Handicrafts and trading

     Handicrafts and trading have long tradition in the Municipality of Temerin. Temerin got the status of little town in 1799 and since then got the right for organizing four livestock fairs a year. Rail road between Temerin and Novi Sad was built and started working on 2^nd July 1899. With this, industrial development of Temerin started, as well as tilery and steam mil. That way Temerin became one of the most important trading centers in the South-East Backa region.

     After World War II industry was developing very fast, so in the eighties it surpassed agriculture as a main economy branch till that time. Income from production and reconditioning companies in 1983 was 61.5% of all overall income. At the end of the last century Industry had employed about 1600 people, in metal industry about 1000, in clothing industry about 450 and in building industry about 100 workers were employed.

     In the eighties Municipality of Temerin was third in the former Yugoslavia when it comes to income in the private sector area. Association of small workhouses led to establishment of today’s big industrial structure. Transition, economical crisis and war surroundings in the past decade had negative impact on the Municipality. Many very successful companies in the past do not exist any more, and some companies have gone through a process of ownership transformation and are successful nowadays.

     Today, there are about 1000 successful industry entities.

          Divided into branches, they look like this:

          -Trading services -222 entities

          -Hotelier services -71 entities

          -Handicrafts -406 entities

          -Transportation services- 171 entities

          -Engineering services-61 entities

          -Health Care services- 7 entities

      Nowadays, in handicraft and trading services around 1700 workers are employed with the constant tendency of this number to rise.