On today’s forum “Business Connectivity of foreign investors in the country with domestic companies that have the potential to become their suppliers”, Vice Premier and Finance Minister Zoran Stavreski appealed banks and financial institutions to involve actively in the communication between domestic and foreign companies for the purpose of providing soft loans.
- The key question is how Macedonian companies can better integrate in the chain of foreign firms, to transform to micro level as macroeconomic effects, in the increase of the added value by the presence of foreign investments, Stavreski said.
According to him, foreign and domestic companies should be compatible and not to compete.
He noted that last year there were € 50 million of services from the Macedonian to foreign companies which is, as he said, a serious and encouraging figure, adding that the predictions say that by 2015 the number of employees in foreign firms operating in free zones, will double from current 6,500 and will reach about 13,000.
Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Peshevski called for cooperation of domestic and foreign companies to become one of the key segments. Domestic firms to bring technologies, management, research and development to the required level.