MORE AND MORE CRO GOODS TO BE SOLD IN VUKOVAR SHOPS

VUKOVAR, Sept 4 (Hina) - The reintegrated trading firm "Velepromet" of Vukovar has brought Croatian products, worth about 800,000 kuna, recently the Vukovar area. The firm's director, Zvonimir Ivanisevic, said on Thursday that products offered to that market included different goods from foodstuffs to consumer goods. Luxury goods are not yet offered to the market due to not developed purchasing power of a local population. The market accepted Croatian products, Ivanisevic said and described the cooperation with INTAES as good. According to him, before the war this firm had about a hundred shops in the area, and only 18 of them are working now. Out of about 700 workers, 158 were expelled during the Serb aggression. At the moment 125 employees are working in Vukovar. (hina) mm mš 041354 MET sep 97