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BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Monday there had never been any plans to privatise the national power company EPS, but that the plan was to professionalise it in the best interest of employees.

The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels.

Four decades later, with resuscitated record album sales producing double-digit annual growth, manufacturers are rapidly rebuilding an industry to keep pace with sales that reached $1 billion last year.

Despite the impact of digitalization on the music industry, the sales of vinyl records have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fact that people, who have to spend most of their time at home due to the outbreak, have found new hobbies, increased the interest in nostalgic vinyl records, which normally draws interest of its enthusiasts only.

BELGRADE - The government of Serbia appointed on Thursday Aleksandar Obradovic as the director of public enterprise Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) for a term of four years, government officials confirmed for Tanjug.