Italy’s Aunde opens factory in Jagodina

JAGODINA – Italy’s company Aunde opened a factory for the production of automobile seats and technical textiles for the automotive industry in Jagodina on Saturday.

A ribbon cutting ceremony to inaugurate the opening of the factory in the central Serbian city was attended by Prime Minister of the outgoing Serbian government Ivica Dacic, Transport Minister Aleksandar Antic, Italian Ambassador to Serbia Giuseppe Manco, the Aunde Serbia director and one of the Aunde owners, Enrico Vergnano, and Jagodina City Assembly Chairman Dragan Markovic.

Dacic said that Serbia will carry on with its EU bid as it is the only guarantee of economic development, adding that Serbia will continue creating conditions favorable to investors.

The prime minister said that Ambassador Manco will be remembered for the fact that Italy overtook Russia and Germany and emerged as Serbia’s number one foreign trade partner during his term as ambassador.
“This primarily resulted from Fiat’s expansion in Kargujevac, but also other projects, and there are hundreds of them underway across Serbia, which show that economic cooperation between Italy and Serbia is developing in a very good direction,” said Dacic.

The Aunde Italia Group’s project is a several million euros investment, and the plant, designed for 300 employees, was build with expansion in mind.

The Serbian government subsidized the construction of the factory in the Corridor 10 industrial zone providing EUR 6,000 per employee, and local firms from Jagodina and elsewhere in Serbia were contracted for the works.

The contract for the construction of the factory in Jagodina was signed in the Jagodina City Assembly on November 28, 2012, and the works kicked off in...

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