[4][5] The group has extended its field of activity to the medical and cosmetic world as well as to other areas: insurance, banking, real estate and hotels.
[6][7] In 1990, the Zepter family moved to Monaco,[8] a company under local law was created, CORPO SAM, which designs and carries out marketing, promotion and events for the group's products around the world.
"[13] In 2003, one of the reports of the International Crisis Group attributed the deceleration of Serbian reform to "the financial structures of the Milošević era" which had become "a new oligarchy" financing various parties and influencing, de facto, government decisions.
It mentions the name of Philip Zepter who is said to be among those who have benefited from "special informal monopolies" in exchange for their support for the Milošević regime.
Moreover, the plaintiff does not deny having paid more than 100,000 dollars to a lobbyist to help the government of Đinđić to improve its relations with the United States, “efforts which led (...) to cancel two-thirds of Serbia's external debt ”.
[34] Philip Zepter was named Cavaliere in the Order of Merit for Work of the Italian Republic in 1997 for his outstanding contribution to the development of the industry in that country.
In 2011, Philip Zepter was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (United States of America)[35] for his philanthropic actions in favor of health and the improvement of the human condition.