Annual Report Gorenje Group 2009

Ecology, energy and services division
Ecology, energy and services division purchases products and sells them to its customers. Prices of
the main products of the division decrease at the beginning of the year and then started increasing in
March. On average, they were slightly higher at the end of the year than in 2008.
Periodic, sudden falls in prices and diminished volume of inquiry were solved by repeated negotiations
with suppliers and expansion of the purchasing market. More up-to-date monitoring of inventories and
logistics was introduced. It has been tried to relate all contracts to average values of world indexes of
individual raw materials. Infrastructure established for the purchase of materials needed for household
appliances from China is used for the products purchased.
Plasixx movement (polymer index)
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Annual Report Gorenje Group 2009