Speaking to reporters after the closed-door meeting which lasted almost two hours, Polancec said the Lactalis management had presented the company and its plans regarding Dukat, its employees and contract farmers.
Polancec said he was satisfied with Lactalis's clear intention to make Dukat its basis for regional expansion regardless of its future acquisitions.
Lactalis has experience in increasing milk production, which it intends to do in Croatia, in cooperation with the Croatian Agriculture Ministry.
Polancec said he was satisfied with the statement by the company management that Dukat would keep its present contract farmers and that there was a plan to increase production for each group of contract farmers.
Besnier said that Dukat was an excellent company which Lactalis intended to continue developing.
Lactalis has never let its producers down and it plans to continue developing the dairy industry in Croatia, Besnier said.
He added that Dukat's products would be exported to markets where Lactalis was present, and that Lactalis products would be distributed on Dukat's markets.
Asked how he intended to settle the dispute with the "Konzum" chain of stores, whose owner Ivica Todoric has decided to stop distributing Dukat products, Besnier said he would talk with Todoric and persuade him that Lactalis was a strategic partner for Konzum.
Agriculture Minister Petar Cobankovic said after the meeting that Lactalis was an impressive company with great potentials.
"After this meeting, we can be calm and assure the producers that they have a good future," the minister said.