Karat Moscow Processed Cheese Plant

OJSC Karat is a company for the production of processed, hard, young homemade cheeses and other types of dairy products, including cottage cheese, sour cream and butter from natural environmentally friendly products. The plant produces processed, curd cheeses, grained cottage cheese and special-purpose dairy products for HORECA, cosmonauts, officers and employees of the Russian Army, Northern and Pacific fleets.

History

2023: Change of Ownership

In early October 2023, it became known that the structure of billionaire Alexander Klyachin sold the Moscow factory of processed cheeses "Karat," which produces products under the brands "Druzhba," "Yantar" and Violette. Entrepreneur Alexander Voznesensky became the new owner of the enterprise.

Klyachin bought Karat from Svyaz-Bank and the former owner of the enterprise, Vladimir Korsun, in 2018. Then experts estimated the deal at 3-3.5 billion rubles. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, as of the beginning of October 2023, 99.9% in Karat Investments LLC, which owns Karat JSC, became the property of Voznesensky. Previously, the corresponding share belonged to Gleden Capital, which is part of Klyachin's Gleden Invest. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Alexander Voznesensky bought the Moscow factory of processed cheeses "Karat"

According to market participants, the sale of the Karat enterprise may be related to Klyachin's attempt to protect his assets from possible arrest. The fact is that in May 2023 Russia , Rus Oil the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, at the suit of Deputy Prosecutor General Igor Tkachev against the oil company "," seized other assets of Klyachin. These are, in particular, shares and shares of firms that own a hotel chain, Azimut Hotels projects of a development company, KR Properties a hotel "" in the Metropol center Moscow , etc. The Prosecutor General's Office was able to prove evasion of the payment of MET and VAT the structures included in Rus-Oil. At the same time, the representative of Klyachin told Vedomosti that the businessman has never been and is not a beneficiary of the companies of the Rus-oil group.

The new owner of Karat Voznesensky, according to SPARK-Interfax, was a member of the board of directors of the structures of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC, is in trust with VTB), among them - Severnaya Verf, Baltic Shipbuilding Plant, Baltic Shipbuilding Plant, Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant and others. As of the beginning of October 2023, he owns the Baltic Port business center in St. Petersburg.^[1]

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