The Coca-Cola System company announced today that it has invested 3.5 million euros in the Vlasinka water factory and local infrastructure and improved the economic and tourist potentials of that area.
The Minister in charge of the development of underdeveloped municipalities, Ivica Toncev, said that new investments in the water factory Vlasinka directly affect the development of economic potentials, opening new jobs and keeping young people to live and work in the places where they were born.
“The long-term successful partnership between the municipalities of Surdulica and Coca-Cola has shown how important continuous and intensive cooperation between local governments and large companies is for the development of the local environment, economic development and better life of citizens,” Toncev said.
The General Manager of the company Coca Cola HBC Serbia, Svetoslav Atanasov, said that such investments will contribute to the expansion of the business of that factory and that it will inevitably have a positive impact on employment and the development of the local community.
“In the past 15 years, 15.5 million euros have been invested in the Vlasinka factory in all aspects of business, from production, capacity expansion, staff development, infrastructure, to marketing and promotion of the area as an exceptional tourist destination,” it is stated in a statement, Nova reports.
