Free land for new investments in Ruma - Albon, Calzedonia, Insert to build production facilities in autumn 2012

(Ruma)

The Government of Serbia made a decision on Thursday (5 April 2012) to allow Ruma to allot a building land for free to three significant investors that are ready to start the construction of their facilities, which will result in the creation of 700 new jobs over the next year, said Ruma Mayor Goran Vukovic.

As he stressed, these investors intend to start the construction as early as October or November because they are bound by contracts to deliver their products.

These three investors are two foreign and one Serbian company.

The English company Albon will invest EUR 7.5 million in the construction of a new 6,500-square-meter facility in Ruma to produce spare parts for Ford Motor. This company has obtained a 5-hectare land from the municipality, and it will employ 200 workers at the factory.

Italy's Calzedonia, a specialized lingerie manufacturer, has received a 2.5-hectare building land. Italians want to build a 5,000-square-meter facility worth EUR 6 million and employ 267 workers at it.

The third investor that has got a building land is Belgrade-based Insert, a fashion footwear manufacturer, which makes shoes for its partners Chanel, Chistian Dior, Prada, Valentino, Sergio Rossi...

Insert currently makes shoes at a rented production hall of the former factory Kluz in Ruma, but it now wants to built its own factory.

- We've obtained a 1.5-hectare land from the municipality to build a new production facility spanning between 3,000 and 4,000 square meters on it. About EUR 1.5 million will be invested in the construction and equipping of the factory that will employ 180 people - Zarko Kojic, the owner of Insert, says to eKapija.