News
28 September 2018
Agromino’s largest shareholder increased its stake to 43%
News -Mabon investiční fond s proměnným základním kapitálem a.s., the largest shareholder of Agromino, purchased 3.1 million shares of the company for a total of SEK 53.57 million ($ 6 million) corresponding to a price of SEK 17 ($ 1.91) per share. Mabon thus increased its number of shares to 7.5 million, which corresponds to 43.05% of the total number of shares and votes in the company. GoMobile Nu AB, the company’s second largest shareholder, announced about the sale of 1.48 million shares for a total of SEK 25.6 million ($ 2.8 million) corresponding to a price of SEK 17 ($1.91) per share. If the condition is fulfilled, GoMobile Nu AB will hold less than 15% of the total number of shares and votes in the company. Agromino, an agribusiness company in Ukraine, Russia and Estonia, received a net loss of € 2.8 million ($ 3.24 million) for the first half of 2018 compared to a net loss of € 9.5 million ($ 11 million) for the same period in 2017.
26 September 2018
Switzerland to extradite Ex-CEO of Mriya to Ukraine
News -Mriya Agroholding, a group of companies operating 165,000 ha in 6 regions of Ukraine, informed of possible extradition of its former CEO, Mykola Guta, from Switzerland to Ukraine. Mykola Guta was put on the international wanted list after Mriya had accused him of financial fraud worth $ 100 million. Although he applied for political asylum in...
26 September 2018
MHP to buy Slovenian meat processing company
News -MHP, a leading Ukrainian poultry producer, is to buy a vertically integrated Slovenian company Perutnina Ptuj, a manufacturer of poultry products. As reported by MHP, the deal is expected to strengthen its position on the global market and bring long-lasting benefits to both companies. In particular, the agroholding plans to improve the production...
25 September 2018
Beeswax Dyson Farming acquired new farmland
News -Beeswax Dyson Farming, a leading crops producer in the UK, has reportedly spent £ 37 million ($ 48 million) on further farmland acquisitions in 2018. In particular, the farmland has been extended up to 14,163 hectares, an increase of 800 hectares since January 2018, with all land situated in Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The...
25 September 2018
Rusagro acquired 11,000 hectares in Tambov Oblast
News -The Rusagro group of companies, one of the leading producers of sugar, pork, and oil and fats, acquired LLC Vozrozhdenie, a farm operating 11,000 hectares. The enterprise is located in Michurinsky district of the Tambov Oblast, close to the Nikiforovsky sugar factory of Rusagro. The company plans to use the land for sugar beet crop rotation and...
25 September 2018
Agroprosperis to purchase 100 grain hopper cars
News -Agroprosperis, an agroholding operating 430,000 hectares in 13 regions of Ukraine, is to buy 100 hopper cars to enlarge its machinery park. The company expects to transport up to 800,000 tonnes of grain per year and provide transport services to other agricultural producers. As of today, the agroholding produces wheat, rapeseed, maize and...
25 September 2018
Zarechnoe Group to launch a cattle farm
News -Zarechnoe Group, the second largest producer of beef in Russia, plans to invest RUB 5.5 billion ($ 83.5 million) in a farm with 45,000 heads of cattle. This investment will allow the company to increase its meat production by 50 %. The project has been launched on a trial basis with 1,000 heads of cattle. At the beginning of 2018, the cattle herd...
25 September 2018
Astarta buys back its stock
News -Astarta-Kyiv, a leading Ukrainian producer of sugar, crops, milk and meat, repurchased its own shares in the quantity of 7,069 during trading sessions on the Warsaw Stock Exchange from September 17th to 21st, 2018. The average price per share equaled $ 8.17. Besides, the agroholding bought back 900 own shares at $ 8.62 per share from September...
24 September 2018
First industrial sheep breeding farm in Russia launched by Miratorg
News -Miratorg agroholding launched a sheep breeding farm worth RUB 2.9 billion ($ 43.9 million) in the Kursk Oblast. This farm is the first of its kind in Russia. The capacity of the enterprise will allow to rear up to 50,000 sheep at a time and produce up to 3,300 tonnes of sheep meat per year. The launch of a lamb production enterprise that meets the...
20 September 2018
Agrovalley Limited increased its stake in IMC agroholding
News -Agrovalley Limited, controlled by Aleksandr Petrov, Chairman of the Board of the IMC agroholding, acquired 90,000 shares of IMC at a fixed price of PLN 12.6 per share ($ 3.11). As a result of the purchase, the company increased its shares to 23.52 million (70.88 %) out of 33.178 million registered shares of IMC. The IMC company’s net profit in the...