Bulgarian forestry and logging company Vitales in Teteven, central Bulgaria, is to set up a joint venture with an unnamed Dutch company, Vitales executive director Borislav Bechev said on February 11, 2003. The joint venture will operate a small fish processing factory. This is Vitales' third foreign partner. The company has successful partnership ties with Swedish furniture chain Ikea and a Greek company, which have invested 540,000 Bulgarian levs ($297,000/277,000 euro) in Vitales. The money was used for buying additional timber processing equipment. Vitales was privatised in 2000 by a management-employee buyout company.