Arbeer, Italian businessmen start co-operation with Kosovars

The purpose of this event has been for local businesses to meet with foreign investors and see opportunities for co-operation.

Many businesses that are now presented at Prizren's Innovation and Training Park have also been visited by the president of the Albanian diaspora business network in Italy, Vat Maraschi. He said they have also come to this meeting with many Italian businessmen who want to co-operate with local businesses.

“We have come with several Albanian and Arab businessmen, with us the Italians. In this case we come in concrete steps about exporting many products, especially in the agro food field, since quality is pleasing, and desirable, in the Italian market, because we promoted them several months ago, we are now in the phase of direct contracts”, he said.

Meanwhile, the director of the Union of Albanian Business office in Germany, Bekim Brestovci, said that the association aims to become a bridge for local businesses to export their goods or products to the European market.

Our “task is, of course, to give support to local businesses. We as Union are an association that has been operating in Germany for five years, we have about 500 members of all successful businesspeople in Germany and in our mission is one of the strategic platform parts of action to support local businesses for exporting their products to the European market. Today I believe it will also announce many local businesses from Prizren's location, which we may be able to become a bridge for exporting their goods or products”, he said.

Within the framework of the Co-Investation and Networking Forum, organised by the Prizren Community in co-operation with the Germin organisation, during the day will become the launch of the Diaspora Co-ordination Office, which aims to institutionalise diaspora engagement efforts at the local level.

The Co-Investation and Networking Forum began on 5 July, while today is the last day of this event.

From the organisation ʹGermin '% Lirim Krasniqi, it has indicated that 60 foreign businesses and about 30 local businesses have participated in the event.

Today's <x0). We have about 60 foreign businesses and the diaspora and we have about 30 businesses present by Prizren, but there are also some businesses that are from other cities. The purpose of this event is to provide an additional opportunity for local businesses to meet potential partners from the outside world, which are primarily our former” diaspora, he said.

He announced that businesses that have been introduced in this activity as the main sector have food processing and production, textile, construction and transport sectors.

Krasniqi said such activity is thought to be effective for local businesses, so that they can co-operate with foreign ones.

We think this is the basis or foundation of a potential partnership between local and foreign businesses. If nothing is achieved, these establish contacts with each other and are able to continue to have communication and potentially reach some partnership agreement that would affect the growth of local capacities. At the same time, however, the export of products and services offered by” was expressed.

The bags that are handmade today are presented to Valdrin Jahhay, for which such an encounter is very welcome.

It's really good, it's interesting to develop us as the little business we are. There are investors who are interested, they've come to ask, something not concrete, but we're waiting for others to come and care... We present to you bags that are employees, from A to Z, as we say, from the start to the end they do all the work”, he said.

DeKokots that they made for dessert at this meeting were introduced to Tubas Kochbashli, who the idea of such a meeting calls him shot.

“We like Kosovo are a little limited, we definitely need the certificates of some of our products, some of the iso standards are already filled through this project and earlier that we have been able to train. We're gonna try to get those certificates, then we're gonna have a way to export these products out... Mostly, I deal with the preparation of decorations, which means my primary idea has been the production of decorations, the flour produces them, I prepare them from the base are bio-use”, she said.