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Yesterday, the chairman of the board of the PM-Invest financial group, Oleg Starodubtsev, told Kommersant that by December of this year he will complete the construction of a feed production plant. According to him, its capacity will make it possible to provide not only the poultry farms belonging to the Platoshinskaya and Kalininskaya group, but also the others located in the Perm Territory. Top managers of other Perm poultry farms interviewed by Kommersant claim that PM-Invest will not be able to compete with large feed manufacturers both in quality and price. Yesterday, the chairman of the board of the PM-Invest financial group, Oleg Starodubtsev, told Kommersant that by the end of the year a feed production plant will be built on the territory of one of the group’s poultry farms, Platoshinskaya (Kungursky district, Perm region). The company estimates the cost of this project at 70 million rubles: more than 30 million of its own funds have already been invested, and by the end of summer, PM-Invest plans to receive an investment loan from Sberbank. After the launch of the plant, sales volumes of Platoshinskaya and Kalininskaya products will be able to increase from 700 million to 1 billion rubles. in monetary terms.
At the same time, the design capacity of the plant (10-12 thousand tons per month) is approximately two times higher than what is needed for both poultry farms. Mr. Starodubtsev noted that he does not intend to increase the number of birds: investors will sell the remaining 6 thousand tons of feed to other Perm poultry farms. “The construction of a plant is, in a sense, a gesture. He says that the company is ready to work for all poultry farms in the region,” emphasized Mr. Starodubtsev. He recalled that last year PM-Invest failed to reach an agreement with the regional authorities on the creation of a poultry holding (investors wanted to buy out the Komsomolskaya and Mendeleevskaya poultry farms, which the authorities have been trying to put up for auction for more than a year - Kommersant ). Therefore, now the company intends to prove its worth in this way.
“Today, the owners of Perm poultry farms purchase feed from feed mills in Yekaterinburg, Bogdanovichi (Sverdlovsk region) and Glazov. It turns out that 60% of the cost of production “leaves” from the Perm Territory to our neighbors. In addition, you have to overpay - the transport component of the total costs exceeds 15%. We will sell cheaper,” notes Mr. Starodubtsev.
He is confident that the plant’s products will be competitive on the Perm market: many Perm poultry farms have their own plants, but they are even outdated. The Platoshinsky plant is being built on modern equipment from Technex and Siemens, which will allow the production of feed of various granulations.
The general director of Agro-Group CJSC, which now controls two poultry farms in the Kama region (Sylva OJSC and Yaivinsky Broiler CJSC), Denis Polivtsev, told Kommersant that he is unlikely to be interested in the products of the new plant. “We buy feed wherever there are large producers - in Bogdanovichi (Sverdlovsk region), Sheksna (Vologda region), Tver, Glazov. Mini-factories usually fail to maintain quality at the level of large manufacturers. I think we won’t buy from them,” he told Kommersant.
General Director of the Permskaya poultry farm (controlled by the Prodo group) Nikolai Roshak also believes that the new plant will work only “for itself.” “All Perm poultry farms have feed production facilities; only Platoshinskaya did not have them. This is a very good solution for PM-Invest poultry farms: the cost of purchasing feed will be reduced and the quality will increase. We have our own suppliers,” noted Mr. Roshak. But PM-Invest is confident that their products will be appreciated.
NADEZHDA EMELYANOVA

Kommersant (Perm) No. 104 from 06/10/2006

PM-invest will feed the chickens