Delta to enter Slovenian market

Delta Holding has reached a pre-contract agreement to build a 200,000 sqm shopping mall in Ljubljana on the premises of the Stozice Sports Center. The company says that the investment is worth EUR 242.5mn. Delta to enter Slovenian market The shopping mall, whose opening is planned for 2010, will be built by Delta’s partner Grep, which is responsible for Stozice’s construction. The project itself was Delta’s own brainchild, and the Serbian company will buy the shopping mall upon its completion. The pre-contract agreement was signed by Uros Ogrin on behalf of Grep and Delta Real Estate’s Dejan Racic. Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovic and Delta owner Miroslav Miskovic also attended the signing. Both Jankovic and Miskovic expressed their satisfaction that the deal had been signed. In a statement to Beta on his company’s commercial success, Miskovic said that he was “happy and I think that it is very important that Delta has come to Slovenia.” Miskovic said that his company’s arrival on the Slovenian market was a big moment for Delta, and that the shopping mall would be one of the company’s biggest investments. Jankovic, the former CEO of Mercator, said that “Delta’s arrival in the EU, or in Slovenia if you wish, is exceptionally important for Ljubljana and Slovenia, but especially for Serbia.” “Mr. Miskovic is thus accepting EU standards, making the best offer” for the construction of the biggest shopping center in the region for EUR 242mn, he added. Delta went head-to-head with Austrian Supernova in the final round of the project tender. Delta already operates in Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, and is the second Serbian company to enter the Slovenian market after ComTrade, which recently bought Slovenian Hermes Softlab.

Delta to enter Slovenian market

The shopping mall, whose opening is planned for 2010, will be built by Delta’s partner Grep, which is responsible for Stožice’s construction. The project itself was Delta’s own brainchild, and the Serbian company will buy the shopping mall upon its completion.

The pre-contract agreement was signed by Uroš Ogrin on behalf of Grep and Delta Real Estate’s Dejan Racić. Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković and Delta owner Miroslav Mišković also attended the signing.

Both Janković and Mišković expressed their satisfaction that the deal had been signed.

In a statement to Beta on his company’s commercial success, Mišković said that he was “happy and I think that it is very important that Delta has come to Slovenia.”

Mišković said that his company’s arrival on the Slovenian market was a big moment for Delta, and that the shopping mall would be one of the company’s biggest investments.

Janković, the former CEO of Mercator, said that “Delta’s arrival in the EU, or in Slovenia if you wish, is exceptionally important for Ljubljana and Slovenia, but especially for Serbia.”

“Mr. Mišković is thus accepting EU standards, making the best offer” for the construction of the biggest shopping center in the region for EUR 242mn, he added.

Delta went head-to-head with Austrian Supernova in the final round of the project tender.

Delta already operates in Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, and is the second Serbian company to enter the Slovenian market after ComTrade, which recently bought Slovenian Hermes Softlab.