The Fox Marble factory, with the company name emblazoned in 7m high black lettering on the yellow walls, stands prominently on a hillside slightly above the surrounding farmland in the village of Magurë, Lipjan, some 10km SW of the capital of Kosovo, Prishtina and 5km from Pristina International Airport.  This location was chosen for its excellent road and rail connectivity to all the company quarry sites in Kosovo and North Macedonia, to the wider Balkan region and beyond. 

The factory is just a few km from the new motorway which connects Kosovo and Albania and enables easy road access to Fox Marble's main export port, Durrës. It is also close to the new Mitrovica to Han e Elazit motorway through Kosovo which more than halved the journey time between Prishtina and Kosovo when it opened in May 2019. The short motorway link to the border within Macedonia is still under tender but when completed Kosovo will have a rapid road link not only to the company's  second main export port, Thessaloniki in Greece, but to the rest of Europe via the now nearly completed N-S motorway through Serbia. 

It is also close to the main north south railway through Kosovo.  This is receiving substantial international investment and will eventually give Fox Marble a modern rail freight link, via Skopje in North Macedonia, to both Thessaloniki and the rest of Europe.

Between the end of 2016 and late summer 2017 the company was able to transfer its entire slab production from Carrara, Italy, to Kosovo as the various stone processing units in the factory were commissioned under the watchful eye of an expert Italian factory manager.  

With its growing cut to size capacity, Fox is able to satisfy three distinct marble market segments - block, slab and, of course, cut to size.  The block market is primarily in countries which have their own stone processing industries such as India, China and Turkey.  Finished slab is the preferred product for Fox Marble's US customers whilst the local and wider European market more usually demands cut to size.

During the course of 2018 and 2019 the company welcomed a number of VIP visitors to the factory. The first was Martin Vickers MP, the Joint Chairman of the British All party Parliamentary Group for Kosovo who visited in February 2018. The then British Ambassador Ruairi O’Connell visited for the first time in April 2018 while Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, together with the local press corps, visited in January 2019. The PM’s visit got widerspread media coverage in print, online and on TV raising local awareness of the company and its operations. The PM heralded the company’s contribution to local employment and to Kosovo exports. But perhaps the most important visitor was the UK’s Europe Trade Commissioner, Andrew Mitchell, who visited as part of a Western Balkans fact finding mission in May 2019. Fox is pleased he chose to visit the company and to give senior managers the chance to explain the opportunities and challenges of operating in Kosovo and North Macedonia.

2020 has seen Fox branching out. Building on its reputation for quality and value for money in the local market, it now processes marble for other companies and has moved to multi shift operations to meet heatlhy local demand.

Whether it is block from the quarries or processed stone from the factory, Fox Marble is proud to be realising its strategic corporate vision of delivering its exclusive high quality marble and marble-grade limestone to the world market at the most competitive prices possible.