Ruma to have all people employed until 2020 - Municipality negotiates with investors planning to hire over 1,000 people per factory

(Ruma)

According to the Ruma Development Strategy, this municipality should have all its inhabitants employed until 2020. Goran Vukovic, the mayor of Ruma, says it is even possible to achieve this goal earlier because they are, at this moment, "in very serious negotiations with several big investors who are interested in hiring over 1,000 workers per factory".

- The Danish-Chinese investor Forc Co has notified me in an email that it has decided to build a memo foam factory in Ruma. The investment will be implemented in 2013 and they claim that the factory will employ 1,500 workers. We will provide a building land and all the required infrastructure – says the mayor of Ruma.

Vukovic stresses that the Serbian government made a decision on Thursday (5 April 2012) to allow the municipality to allot a building land for free to three investors that are ready to start the construction of their facilities and create 700 new jobs in Ruma. These investors in question are England's Albon, Italy's Calzedonia and Belgrade-based Insert.

- According to the data provided by the National Employment Agency, there are currently 5,500 unemployed people in Ruma. Our aim, which is also outlined in the Development Strategy, is that Ruma has no unemployed persons in 2020. I believe that we will achieve this goal even before that time thanks to aforementioned 700 new jobs and about 1,500 jobs that the memory foam manufacturer has promised to create. Also, an international textile manufacturer, which insists on remaining anonymous, has announced its arrival in Ruma, claiming it will employ 3,000 people here.

At this moment, the municipality of Ruma has over 300 hectares of land to offer to investors. As Vukovic explains, a necessary spatial and planning documentation is already provided for all that land, a major portion of which is equipped with all the required infrastructure.

Goran Vukovic (Photo: ekapija.com)

- At this moment, the municipality can meet every request of any investor and offer an equipped building land in order to help the investor implement its investment in as short time as possible. Our intention was to create such municipal administration that would make all administrative problems easy to solve and enable the municipality to skip certain bureaucratic obstacles usually faced by investors.

In order to bring Ruma closer to investors, the municipality has started granting incentives to companies employing a certain number of workers and become one of the municipalities that have a favorable business environment and provide maximum incentives of EUR 10,000 per newly created job.

- Ruma has decided to send some investors to rural areas within the municipality in order to make it possible for local inhabitants to get a job and stay in their village.

Slovenia's Cablex Group, ICM Electronics, Europarket and Ekoterm Ignjatovic have built their production facilities in Hrtkovci, Nikinci, Platicevo and other settlements in this municipality in Srem.

Belgrade-based Angler opened a pellet manufacturing plant in Hrtkovci on Friday (6 April 2012), announcing that it would also build a power plant worth EUR 15 million in cooperation with a consortium of Czech companies, whereas a EUR 12 million pet food factory should be built in association with Angler's partners from France. Angler expects to employ over 200 people at its new facilities. Yu Pellet currently employs 40 workers, 30 people should get a job at the future power plant, whereas the pet food factory should have between 150 and 200 workers.

Ivana Bezarevic