Seven people from Montenegro on the list of the 100 richest in the region: Bemax of almost half a billion

Seven people from Montenegro were on the list of the 100 richest in the region published by Nedjeljnik, which dealt with the value of companies and their owners.

The list includes Ivan Ubović, i.e. the company Bemaks, in 52nd place, followed by Dragan Bokan and the company Voli in 63rd place, Veselin Pejović and Uniprom in 81st place, Aco Đukanović with Invest nova and Prva banka in 84th place, Risto Drekalović and KIPS in 91st place, and Komnen Laković and HD Laković in 100th and the Franca family and Mesopromet in 98th place also entered the top 100.

The value of Bemaks was estimated at 482 million, Volija at 413 million, Uniprom at 296 million, Đukanović's company at 285 million, KIPS at 260 million, Laković at 234 million, and Mesopromet at 218 million.

The weekly explains that the list was compiled by experts from two consulting firms working on the New York Stock Exchange and that they used multipliers from the New York University Stern School of Business, and that they included in the analysis the results of market transactions in the region and the world.

They also note that the list does not show how much money the businessmen on the list have, but how much their companies are worth and how much money they could potentially get if they sold them.

The first on the list is Croatian Dubravko Grgić from Agram Group, which is valued at 2.8 billion euros, followed by Miodrag Kostić (MK Group) and Miroslav Mišković (Delta Holding) from Serbia with 2.7 billion.

On the list, 18 companies are estimated to be worth more than one billion, and among them the freshest face is Mate Rimac from the famous automotive Rimac Group, who is in 5th place with 2.2 billion.

Among the more famous names on the list are Dragan Šolak (9th place - 1.3 billion), Bogoljub Karić (21st place - 940 million), Vuk Hamović (26th place - 800 million), Željko Mitrović (32nd place - 732 million). , Novak Djokovic (61st place - 430 million)...

Nedjeljnik concludes that the list also shows that the old Yugoslav division into developed and underdeveloped is valid because the economies of Montenegro, BiH and North Macedonia are far from those of Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia.

In addition, inequality is the highest in Montenegro because the assets of the five largest in Montenegro are 1.7 billion, which is as much as 35.4 percent of the gross national product. The next largest inequality is in North Macedonia, where the assets of the five largest amount to 23.9 percent of GDP.