Nizhny Novgorod Oil and Fat Plant (NMZHK Group of Companies)

History

2023: Rusagro bought 50% of Nizhny Novgorod Oil and Fat Plant

On June 27, 2023, it became known that the Rusagro group of companies, a large producer of fat and fat products in Russia, entered into an agreement on obtaining control in the NMZHK Group of Companies, which includes two oil and oil plants in Nizhny Novgorod and Samara, oil extraction plants in Uryupinsk and Sorochinsk, as well as elevators.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the co-owner of NMZHK is Singapore-based Wilmar International, a palm oil producer and trader that also supplies sugar, flour, rice and other products. The NMZHK assortment, among other things, includes Ryaba mayonnaise, Astoria sauces and ketchups, Hostess margarines, soap, snacks and pasta. In turn, Rusagro produces fat and fat products, sugar, meat under the brands "Mistress's Dream," "Generous Summer," "Chaikofsky," "Butcher's Word."

Rusagro entered into an agreement on obtaining control in the NMZHK Group of Companies

According to Kommersant, Rusagro Group of Companies signed an agreement to acquire 50% of NMZHK Group of Companies from Russian shareholders and gain control over the business. The transaction is also evidenced by the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, according to which, from June 23, 2023, Yan Kubinsky, a former top manager of the Solar Products holding, whose assets were transferred to Rusagro, became the general director of Profit PKF, which owns NMZHK enterprises. Earlier, PKF Profit was headed by Nikolai Nesterov, managing partner, chairman of the board of directors of NMZHK Group of Directors.

It is expected that the deal will allow NMZHK and Rusagro to get "synergistic effects in the oil and fat market, to enter new categories and sales markets." In particular, the group will become the main producer of mayonnaise in Russia, increasing its share from 15% to 28%, and will also be able to occupy 33% of the market for consumer margarine and spreads. Representatives of Rusagro said that efforts will be directed to the development of NMZHK brands together with Wilmar.^[1]

2014

In 2014, several large-scale investment projects were completed at the Nizhny Novgorod site: the installation and launch of a new production line for mayonnaise products; a new production line for sauces; modernisation of the toilet soap line. The successful completion of these projects made it possible to increase production volumes.

2012

On September 12, a solemn ceremony of laying a stone in the foundation of the Sorochinsky oil extraction plant took place. The plant will be a single complex with the Sorochinsky elevator already owned by the group of companies. The ceremony was attended by the governor of the Orenburg region Yuri Aleksandrovich Berg, the head of Sorochinsk Strelnikov Pyotr Mikhailovich and the chairman of the board of directors of the NMZHK Group of Directors Nikolai Nikolaevich Nesterov.

2011

In 2011, the NMZHK group of companies entered a new snack market with the Stepanovna brand. The range includes fried sunflower seeds, as well as pumpkin seeds, peanuts and pistachios.

2006

NMZHK launched a new product on the market: Astoria sauces. Until now, the original sauces "Sour cream with mushrooms" and "Creamy garlic" are very popular, and the company NMZHK is the leader in the category of "sauces" on the Russian market.

2002

In 2002, the Samara Fat Plant was included in the NMZHK group of companies. After the enterprise joins the NMZHK Group of Companies, production volumes are constantly increasing, equipment is being modernized, and the range of products is expanding.

2000

Two enterprises of the raw materials complex are joining NMZHK, which make it possible to solve the problem of sunflower shortage: the Shuisky Oil Extraction Plant and the Yekaterinovsky Elevator. The process of building a vertically integrated holding company begins.

1999

In 1999, the production of mayonnaise began under the trademark "Ryaba." Today it is the flagship brand of the NMZHK group of companies, under which mayonnaise, ketchup and even tomato paste are produced.

1998

• At the initiative of Nikolai Nikolayevich Nesterov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NMZHK Group of Companies, the Oil and Oil Union of Russia (MZHSR), an association of manufacturers of the oil and oil industry in Russia, is being created. The Union protects the common interests of manufacturers, interacts with public authorities, develops standards and regulations, organizes industry conferences and is engaged in research.
• The first domestic brands appear on the Russian market. "NMZHK" launches trademarks that are still popular with the consumer: mayonnaise "Ryaba" and "Sdobri," margarine "Hostess." The first brand of the company was "My Baby" - a children's soap that is suitable for use from the first days of a child's life.

1996

Nikolai Nikolaevich Nesterov becomes the director of OJSC NMZHK - and begins a large-scale campaign to update the enterprise. A huge role in this is assigned to the just created Trading House and the system of merchants who traveled throughout the country in search of new customers, while their colleagues, dispatchers, in Nizhny Novgorod, issued documentation and shipped products. In addition, the Trading House is engaged in the purchase of raw materials.

1979

The plant for the production of surfactants - food surfactants was put into operation. The plant produces emulsifiers, mostly for the bakery and confectionery industry: bread, cookies, marshmallows, jelly, etc. Use of additives allows to reduce consumption of expensive ingredients, improve taste quality of the end product, increase storage life.

1966

A three-year modernization project has been completed at the Uryupinsky Oil Extraction Plant. The second extraction line was installed, a transformer substation was built, three oil purification lines were installed by hydration.

1951

At the margarine plant in Nizhny Novgorod, the first trial batch of Provencal mayonnaise was released.

1950

On December 31, 1950, exactly one year after the start of the Samara Fat Plant, a plant for processing vegetable oils (hydraulic plant) was launched at the plant.

1949

• November 1, the Gorky Margarine Plant was commissioned.
• The decision to build the Samara (Kuibyshevsky) fat plant was made in 1946. Construction began in October 1946. For three years, buildings of two main and two auxiliary workshops were built, equipment was installed, commissioning of a whole complex for the processing of vegetable oils was carried out. The first phase of the Kuibyshev fat plant with a capacity of 6,000 tons per year was commissioned in 1949.

1941-45

During World War II, the plant produces products for the front. They produce aluminum naphthanate for Molotov cocktails, dry alcohol for cooking in the field, glycerin for powder factories, soap for the needs of the army, partisans and hospitals. The workers recall that the salary was paid with cake, which was exchanged for food in the villages. After working as part of voluntary youth brigades, workers loaded products into railway cars, Komsomol members participated in defensive work.

1934

The plant in Gorky was reorganized to include a soap and hydrogenation plant, a carboxylic acid plant under construction and a creamery.

1930

The creamery in Uryupinsk was put into operation in 1930. The plant would have been built in three years on the site of the nationalized oil mill of the merchant Krysin.

1924

A factory apprenticeship school (FZU) is opened at the plant to train qualified workers.

1918

Soon after the October Revolution, the plant was nationalized.

1905

Soap production begins at the plant.

1898

November 14 - the date of foundation of the plant by the Moscow merchant Persits. The plant produced burning oil - a mixture of mineral (petroleum) and vegetable oil, which was used in lamps and lamps instead of expensive "wooden" oil (olive).

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