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Copy linkFirst wholesale market in Serbia in location of Belgrade's Kvantaš market - reform by Belgrade-based public company "Gradske pijace"
(Dragan Pušara)
Belgrade is going to get the first wholesale market in which over 250 traders from all around Serbia will be operating, and the project will be forwarded to the city organs by the end of the month. The wholesale market, the kind of which almost all European cities with more than 1m inhabitants have, will be built at 18 ha in the location of the Kvantaš market.
- We have finished the feasibility study for the wholesale market in association with the Faculty of Economy in Belgrade, and we will forward it to the city organs in about ten days. We will also suggest to the City that we should form strategic partnership with some European wholesale market – said Dragan Pušara, the CEO of public company "Gradske pijace", and added that the first contracts for realization of the wholesale market project are expected in "Gradske pijace" in 2010.
He said that the Kvantaš market would cease to exist because its turnover was not being registered and because the performance of the import lobby was not good for either manufacturers or the budget, so that Serbia's annual losses on the basis of unpaid taxes in such markets in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš ranged between 7 and 12 billion RSD.
The wholesale market should be the crucial link in the chain of supply of provisions on the territory of Belgrade and Serbia, and each municipality from Serbia should have one or two traders in the Belgrade wholesale market.
The CEO of "Gradske pijace" pointed out that the existence of organized place for wholesale trading would enable more efficient trade in fruits and vegetables, reduction of grey economy, decrease in prices of products, development of agricultural production, as well as organized appearance in export of competitive agricultural products.
Pušara pointed out that the modernization and reform of the city markets was necessary in order for them to survive in modern circumstances of trade and keep their traditional role.
He said that "Gradske pijace" was conducting the reform "concretely and without compromise", and that the reform would include construction of the wholesale market, reconstruction of markets, introduction of order and higher level of hygiene, more efficient control of quality of provisions, lower prices and better offer.
That company registered net profit of 266m RSD in the first nine months of year 2009, which is seven times more that in the same period last year. The city markets had 30,000 more rented so-called "counter-days" than the last year.
