Milan Tadić

He began his professional career in 1986 at the Croatian Pension Insurance Fund as a property-legal representative. In 2001, he joined Podravka d.d. as a specialist and director of property and legal affairs, and after this was appointed director of the Service for Property and Legal affairs and contracts. In 2003, he was appointed to the Management Board of Podravka d.d. as an advisor for international markets, and later was appointed the Executive Director for key international clients. In 2005, he was appointed Executive Director for central European markets. In 2009, he left the company to join the Adris Group and the Rovinj Tobacco Factory where he was the Executive Director for new markets and later Executive Director for all markets for the Rovinj Tobacco Factory. He returned to Podravka d.d. in 2014 to the position of Executive Director for Southeast Europe. In 2015, he was appointed Senior Vice-president for the Adria region, and in 2016 a member of the Management Board of the Žito Group and in 2018, the procurator of the Žito Group. Since 2021, he has served as Director of the Adria Region.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek and also completed basics of administration and a managerial education programme at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. During his career, he has furthered his professional development through numerous managerial courses and training sessions in the fields of management and sales.

The Chairperson of the Management Board and members of the Management Board perform the work of the Company in their individual areas and have distinct and specific tasks they perform in accordance with the valid regulations and Company acts.

Milan Tadić, member of the Management Board, is responsible for coordinating and leading the tasks in the following areas:

• strategic management of all markets in the Food business segment;
• expansion of sales onto new markets;
• function of organisational units that ensure the implementation of strategic sales goals;
• sales policy;
• price policy in cooperation with business programmes;
• sales and distribution on all markets of the Food business segment;
• trade marketing;
• customer management and distribution index by sales channel.