Bubanj Potok

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Friday visited the construction site of the first IKEA department store in Serbia, in Bubanj Potok, near Belgrade.

IKEA is a development project, not only for Belgrade, Mladenovac and Sopot, but for Smederevo, Smederevska Palanka and Pozarevac, all the way to Velika Plana, he said, announcing more investments in that part of the country.

Sweden's IKEA on Thursday started building its first Serbian store, with a groundbreaking ceremony near Bubanj Potok, on the outskirts of Belgrade.

IKEA's Country Manager for South-East Europe Stefan Vanoverbeke said on the occasion that the store would represent "a great success" for the company, noting that Serbia was "important for IKEA, and has been in its plans since the 1990s."

IKEA has launched preparatory works on its first store in Serbia, IKEA Regional Development Director Vladislav Lalic said on Wednesday.

At a roundtable titled “Consumer Rights: Challenge or Chance for Brand and Company”, he underlined that preparatory works had begun, as well as works on the dislocation of the toll booths in Bubanj Potok, and added he expected no more surprises.

A 23-year-old migrant from Afghanistan died last night in a traffic accident on the Belgrade-Nis highway near the Vrcin settlement.

The man was struck by a car whose driver did not stop afterwards, but fled the scene driving through the Bubanj Potok toll booths.

A bus carrying tourists has overturned in Bubanj Potok, Belgrade, early on Monday, killing one passenger and injuring 62 others.

The tourists were on their way back from vacationing in Polychrono, Greece, a spokesman for the Emergency Service, Nada Macura, said.

First IKEA store in Belgrade to open in late 2016

BELGRADE -- Serbian officials and the representatives of Swedish furniture maker IKEA signed on Friday a Memorandum on the construction of the first IKEA store in Belgrade.