Miratorg Agribusiness Holding is a
privately-held
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...
Russian
agribusiness
Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy,
in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise.
The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit w ...
company based in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
,
Russia
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that was established in 1995.
It is one of the largest producers and distributors of
meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted, farmed, and scavenged animals for meat since prehistoric times. The establishment of settlements in the Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals such as chic ...
products in Russia.
History
The company was founded in
1995
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by twin brothers Viktor and Alexander Linnik. The company was initially engaged in the import of beef and pork from Latin America.
Miratorg signed an exclusive contract for the supply of products with the Brazilian corporation
Sadia
Sadia S.A. is a major Brazilian food producer that has been a subsidiary of BRF S.A. since 2009. It is among the world's leading producers of frozen foods, and is Brazil's main exporter of meat-based products.
In Portuguese the word ''sadia'' ...
in 1999, and signed another with Minerva Foodsrupt, the largest beef producer in South America at that time, a year later.
Miratorg is a
subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a s ...
company of
Agromir Ltd., which is based in
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...
and has a 99.9% ownership interest in the company.
December 1,
2007
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Miratorg and Sadia opened a joint venture for the production of semi-finished products at the Concordia plant in Kaliningrad.
«Sadia S.A. и „Мираторг“ открыли в Калининграде завод по производству полуфабрикатов»
/ref> In June 2009 Miratorg took full control of the enterprise.
Primary products
Miratorg and its subsidiaries
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a sa ...
are active in the processing, production and distribution of poultry, pork and beef, frozen vegetables, convenience foods, ready-to-eat meals and other foods. It is also active in crop farming.
See also
* Food industry of Russia
The food industry of Russia is a branch of industry in Russia.
The volume of production in the manufacture of food products and tobacco - 3.12 trillion rubles (in 2010), including:
* Food production - 2.952 trillion rubles;
* Manufacture of toba ...
* List of companies of Russia
Russia has an upper-middle income mixed economy with state ownership in strategic areas of the economy. Market reforms in the 1990s privatized much of Russian industry and agriculture, with notable exceptions to this privatization occurring in the ...
* Meat industry
References
External links
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Meat industry
Food and drink companies based in Moscow
Agriculture companies of Russia