16 July 2020
The Produkty Pitaniya group has opened a poultry complex costing RUB 1.5 billion in Kaliningrad Region. Interfax reported this, citing a company representative.
Production has started in 20 poultry houses in Kaliningrad. The poultry complex, now comprising 63 poultry houses, will produce more than 35,000 tonnes of poultry meat per year, the company said.
Construction was part of a project under which a hatchery producing 45 million eggs per year was built in 2018 in the settlement of Orekhovo, Bagrationovsk District. The old slaughter facility was also modernized, a new one was built, and a feed mill was constructed.
The Produkty Pitaniya group is the largest producer of frozen convenience foods in Russia and Eastern Europe. It comprises four factories producing convenience foods, ready meals, canned foods and broiler chicken meat. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, 99% of the enterprise is owned by the Cyprus-based company Simertola Holdings Ltd, and the remaining 1% by RSHB-Finance LLC.
As RBC Kaliningrad reported, at the beginning of the year the Produkty Pitaniya group commissioned a large poultry farm with investment of RUB 1.2 billion. In 2019, a full-cycle production operation opened in Zelenogradsk District. It includes 20 poultry farms for fattening meat chickens in the district’s settlement of Kotelnikovo and a hatchery in the settlement of Ryabinovka, Bagrationovsk District.