ZAGREB (Croatia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Croatia's top dairy firm Dukat [ZSE:LURA-R-A] said on Friday it will outsource as of April all of its current operations for the delivery of finished products to retailers.

SKOPJE (Macedonia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Macedonia will allocate 128 million euro ($170.7 million) in the period 2013-2020 to support its milk producers and the farming sector, the government in Skopje said on Friday.

BELGRADE (Serbia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Germany’s Fresenius Medical Care opened on Friday a new 602,000 euro ($803,249) production line for bloodlines at its site in Serbia's northern town of Vrsac, the Vrsac municipality said.

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Croatian stock market indices dropped on Friday, bourse data indicated.

BELGRADE (Serbia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Croatian ice cream and frozen food company Ledo [ZSE:LEDO-R-A] has placed a takeover bid for the shares of Serbian peer Frikom [BSE:FRKM] it does not already own, the brokerage in the charge of the process, …

SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 25 (SeeNews) – Two of the three share indices of Bosnia's Sarajevo Stock Exchange on Friday closed higher than a week earlier, while those of the Banja Luka bourse ended lower, stock market data showed.

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Slovenian port operator Luka Koper [LJE:LKPG] said on Friday its container throughput fell 3.0% to 570,744 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last year.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 25 (SeeNews) – The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) said on Friday it has approved a 30 million euro ($40.4 million) loan for Bulgarian lender UniCredit Bulbank.

BELGRADE (Serbia), January 25 (SeeNews) – Serbian stock indices extended their gains on Friday amid a sharp increase in total turnover, bourse data indicated.