Sloboden Pecat

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.

Key facts

Business Form

Private

Legal Form

Limited liability company

Business Sectors

Newspaper publishing

Ownership

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 Outlets
Other Media Outlets

Other Online Outlets

Facts

Media Business

Newspaper Publishing

Sloboden pecat DOO Skopje (North Macedonia)

General Information

Founding Year

2013

Affiliated Interests Founder

Vladimir Kosevaliski

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.

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)

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Further Information

Data Publicly Available

ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.

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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.

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