Serbia, your next business destination.

In the highly dynamic and interconnected world of global business having paradigms of economic power being drawn and redrawn relentlessly, with reduced appetence for risk exposure and propensity to invest, Serbia has succeeded in maintaining its position as one of the leading foreign direct investment recipients in the world, proving that an unremitting desire to seek performance, improvements and productivity gains doubled by a sound economic policy is still the script for success and profitability.

„Serbia tops the Greenfield FDI Performance Index 2019 The south-east European country is ranked number one in the annual study by fDi Intelligence, a Financial Times.“

Well-developed business environment and openness to foreign investment, Serbia is definitely a business destination to bear in mind for any enterprise considering international projects.

„U.S. investors in Serbia are generally positive, highlighting the country’s strategic location, well-educated and affordable labor force, excellent English language skills, investment incentives, and free trade arrangements with key markets, particularly the EU.
Generally, U.S. investors enjoy a level playing field with their Serbian and foreign competitors.“ U.S. Department of State,2019 Investment Climate Statements”

 

• Stability – Serbia has achieved and maintained full price stability, exchange rate stability and financial stability, as well as political stability.
• Human resources – besides its high levels of English speakers, Serbia ranks 27th out of 157 countries in the World Bank’s Human Capital Index, the highest in the Balkan region.
• Financial Benefits and Incentives– in the past two years, the Serbian government has
  increased financial incentives, for example, special tax relief for large investments, by applying double deduction tax for every euro spent on R&D by a company in Serbia, and by offering a 30% tax credit for investments in start-up companies engaged in tech innovation.
• Competitive banking sector – The banking sector in Serbia certainly comes under the
  category of one of the most stable, most developed, adequately capitalized and well-controlled segments of the national economy.
  „The European Commission has put Serbia on the list of third countries whose supervisory and regulatory arrangements in the banking sector are equivalent to the corresponding rules applied in the European Union (EU),the Commission said in a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union.“
• Customs Free Access to 1.1bn Consumers– Serbia can serve as a manufacturing hub for duty-free exports to a market of almost 1.1bn people that includes the European Union, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Southeast Europe, the European Free Trade Agreement members, and the USA.

IT – Serbia’s technology cluster is gaining momentum and attracting FDI, for both its software and hardware expertise. Leading global technology companies including Microsoft, IBM, Schneider Electric, SKF Group, Adobe, Oracle, Google, HP, SAP, Siemens, Cisco and Ericsson have set up operations in the country or licensed outsourcing services to local firms.