Russia Business Directory

Russian food market is developing rapidly, with an annual growth of 20%. In 2005, the market was estimated at USD200bn. Given that the dynamics preserve, it will reach USD300-400 bn prior to 2010-2012.

For the five last years, average food expenditures of Russian households increased by 2-2,5 times. Growing middle class have higher requirements to food quality and can afford higher prices.

Dairy market: One of the largest company in the food industry and the absolute dairy market leader (34% market share in 2005) is Wimm-Bill-Dann which has 33 production facilities in Russia and CIS. Affiliated trading companies operate in the 26 largest cities of Russia and the CIS, with distributors working in more than 40 cities. The company has over 18,000 employees. Wimm-Bill-Dann has a brand portfolio of more than 1,000 types of dairy products and 150 types of juice and juice-based drinks.

Baltika Brewery is another market leader, beating Wimm-Bill-Dann by market capitalization. In the list of Europe's 500 largest enterprises published by Financial Times Baltica is on the 373th position. Presently, Baltica Brand is Europe's second largest in terms of sales and accounts for more than 70% of all Russian beer exports. The company is owned by Baltic Beverage Holdings (BBH), a joint venture of Carlsberg and Newcastle.

Meat market: The constantly increasing meat import is making domestic meat production even more unprofitable and drags the prices down. Only in the period from January 2006 to August 2006 meat import increased by 50%, causing a more than 20% fall in purchasing prices. Per August 2006 more than 43% of meat products sold in the Russian market are imported.

However, the industry has its leaders. Cherkizovo Group, est. in 2005, is a leading Russian vertically integrated agro-industrial company, with a full production cycle from feed production and breeding to meat processing and distribution. The operational facilities of the Group include 8 meat processing plants, 4 pig production complexes, 2 poultry production complexes as well as one combined fodder production plant. It also operates two trading houses with subsidiaries in major Russian cities.

NEW Survey of the Food & Beverage Industry in Russia - by Ernst & Young, results of the year of 2006, PDF file (eng)

General information
All Russian Association of Fishing Enterprises and Exporters - the purpose of this organization - protection of the Russian fishermen's rights (rus)

Food Industry of Russia – Commersant daily news on Food Industry and foreign companies’ activities in this branch in Russia  (eng)

News about the Russian Food Industry – news, products and markets, business tools, food processing (eng)

The Expert 200 about the Food and Tobacco Industries in Russia – economic, political news, projects (eng)

Russian Companies Requirements for Food Equipment (eng)

Wimm-Bill-Dann - dairy market leader (eng)

Baltika Brewery - leader of beer market (rus/eng)

Cherkizovo Group - meat market leader (eng)

CNR Pacific Line, St.Petersburg – the company works in the area of import and sale of fishmeal and frozen fish (eng)

Food and Agricultural Group OGO, Moscow - one of the largest Russian companies that sells agricultural products, mineral and synthetic oils and lubricants for industrial enterprises in the CIS, China, India and other countries (rus)

Inmarko, Novosibirsk - a leader in the Russian ice cream market on production volumes and selling; manufactures and distributes ice cream of 20 trade marks (about 100 types); offers Premium Ice Cream under brand Status as well (eng).

Krupskaya Candy Factory, St Petersburg - manufactures exclusive chocolate products to customer specifications. Owned by Orkla Foods (eng)

Marine Business Management, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – the company is specialized in trading of frozen fish & seafood from the North Pacific Ocean Far Eastern Russian waters of Salmon, Salmon Roe, Pollock, Pollock Roe, Mackerel, Cod, Herring etc. (eng)

Moscow Confectionary Factory "Red October" – concern of 13 confectionary factories (eng/rus)

Moscow Distillery “Kristall”, Moscow - the state enterprise for production of alcoholic beverages, which counts over 100 years of its activities, remaining to be a branch in Russia (rus)

Russian Caviar, Astrakhan - the largest fish-producing enterprise in Russia: export of black caviar of sturgeon fishes, manufacturing of the Caspian sea-lake delicacies, fish production of thick net kinds and of oceanic of raw material (eng).

Russian Chocolate Company, Moscow chocolate factory (rus)

Seafood and fish processing plant, St.Petersburg - fillets of different types of fish: Cod, Pike-Perch, Perch, Haddock, Pike, Wild Carp, Bream, Sheat Fish, Hunchback Salmon, Pollack, Hake, Halibut, Turbot, Salmon (rus)

Sevryba, Murmansk - fishery and processing of fish and marine products, storage and transportation of seafood products (eng)

Vologda Milk Products Plant, Vologda, Central District of Russia (rus) 

Wimm-Bill-Dann, Moscow – units 22 milk diary products enterprises in 22 regions of Russia (rus/eng)