“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
Franz Kafka, “The Trial”
STANKA RADAKOVIĆ
It was distant 1993. Time of great changes in my life, I found myself in a new city with no job. After many attempts, a light appeared.
There was a company developing and expanding production. While other companies were shutting down, this one was venturing into something new, production of abrasive materials.
That is how I found myself at YUCO and with much enthusiasm, along with several colleagues, started working on something new, something that I as a food technology engineer hadn’t worked on before.
Under the leadership of Mr. Tomislav Đorđević, YUCO grew into YUCO HEMIJA and developed the manufacture of detergents, household cleaning products, and later cosmetics – a production line whose first manager I was.
At that time it was not easy to launch all those different manufacturing activities and employ so many young people, but his energy was tremendous and it pushed us forward even when we thought that something was impossible to achieve.
Good cooperation with many suppliers of raw materials, both domestic and foreign, and project contractors made YUCO a very recognizable name in Serbia.
Mr. Tomislav Đorđević possessed enormous drive that spured us on. Many times his enthusiasm was not easy to keep up with, but the joy you feel when you see something you’ve produced and you see it selling is immense.
Many young people, hired as trainees back then, are still working today, but now they are experienced professionals with families of their own.
Stanka Radaković, Chemical Engineer
‘93.-‘08. YUCO HEMIJA Production Manager
Business Partners:
Ljubivoje Nikolić, Slobodan Pejović, “Tomić” printing, Mirjana Soro, Ferenc Kasa, Srboljub Đurić, Brane Pajić, Dušan Erdeljan, Živojin Janić, a group of enterpreneurs, Dušan Bokić, Slavko Gabrić, Geza Bleskanj, Veselin Šibul, Bogdan Rokvić, Branislav Rosić
Colleagues:
Jovan Cvetković, Dušan Tadić, Janez Škrubej, Slavoljub Pajkić, Stanka Radaković, Zlatica Nikačević, Đorđe Mitrović, Biljana Simić, Miladin Savić, Miroslav Fodora, Mirjana Srijemac, Dragutin Čop, Blažena Anđelić, Damjan Korda, Gordana Tešić, Dragan Stojanović, Dragan Radujko, Ivko Stojković, Igor Kizur, Željko Jakšić, Zdravko Josipović, Vladislav Hadžija, Robert Hep, Saša Krajnović, Radivoje Nikačević, Veselin Ristić, Branislav Radomirović, Aleksandar Divljak
Others:
Marijana Carić, group of classmates, Nikola Laćarac, Dragan Kosanović, Municipality of Mali Iđoš officials, Ivan Kopić, „Top 10 in Vojvodina“, Gordana Radosavac, Zoran Trajković
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