Potato chips factory in Cacak back in operation

Cacak-based factory for producing puree, potato chips and other potato products, which has recently changed its name back to Chips Way, is now back in operation after two and a half years and produces potato chips dubbed "Cha-Cha".

The factory has hired 56 out of the total of 2,500 candidates who have applied for the job. Among them are also people who used to work at that factory. As a representative of the factory`s Independent Trade Union announced, the plan is to restart the production of Smoki and flips soon as well.

This factory was established in 1962 as PIK Cacak and privatized in 2005, when it was bought by Slavisa Puric, a businessman from Belgrade.

Puric changed the factory name to Slap Grupa, which went bankrupt five years later due to a tax debt of RSD 443 million and a debt of RSD 917 million on the company account.

About 130 workers, who had been on strike for months requesting to be paid late salaries and dividends and that production be restarted, were left without job in late September 2010.

The factory was taken away from Puric in 2011 and resold in September 2012 for EUR 1 million to a consortium of three persons, who have changed the name of the factory to Chips Way.