Annual Report 2010 - Baltika Breweries

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Baltika Breweries | Annual report 2010
The Company in 2010
Baltika Breweries was founded
in St. Petersburg in 1990. The use of modern
equipment and advanced technologies and
standards made the Company a top quality
producer. The Company became the leader
in the Russian beer market in 1996 and
has held this title ever since.
Throughout its 20-year history, the Company
has achieved dynamic growth by acquiring
production facilities, commissioning new
ones, expanding and upgrading existing
facilities and broadening the Russian (as well
as foreign) distribution networks. In 2006,
Baltika Breweries merged with three large
Russian beer producers — Vena, Pikra, and
Yarpivo.
Today, Baltika is the largest FMCG
producer in Russia and Eastern Europe.
The Company’s production facilities are
located in 10 Russian cities, including:
St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Tula, Voronezh,
Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Chelyabinsk,
Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk.
In 2008, the Company purchased a brewery
in Azerbaijan. The total production capacity
of the facilities stands at 5.2 million
hectoliters of beer per month.
Baltika is the malt production leader among
Russian and CIS breweries. To satisfy its
malt demand, the Company built two of its
own malting plants in Tula and Yaroslavl.
The facilities capacity of each of these
malting plants stands at 105 thousand
tons per annum. The Company also owns
a 30 % share in the Malt Plant Soufflet
St. Petersburg CJSC (with a production
capacity of 110 thousand tons per annum).
In addition, the Company is developing
its own agricultural project, which is being
implemented in eight Russian regions.
The Company’s diverse brand portfolio
meets the needs of the most demanding
consumers. In addition to Baltika, which
is the key brand, the product range includes
more than 40 beer, low alcohol and nonalcoholic
brands on both a national and
regional scale, including: Arsenalnoe,
Nevskoe, Yarpivo, Tuborg, Carlsberg,
Kronenbourg 1664 beers, Somersby
cider, Zhivoy Ruchey drinking water,
Khlebny Krai kvass and Crazy lemonade.
According to data compiled by the
Canadean and Euromonitor international
2010 marked
the Company’s
20 th anniversary.