Competition for renting Beogradska industrija piva halted

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The second attempt to rent Beogradska industrija piva ( BIP ) failed because the Agency for licensing of trustees in bankruptcy (ALSU) withdrew advertisement for bids for business and technical cooperation published March 9, Novosti reports.

As this newspapers unofficially finds out, competition was halted a few days before the deadline (March 22) and there is still no official notification from ALSU or the Ministry of economy about the reasons competition was canceled for.

- We do not know real reasons for the annulment of ads on lease but we heard there were more serious candidates who applied and for which it was not planned - one of the representatives of minor shareholders Vojislav Corovic said.

With bankruptcy of brewery, shareholders left without rights and assets and current trustee in bankruptcy ALSU, renewed an earlier idea of ​​renting BIP - so public call contained also condition that lessee hires at least 100 workers.