Property of Tanjug at Disposal of Tacno Company

Although the media reported that Tanjug had been bought by the companies of Zeljko Joksimovic and Manja Grcic, the Property Directorate of Serbia says that the press agency has not been sold, but that the company Tacno, owned by Minacord Media and RTV Pancevo, has acquired the rights of use of Tanjug’s property rights, N1 reports.

The Raskrinkavanje portal also reports that the Government of Serbia has approved the disposal of Tanjug’s logo, slogan and part of the archives by the newly founded company Tacno, owned by Radoica Milosavljevic, singer Zeljko Joksimovic and Manja Grcic, for EUR 628,000, for the next 10 years. Furthermore, under the draft agreement that Raskrinkavanje has had insight into, Tacno is also to take over around a hundred of Tanjug’s employees.

In early December 2020, the portal writes, the Government of Serbia approved the draft agreement between the Property Directorate of the Republic of Serbia and the company Tacno. The draft agreement specifies what the company “gets”.

Primarily, it gets four watermarks of the Tanjug agency, the value of which was estimated in late 2018 by Deloitte at EUR 567,000. This includes four logos, including the slogan “Tanjug.Tacno”, which protected at the Institute for Intellectual Property. These logos, the slogan and the name – the things that practically comprise the Tanjug brand – are to be used by Tacno for the next ten years.

Tačno doo Beograd

MINACORD MEDIA DOO BEOGRAD

RTV Pančevo

RDZI Direkcija za imovinu Republike Srbije Beograd

Vlada Republike Srbije

Željko Joksimović

Manja Grčić

Radoica Milosavljević

privatization of Tanjug