48 BILLIONAIRES FROM SERBIA AMONG THE 100 RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE REGION

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In its New Year's edition, Nedeljnik published a list of the 100 richest people in the region of the former Yugoslavia, in which the first ten places are occupied by businessmen from Serbia and Croatia.

The hundred richest businessmen in the countries of the former SFRY (without Slovenia) are worth 69 billion euros. Serbia's 48 billionaires are worth 33 billion euros, while Croatia's 27 billionaires are worth 24 billion euros, according to the list.

The list of the 100 richest people in the region was compiled by experts from two renowned consulting firms working on the New York Stock Exchange. They used the most authoritative multipliers from the New York University Stern School of Business (and comparative companies) and included in the analysis the results of market transactions in the region and the world.

The list does not show how much money businessmen have but how much their companies are worth and how much money they could potentially get if they sold them.

The list includes 18 companies whose estimated value is over one billion euros.

The first ten spots on the list are shared by businessmen from Croatia and Serbia:

1. The richest man in the region is Dubravko Grgić, the first man of the Agram Group from Croatia, estimated at 2.8 billion euros. The Agram Group brings together twenty companies that deal with insurance, banking, leasing, and other financial services. The corporation operates in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other European countries. Grgić is a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he started his business, but today he lives and works in Croatia. He is known to the public as the "King of Insurance".
2. Miodrag Kostić, MK Group, estimated at 2.7 billion euros, Serbia. Last year, he took second place on the List of the 100 richest in Serbia, as well as this year on the List of the 100 richest in the region. His company used the difficult 2022 business year to grow to 2,461,804,541 euros to 2,779,323,438 euros.
3. Miroslav Mišković, Delta Holding, estimated at 2.7 billion euros, Serbia. Delta Holding operates in the sectors of agribusiness, export, import, representation of foreign companies, distribution of consumer goods, car sales, real estate development and development of new technologies. Delta Holding realizes its business through five organizational units: Delta Agrar Group, Delta Food Processing, Delta Real Estate Group, Delta Distribution and the division of new technologies.
4. Silvio and Robert Kutić and Izabel Jelenić, Infobip (3.5 billion euros) Croatia. It was founded in the spring of 2006 by brothers Silvio and Isabel. In addition to them, the co-owner of Infobip since 2020 is the investment fund One Equity Partners, which invested 200 million dollars.
5. Mate Rimac, Rimac Group (2.3 billion euros), Croatia. Mate is an entrepreneur and innovator who became known on a global scale as the manufacturer of the fastest electric car in the world. Like some of his world-famous colleagues, Rimac also started from a garage, less than a decade and a half ago. He founded Rimac automobili in 2009.
6. Emil Tedeski, Atlantic Group (1.6 billion euros), Croatia. Emil Tedeski is the founder and majority owner of Atlantic Group. He is the president of the Atlantic Management Board and the owner of 50.2 percent of the shares in the company.
7. Petar Matijević, MI Matijević (1.5 billion euros), Serbia. Petar Matijević is the owner of the production and trade company Industrija mesa Matijević, whose main activity is the production and trade of meat and meat products. The company has 106 companies in the fields of agriculture, trade, real estate and catering. Matijević agrar cultivates about 37,000 hectares of agricultural land in the territory of Vojvodina and about 2,500 hectares in Croatia.
8. Dejan Čakajac and Jadranka Stepanović, Mozzart (1.3 billion euros), Serbia. The company Mozzart is a leader in the field of games of chance and sports betting in the region of Southeast Europe. It was founded in 2001 and with around 1,000 payment points it is present on the market of Serbia, Republika Srpska, North Macedonia, Croatia, Malta, Romania, Kenya, Colombia, Ghana and Nigeria.
9. Dragan Šolak, United Group (1.3 billion euros), Serbia. Dragan Šolak started his business in 2000 as a small cable company, since 2012 he has been operating as United Group. Since then, it has grown through numerous acquisitions, including cable operators, media content production platforms and mobile service providers, and has expanded across the region. The market in Serbia accounts for 10 percent of the Group's revenue.
10. Mile Ćurković, Plodine (1.3 billion euros), Croatia. Plodine is one of the largest supermarket chains in the region. They have 112 supermarkets throughout Croatia.

Source: mondo.rs, bankar.me