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Slovenia, twenty million to buy the Postojna Cave
Postojna sale to plug the financial hole of Istrabenz. Goes to auction the subsidiary which has a concession to the famous and huge karst formations, and ownership of the castle adiecente the main entrance to the cave. Base price of € 20 million
VALORE. Il prezzo di base è stato stabilito che sarà di 20 milioni di euro, ma secondo gli esperti, se l’”Istrabenz Turizem” ne raccoglierà 15 di milioni potrà ritenersi soddisfatta.
SACRILEGIO. Qual è il maggior timore che ora circonda la Grotta e i suoi abitanti? Che a subentrare nella concessione ventennale delle grotte sia un acquirente straniero. A kind of sacrilege. So the president of the industrial Postojna Blazin Igor has been announced that their subsidiaries are also prepared to make a bid for the management of the turisitica Postojna. Tenders must be received by March 15. The envelopes will be opened in April when the seller may make agreements with the rite potential buyer of the company Turizem Kras.
THE OPERATION. The Istrabenz Turizem sells mainly so the trademark of Postojna Cave in employing 130 employees, and the castle Predjama and some other properties located in Postojna, but valuable minor. The company has registered Turizem Kras in 2009 of € 10.5 million collection (there were 11 in 2008), of which only 6 million from entrance fees to the Postojna Cave for a total of half a million visitors, more than 600 thousand € from the ticket to the Castle Predjama. The net profit was 1.42 million euro.
PRIDE. The combative president of A ssociazione industrial Igor Blazin told the Ljubljana daily "Delo" and within the local Assindustria you are giving a great deal to do because they can be successful because the fferta or in a case like this it is essential that the management of Slovenia's natural beauty remains in the hands of Slovenia. "Of course - he said - we Slovenes in 1990 when we voted for independence we had in mind such things."
MINISTRY. Laconica the response of the Slovenian Economy Ministry spokesman, who explained that the government in 2008 renewed for 20 years the concession contract of the caves in the Kras company Turizem and not the owners of this company, so the Istrabenz turizem can not affect the rights granted. Moreover, Ljubljana has also stated that the government can not intervene in any way to guarantee who will be the one who will take over the property in this case, because if it did would find itself on the head of infringement proceedings by the EU. PLAY PRIVATE
(February 16, 2010)
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