exported on the Serbian market Newspapers also inform that despite this, the successful, because they were uncompetitive on
for the first time; inform Saturday’s editions of the German businessmen are interested in real- the market.
newspapers. Until the Orthodox Easter it has estate especially regarding the project which The early parliamentary elections in
been agreed for the Serbian merchants to pur- envisages for a large residential and business Macedonia will not have a negative influence of
chase a total of 6,000 lambs from Macedonia, center to be built in one part of the army barracks the business; neither this is going to stop the eco-
and as our traders explain the export in Serbia is Ilinden, which would include apartments, malls nomic activities in our country, Branko Azeski,
a result of the reduced placement in Greece. So and other facilities. president of the Economic Chamber, states for
far Serbia hasn’t been importing Macedonian Macedonian businessman Edmond Karliu today’s edition of Vecher. – However, it is normal
lamb because there was an administrative ban. will be one of the main financers in the largest that there would be a certain delay of the
In order to enter the country the meat shipments investment in Kosovo, worth 400 million euros for Government’s activities in our country. The capi-
were supposed to undergo customs procedure the construction of a large number of apartments tal investments realized by the Government are
for three days. Recently Serbian authorities intro- and business premises in the capitol of our north- going to be brought to a halt, but the remaining
duced new facilitating import measures. The total ern neighbor, Utrinski Vesnik conveys. The enter- economic process will continue at their normal
number of exported lamb is reduced, because ing of this powerful businessman on the civil course, because the business is becoming more
the sheep breeders do not sell the female lambs engineering market of Kosovo would certainly and more immune to the politics, Azeski consid-
as a result of the stimulations given by the mean getting solid deals and work for many ers.
Government. Statistic data on the other hand Macedonian construction companies, although Including the first quartile of this year KB
show that Macedonia annually exports around so far nobody mentions the potential candidates. First Open Pension Fund had 98.989 members,
3,000 tons of lamb. The entire foreign exchange The Croatian market will be open for the cig- it is said in the Funds’ announcement conveyed
inflow is around 11 million euros. arettes from Macedonia, is the headline of by Nova Makedonija. Compared to the same
The Germans are most interested in energy Dnevnik’s article, where you could read that this period in February, the number of new members
and construction of hydroelectric power plants, would be achieved if the demand of the EU is has increased for 1.315, stands in the fund’s
but they also show great interest for the infra- implemented, that means for Zagreb to abolish announcement for the results achieved in the first
structure of airports, roads and internet banking, the discriminatory taxes for import from other quartile. The total net incomes that the fund
Vice-prime Minister Zoran Stavreski said, after countries. Namely, as a result of the very high made are now 1.9 million denars, which is an
yesterday’s meeting of government representa- taxes, none of the cigarettes produced in our increase of 5,34 percent comparing to the month
tives with 20 German businessmen where they tobacco companies has been sold in Croatia so before.
discussed about the opportunities for economic far. The attempts of some of the Macedonian pro-
DNEVNIK
p.7 THE CROATIAN MARKET WILL OPEN UP FOR THE MACE- VECER
DONIAN CIGARETTES p.7 BUSINESS BECOMES IMMUNE TO THE POLICY
p.7 MACEDONIAN BUSINESSMAN WILL INVEST 400 US MILLION
DOLLARS IN KOSOVO VREME
p.7 THE DOMESTIC LAMB ON THE SERBIAN MARKET FOR THE p.7 THE GOVERNMENT MUST NOT INVITE NEW TEN-DERS
FIRST TIME p.7 GERMANS INTEREST ABOUT A LOT OF PROJECTS
p.7 NOTE OF PROTEST TO GREECE BECAUSE OF MAT
p.7 BUSINESS CENTER WILL SPRING UP NEAR THE BARRACKS VEST
ILINDEN p.8 SERBIA IMPORTS MACEDONIAN LAMB FOR THE FIRST
TIME
UTRINSKI VESNIK
p.7 MACEDONIAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES WILL PROFIT NOVA MAKEDONIJA
FROM THE BIGGEST INVESTMENT IN KOSOVO?! p.5 COOPERATION WITHOUT CONCRETE DEALS
p.7 DOES REK BITOLA WORKS ON COAL OR HEATING OIL? p.5 FIRST PENSION FUND REACHES 90.000 USERS
p.7 THE GERMANS WISH TO INVEST IN THE ENERGY SECTOR p.6 OIL PRICE INCREASE CONTINUES
AND IN A BUSINESS CENTER p.6 GRANIT FOUNDS ANOTHER COMPANY
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14.04.-19.04.2008 MONDAY-SATURDAY
1. SHORT REVIEW IN THE WEEKLY MAGAZINES
KAPITAL p.48 RETAIL TRADE LAST YEAR INCREASED BY 11%
p.11 NEW PRODUCER OF OIL DERIVATES Food and fuels products constitute over 60 % of the turnover. During
Capital Oil-LLC – is the name of the new company founded last week 2007, the retail trade in Macedonia has been increased by 17.1% in relation
which deals with oil derivates production. to 2006.
p.11 SRGAN KRSTIC NEW MEMBER IN THE MANAGING BOARD OF p.48 BALKAN IS GOOD FOR INVESTMENTS
EUROSTANDARD BANKA “Political situation dominates in the texts about the Balkan, but behind
Srgan Krtic, the first general director of Postenska Banka entered the the complex politics, there is growth of the trade, investments, economy, and
managing board of Eurostandard bank last week. wages, and the common investment climate continuously improves, estimat-
p.11 VESNA SAP HAS NEW OWNERS ed Ernhard Busek, special coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast
Vesna Sap, company for starter batteries production in the past known Europe in authorial text for “Financial Times”.
as Zletovo has new owner and larger owner structure. p.62 TECHNOLOGY CAN SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE THE LIFE AND
p.12 ALKALOID TO DONATE EQUIPMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC THE BUSINESS
RESEARCH ACTIVITY Since the middle of 2004, Goran Radman is one of the fifth regional
The purpose of last week`s agreement by Ss.Cyril and Methodius presidents of Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), especially
University and Alkaloid is cooperation in order to stimulate and to enable joint responsible for Southeast region.
implementation of projects and other cooperation forms in order to accom-
plish mutual goals of the academic and business community. MAKEDONSKO SONCE
p.12 GREEK VETO FOR MACEDONIAN LAMB TOO, MORE ON p.35 DECENT OFFER WITH BIG COMPENSATION
DOMESTIC MARKET – 143164 Employees of “Makedonski Telekomunikacii” with at least five years of
Greece doesn`t want Macedonian lamb for the approaching eastern hol- length of service will be able, within one month to apply for voluntarily depar-
idays. Last two weeks the import of lamb meet to our southern neighbor had ture with compensation from the company.
been fully stopped. 60 thousand lambs on Macedonian farms remained p.36 BLACK METALLURGY IN BIG PAIN
unsold. These days, representatives of domestic metallurgy giants have openly
p.12 ZOELLICK: THE INCREASED FOOD PRICES ARE NOT TEMPO- asked for better conditions for market economy. For them especially impor-
RARY tant is the energy support, and they also ask for state aid pursuant to the
Increased food prices are not temporary event, and will probably main- National program for reconstruction of the steel industry.
tain during the next years, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank
Robert Zoellick stated. Increased demand and biofuel`s utilization as alterna- FORUM
tive source of energy are gone. p.9 EXPANSION OF SEAVUS
p.14 THE WEAK DOLLAR A REASON FOR SHOPPING TOURISM IN Until the end of the year, the development center of Seavus in Nish,
NEW YORK Serbia will increase the number of employees to 70. The company at the
Due to fall of the dollar in relation to other currencies, New York experi- same period plans an expansion of its cooperation with the information –
ences new type of tourist boom. technological faculties in Nish, with which it will grow in a leading center for
p.22 MACEDONIAN ECONOMY LOSSES THE FIGHT ON THE the development of the information technology in this part of Serbia.
DOMESTIC MARKET TOO!? p.26 NIP HAS BEEN “DYING” FOR FIVE YEARS
Macedonia increases the volume of its trade with foreign countries, but Probably very few people remember the 12 loss-making firms for which
increases its trade deficit too. destiny Macedonia had to sign FESAL-arrangement with the IMF. Among
p.27 MACEDONIAN STOCK EXCHANGE EUPHORIA ENDS. them was the once fortress NIP Nova Makedonija, in which secret chambers,
The price correction lasts half a year now, global financial markets are according to unwritten memoirs, the personnel compositions of then
unstable, due to which they`ve stopped spreading positive energy a key fac- Executive Council of Assembly of SRM had been tailored.
tor for our region`s growth. p. 28 INVESTOR ACTIVISM
p.36 SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN INSURERS “AT WAR” FOR THE On the ninth annual conference of the Macedonian Stock Exchange last
INSURANCE BUSINESS IN MACEDONIA! week, several scenarios on the development of events were stated out, relat-
One year ago Macedonian insurance market was not so popular subject ed to the share prices until the end of the year.
for discussions among financial business circles, but this year becomes pop- p.29 LAST YEAR’S BOOM IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN
ular in terms of its further development. After the last year’s boom on Macedonian Stock Exchange, when there
p.42 BUCIM WITH BEST RESULTS SO FAR was euphoric rush- who didn’t buy didn’t get, this year the Stock Exchange
The mine Bucim from Radovis plans to increase the production during got affected by the apathetic period where usually the bear is the one domi-
next year and for this purpose it intends to invest over 4 million dollars in new nating and not the bull.
equipment. p.31 IN KNOCKOUT AGAIN
p.42 PRINTING HOUSE KIRO DANDARO INVESTS THREE MILLION The second stock exchange week of April started peacefully and without
EUROS ON EQUIPMENT - The printing house of Bitola Kiro Dandaro plans any big expectations. On Monday there was reservation both with the buyers
to invest around three million euros the next two years in new machine and and the ones making the offers, with realized turnover of 21 million denars
equipment supply. “An investment of one million euros is planned for this and slight increase of MBI-10 of 0,73%.
year from which the bigger part is already realized. We plan to spent two mil- p.33 ALKALOID SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH UNIVERSITY OF SS.
lion euros next year for new machines and equipment”, Dragi Milosevski, CYRIL AND METHODIUS
director of the printing house stated. Alkaloid will sponsor scientific researches in the pharmaceutical area of
p.43 KRKA OPENED NEW BUSINESS CENTER IN MACEDONIA the state university of Ss. Cyril and Methodius.
Slovenian pharmacy company Krka on 1.907 square meters has opened
new business- store centre in Skopje. According to Jose Colaric, president of DENES
Krka`s managing board, the company by making this move marked the 14 p.5 Croatian Ingra became owner of the majority share package in
year annual presence on Macedonian market. Mavrovo. Croatians bought another 33 percent of the construction compa-
p.44 EASTERN CREDIT FOR THE CITIZENS FROM UNI BANK ny’s capital- before announcing the public offer on taking over the company,
On the occasion of the approaching eastern holidays, Easter and 1, May, they owned 28 percent of Mavrovo’s capital.
UNI Bank created non-purpose credit for citizens. The procedure about lend- p.21 POWER STROKES ON THE STATE BUDGET
ing these credits is very simple and quick and it can be approved without In only one month, another two serious problems occurred with the sys-
additional commission for the credit in this promotional period. tem of the Macedonian electricity producer.
p.45 OVER TWO MILLION EUROS ABOUT SOFTWARE RECORDING p.24 GOVERNMENT NOT TO GET INTO UNPRODUCTIVE SPENDING
THE MACEDONIAN PRODUCTS! The current state in economy, before the arrangement, got into the mon-
The implementation of the new software within fiscal registers will cost etary experts’ focus, several weeks before announcing the early parliamen-
the Macedonian private businesses at least two million euros. The software tary elections.
will record how many Macedonian products are produced in Macedonia.
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PAST WEEK IN THE TOKEN OF...
ny within the Deutsche Telekom Group that will
Loans for improving transport infrastructure follow the new T-brand architecture in telecom-
munication industry. By accepting the new
brand, Macedonian users will have an opportu-
After the business climate and the tax This week was also marked by the assess- nity of enjoying the privileges T-Brand offers in
reforms, Macedonia is among the best in ment from the popular independent consulting over 50 countries around the world.
Europe and the world. This assessment, given firm Standard and Purs, which doesn’t expect From the domestic news to be marked is
by the president of the World Bank, Shigeo the early elections in Macedonia to cause sig- the one that all exporting or importing compa-
Katsu, on the IMF and the World Bank’s spring nificant deviations from the political course nies will be able to charge duties on their prod-
session, opened the last week which in the print required for starting negotiations for our coun- uct on their own if they possess approval for
media went mostly in the sign of the internation- try’s membership in EU. simplified customs procedures. Among the top
al financial institutions and companies. From Financial Times Deutschland paper reports news is also the one saying that the campaign
the same place came also the news that the news that German construction company for increasing the sell of Macedonian products
Macedonia will receive loan of about 70 million Hohtiff was interested in investing in Skopje air- has the traders’ support, but they do not agree
euros from the World Bank for construction of port Aleksandar Veliki, and according from to finance it with their money. According to
new and reconstruction of the existing roads in sources from Macedonian Government, the them, if the idea is the Government to statisti-
the country. Together with the 50 million euros best bidder will have to invest 300 million euros cally determine how much the Macedonian
that the European Bank for Reconstruction and in expansion and construction of the three air- products are being sold, then the Government
Development will provide, which was agreed on ports in the country, which will earn him the right should cover the expenses for this change.
their delegation’s visit in Macedonia, the total to manage them for 20 years. Otherwise, they will increase the prices of their
amount for improvement of the entire transport The renaming of Makedonski Telekomuni- products.
infrastructure in Macedonia will be of about 120 kacii is the news that was reported by all print
million euros. media. Macedonian Telekom is the first compa-
W E E K LY R E V I E W O F M A C E D O N I A N S T O C K E X C H A N G E
period 14.04. - 18.04.2008
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