Agrokomerc

Former logo of the company

Agrokomerc was a Yugoslavian food producer based in Velika Kladusa in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The company was known nationally and was considered one of the largest food producers in the country and one of the largest companies in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian republic . It was last under the leadership of Fikret Abdić .

Companies

The company was founded in 1969 by a local cooperative consisting of several local farmers in Maljevac , Croatia . The company was later moved to its current headquarters in Velika Kladuša. The initial Agromerkantlija , as it was called until it was renamed in 1972, owned several farms in Dubaljevo, Dubrave, Pećigrad and Šumatac in 1971 with the help of investments of 18 million Yugoslav dinars . At its best in the 1970s, Agrokomerc employed between 7,000 and 13,000 people.

During the Bosnian War , the company was considered to be the economic foundation of the regime in the breakaway Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, which was proclaimed by Abdić in 1993 .

After the war

On May 4, 1999, there was the part of former workers who held on that date 75% of the company shares, aspirations, shattered in the war Company as udruženje za zaštitu nezaposlenih dioničara Agrokomerc Velika Kladusa neuzugründen and continue. The new company could no longer build on its pre-war economic success, so that it entered into several collaborations with local and national companies such as B. sought the Gadžo Komerc from Sarajevo , which in collaboration with this company exported Tops brand biscuits to the United States , Canada and Australia .

Today the company is managed and offered for sale by the Agency for Privatization of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (APFBiH). Privatization is proving to be difficult due to a lack of buyers due to outstanding wage payments and debts .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ante Cuvalo: Abdic, Fikret (1934-) . In: The A to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Scarecrow Press , 1877, ISBN 978-0-8108-7647-7 , pp. 1 (English, Google Books [accessed September 14, 2019]).