Sloboden Pecat

The company "Sloboden Pecat" DOO Skopje was founded in 2013, with the main activity - publishing newspapers. In its one-decade existence, there have been several changes in the ownership structure, so that now it is dominantly owned by the Serbian lawyer Vladimir Galjak, who owns half of the company. The second half is owned by the Macedonian company "Pecat Mk", where 90% is owned by businessman Dragan Zivkovic, and 10% by one of the directors of "Sloboden Pecat", Miroslav Jovanovic.
In addition to publishing the newspaper "Sloboden Pecat", the company also owns an influential website with the same name, as well as the video platform "Slobodna TV", as part of its media group.
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Limited liability company
Business Sectors
Newspaper publishing
Individual Owner
Miroslav Jovanovic
Miroslav Jovanovic, the son of Gradimir Jovanovic, one of the co-founders and the former owner of the newspaper, he entered the ownership structure of the media after his father left the company. Since 2018, he has been appointed director of the company that publishes the newspaper, and held 50% of shares in the company. The following year, he sold his shares to the company Pecat mk, through which, Dragan Zivkovic became 45% shareholder of the media, while Miroslav kept only 5%.
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Media Business
Newspaper Publishing
Sloboden pecat DOO Skopje (North Macedonia)
General Information
Founding Year
2013
Affiliated Interests Founder
The owner of the companies Net Media Group DOOEL and DNA Communications DOOEL Skopje, which are registered as Internet portals and for market research and public opinion. Kosevaliski is one of the founders of the non-governmental Association for the Protection of National Print Media (AZNPM) Skopje. In 2016, he left the ownership structure of the newspaper.
A well known Macedonian journalist and one of the founders of radio journalism in North Macedonia. In fact, his entire professional career has been connected with Macedonian radio. After his retirement, he became one of the founders of the newspaper Sloboden Pecat. In 2017, he left the media's ownership structurе, when his son, Miroslav entered the company.
Employees
48
Contact
Address: Kej 13 Noemvri GTC Floor 2, Local 12, D.E. 234, 1000 Skopje
phone: +389 2 551 1763
email: isprati@pecat.mk
website: slobodenpecat.mk
Tax/ ID Number
6895760
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
1.50 Mln. $ / 88.21 Mln. MKD
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
6.488 $ / 380.223 MKD
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing data
Further Information
Meta Data
The ownership structure and the financial reports are based on data recived from Central registry of the Republic of North Macedonia. The documents were received on 07.08.2023 based on a government decision from 2017 for free access for investigative journalists. The financial information is for 2022. For the calculation of the amounts in US dollars, the average exchange rate for 2022 from the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia was used.