Thanks to the initiative of the Ministry of Economics and the National Employment Service, the First Chance project has been launched, implying employment of ten thousand trainees in the companies in Serbia during 2009.

With a wish to enable young experts to find a job as soon as possible after finishing their schools and by that to acquire practical knowledge in order to become more competitive in the labour market, our company employed Tamara Kosevic, B. A. in Economics, on the job position of Accountant Trainee in September. Tamara got her degree at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in December 2008.
 
A special training programme, which includes acquiring of experience in the operations of all company departments, has been created for the young trainee.  
Our company will be dedicated to the community projects in the future as well.  


’’Each team member has to feel good in business environment, to feel the team and that he/she belongs to it, that he/she is respected, and that his/her work results are also respected. Special skill is needed to listen to the individuals, and to hear the team, to care for the individual and to nurture the team, to develop the company itself by investing in its members.’’
 
The care for the employees’ health makes an important part of the corporate culture of a serious company. Corporate culture forms the employees’ behaviour.
A healthy and satisfied individual, who feels taken care of and safe in the team, comes to work with enthusiasm and wishes to be maximally productive. He/she feels the need to repay the employer for the care provided by his/her efforts.

The awareness of responsibility for employees is a part of Mercata policy and ethics. Mercata marked the end of this difficult year with two community actions: the trainee Tamara Kosevic got the job in the accountancy department and all female colleagues checked their health condition.  

The World Health Organization research shows a worrying data that breast cancer and cancer of small pelvis organs in women, the world’s leading causes of death, hold the first place in our country due to very bad education in primary health protection. Women are uninformed and it means that they do not take good care
of themselves, they are too busy, and the crowds and inaccessibility of state healthcare institutions discourage them from having the check-ups that should make an integral part of their lives.

With a view to protection and preservation of health condition, as well as to stimulating them to realize a maximum of their potential in the future, as they have done it by now, Mercata’s general manager, Mr. Cedomir Cirovic, provided our female colleagues with a paid preventive gynaecological general check-up at the Euromedic clinic in Belgrade.

In the coming year as well, Mercata will direct a part of its budget to the charity actions as well as to the actions of education of the employees.

01/01/2012


We played a role of Santa Claus in the event ''You can also be Santa Claus'', organized by the BC Usce for the Centre for Protection of Babies, Children and Youth in Zvecanska Street.

Under a large, festively decorated Christmas-tree, set in the hall of our commercial building, there was a pile of various presents in the morning of 25 December. Mercata has decided to make the children happy with the Chirstmas presents from our supplier Luxor, full of toys, salty and sweet surprises, and stickers with corresponding albums featuring favourite cartoon characters. Socializing with children and giving of presents took place shortly before New Year's Eve at the premises of our restaurant on the 25th floor. Our small care put smiles on the children's faces and made their difficult daily life a bit easier, at least for a brief moment.

Participation in such event and an immense joy in the children made us think about improving ourselves with this kind of ideas in the current and the years to come.

01/01/2011


This year as well Mercata gave with great pleasure its unselfish contribution to the action organized by the BC Usce and UNICEF in cooperation with the Ministry for Labour and Social Policy.
We provided a part of the presents for 400 boys and girls, 1-4 years of age, who live with foster families in Belgrade, and to whom this small token of our attention made New Year’s holidays more beautiful. The collected presents were handed over to the foster families in the restaurant at the 25th floor of the business centre, where a cheerful reception was organized for the children.