Ivica Todorić

Ivica Todorić (* 1951 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia ) is a businessman and currently the richest population in Croatia. He grew up in the Croatian capital Zagreb, where he and his family opened a flower, fruit and vegetable trade later.

• 2.1 scandals

Life

Childhood

Ivica Todorić was born in 1951 in Zagreb. He spent his childhood on a farm in Bozjakovina. Only after the enrollment in primary school, he returned to Zagreb, where he later studied at the economic faculty and graduate.

Family

Today he lives with his wife Vesna and their three children - Iva, Ante and Ivana - in Zagreb. His wife and children also have a degree in economics and work within the Agrokor Group.

His father Ante was a director of the company Agrokombinat and a businessman. 1971, during the Croatian Spring, he was deposed and because of the misappropriation of six million marks (three million euros ), which he is said to have given weapons to purchase the Matica Hrvatska, tried and sentenced in 1973 to 13 years in prison. Of this he spent four and a half years in prison in Nova Gradiška.

Career

After Ivica had completed a degree in economics, the family began with the Floriculture and 1976 also with the trade. After a few years the family Todorić traded with 40 % of the flowers in the former Yugoslavia. In addition, the family -operated in the fruit and vegetable trade. Thanks to its intensive investment in the production and distribution was Agrokor ( one of the leading conglomerates in the region) in the 1980s and the market leader in the floral trade. In 1989 Agrokor was registered as a corporation and Ivica Todorić be the 100% owner.

In 1992, after the disintegration of Yugoslavia advanced Todorić its business and the company Jamnica the company Zvijezda bought (known for mineral water) and a year later ( mayonnaise, oil, butter). In 1994, he expanded his business by even the companies " Ledo " ( Eiswaren ), " Unikonzum ", " Bobis ," the silo " Mlinove Vinkovci ," a salt evaporation on Pag, Hotel Opera acquired (former Inter-Continental ) and the " Bank Zagreb " founded. 2005 was purchased with " PIK Vrbovec " the largest meat processing company in Croatia and with " Belje " the largest supplier of agricultural products. Over the years, companies have been bought in the area of ​​food production and marketing in Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia - Herzegovina and Slovenia to become the market leader in South Eastern Europe with the target.

All investments are summarized in Agrokor Group to which Ivica Todorić 91.67 % and the EBRD holds 8.33%.

Scandals

1992 paid the " Bank Zagreb " six million Deutsche Mark " Agrokor ", for the purchase of corn and wheat of agro industrial combines of Osijek and Kutjevo, which were meant as a state inventories. But Todorić had exported wheat, sells foreign exchange to " Ina " ( Croatian oil and gas company ), and the state subsequently inventories, partially filled with wheat from Serbia. In the same year the " Bank Zagreb " Todorić approved a loan of 80 million D- Mark for the purchase of maize. But later it was learned that he had not spent 48 million D- Mark for corn, but for something for which the bank would have granted him no credit. The relevant departments have accepted his explanation and the whole thing was forgotten.

The castle Kulm

1999 bought Ivica Todorić land to the extent of 7,000 square meters at Šestine in Zagreb district Podsljeme. This land consists of three blocks of the castle Kulm and a wine cellar, which is occupied by five tile varieties. The castle has been renovated to the original version to 2.7 million euros, which was initially a problem as the last photo of the castle dated back to before the Second World War and a scan showed after she was burned out. In addition Todorić was an underground swimming pool and sauna dazubauen.