Imlek a.d. (full legal name: Akcionarsko društvo Industrija mleka i mlečnih proizvoda Imlek Padinska Skela; stylized as imlek) is a Serbian food company based in Belgrade, Serbia. It is specialized in processing milk and produces dairy products.
The company was established in 1953 and owns six production facilities in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia.
It also owns a brand of juices named Bifruit selling in North Macedonia.[3]
History
In 1953, a dairy plant was built at the farm "Lepušnica" in Glogonjski Rit (rit means "swampy area") between Belgrade and Pančevo. That was the practical establishment of dairy industry Imlek within PKB Corporation. Around 800 cows gave daily between three and five thousand liters of milk which was sent to the Belgrade market. In 1957, UNICEF granted a line for pasteurizing and bottling 30,000 liters of milk per day. In 1963, the production already exceeded 21 million liters a year. The company was the largest dairy industry in