In the new annual publication Top 500 published by NIN magazine, Victoria Group is among the first ten best ranked companies in Serbia, according to its business results achieved in the 2012, occupying a leading position in the agricultural sector and third place in the food industry in Serbia.
Today, representatives of Victoria Group and the Emergency Centre officially opened the renovated Emergency Department of Urology, at the Clinical Centre of Serbia. This grant from Victoria Group has enabled the construction of two state-of-the-art operating theatres, where liver and kidney transplantations will be performed, as well as an intensive care unit for the post-operative recovery of patients.
Smart Kolektiv and the Forum of Business Leaders have organised for the third time the handing out of awards for corporate volunteering for 2013, with the purpose of identifying and highlighting employee engagement programmes that contributed the most to the development of local communities in the previous year. On that occasion, all the participants in the major volunteering drive titled “Our Belgrade”, held in June in Kalemegdan, received recognitions.
Victoria Group has awarded Ivana Španović and Emir Bekrić each with gift cheques for RSD 570,000 for their success achieved so far in sport. On this occasion, an agreement on cooperation with the Athletics Federation of Serbia was signed regarding a three-year sponsorship for Amela Terzić’s preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Victoria Group is the main sponsor of 135th seminar of European Association of Agricultural Economists, organized in Belgrade from 28 to 30 August. The conference gathered over 150 domestic and foreign experts in the field of agricultural economy. Main topic of this year's lectures and workshops are Doha negotiations, challenges of global agricultural trade and future of multilateral trading system in WTO.
Victoria Group traditionally supports the popular festival Gospojina in Novi Bečej, organized for the 20th time this year from 22 to 27 August. The event gathers a large number of visitors from all around Serbia, giving them the opportunity to taste fish soup on cooking contest, watch the horse carriage show or enjoy the tamburitza music. Many famous musicians from the Balkans region will be performing this year as well. Over 200,000 visitors are expected this year.
During the official visit to Serbia, the delegation from the Republic of Uganda visited Victoria Group company. The delegation, lead by Mr. Hon Sam Kutesa, Minister of the External Affairs of Uganda, accompanied by Mumtaz Kassam, empowered Minister in the Embassy of Uganda in Rome; Jovan Latinčić, honorary Consul of Serbia in Campala; as well as Nkayivu Ssenabulya, Personal Assistent to the Minister, visited Sojaprotein factory in Becej as well the corporate centre of Victoria Group in Belgrade where they were welcomed by the General Manager, Zoran Mitrović.
Victoria Group has donated 100 anti-hail rockets to the Ministry of Internal Affairs – Sector for Emergency Management in order to protect citizens and domestic agricultural crops from storms. Anti-hail rockets of 6km range will enable timely response in case of hail storms.
Victoria Group has supported traditional event "Games Without Frontiers for Children with Disabilities" one more time. The event, organized for the ninth year in a row by humanitarian organization "MaliVelikiLjudi", took place in Bojčin Forest gathering over 100 children from ten social protection institutions across Serbia: Kulina, Stamnica, Sremčica, Kolevka-Subotica, Veternik, Bela Crkva, SOS Kamenica and Šabac.
The largest SAP annual conference – SAP Forum “Experience the future of business” was organized in Belgrade, covering the latest innovations and global trends in IT business solutions. After the keynotes of Simon Kaluža, General Manager of SAP Central and Eastern Europe, and Vojislav Genić, General Manager of SAP South-Eastern Europe, participants were familiarized with the possibilities of SAP applications in support of business development strategies, as well as with clients’ experiences.