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Victoria Group launched its corporate page on Facebook this week. Everyone who is interested in the activities and the production and service portfolio of the company and who are present on this highly popular networking platform can “like” the Victoria Group page and closely follow what the company posts. The most important news and current topics will be published on the corporate page, along with numerous interesting titbits and lesser known facts about Victoria Group and its members, and especially consumer brands.

The Forum for Sustainable Communities, organised by the Business Leaders Forum and the Smart Kolektiv, with the support of USAID and ISC, was held in Belgrade on 27 June. The conference brought together representatives of the civil, public and private sectors who discussed existing intersectoral cooperation and possibilities for its improvement.

The 55th International Consultation on the Production and Processing of Oilseeds, a traditional meeting of oil producers, was held in Herceg Novi this year, on 16 to 20 June. The event was organised by the “Industrial Crops” business community, the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad and the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technology.

EastAgri 2014, an annual conference organised by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), was held in Belgrade on 18 and 19 June. The central topic of the conference – how to achieve quality and quantity in food production in Europe and Central Asia – brought together the highest-level officials of the Serbian Government, international institutions involved in the development of agriculture and agroindustry, and representatives of the agribusiness companies that operate in the region.

The company Victoria Group has donated over 15.5 million Dinars so far in assistance for the most vulnerable of our fellow citizens and for repairing the damage caused by the recent floods in Serbia.

As a part of International Green Week, Global Forum on Food and Agriculture was held last week in Berlin, in organization of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of the Republic of Germany.
The main topic of the conference was agricultural development and food provision - participants discussed how agriculture and rural areas can deal with economic, ecological and social challenges more efficiently.

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.

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.