Luding

The LUDING Group of Companies is one of the largest specialized trading enterprises in Russia for the sale of alcoholic beverages. The company has an extensive network of branches in key cities of the country: from Kaliningrad to Yakutsk there are 21 divisions of the group of companies.

History

2023

Launch of sparkling wine production

On November 9, 2023, the largest alcohol distributor in the Russian Federation, the Luding Group, announced the launch of the production of sparkling wines at the facilities of the Olymp Winery winery in the Crimean district of the Krasnodar Territory. Assortment - from basic to premium wines produced by the traditional method.

According to Kommersant, the project is led by winemaker Ilya Voloshin. He is known for his work in the Crimean project Cock t'est belle, among the investors of which, as RBC reported, was the general director of MIA Rossiya Segodnya, chairman of the board of the Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia Dmitry Kiselev. The volume of investments in the project and the name of the line in Luding were not disclosed, noting that they intend to enter the ten largest producers of sparkling wines in Russia.

Luding Group announces launch of sparkling wine production

By November 2023, the Luding Group has 90 own brands in its portfolio. As the executive director of the company Ernest Khachaturian emphasized, the importer headed for localization before it became a trend. The plans include the creation and development of own brands both in the categories of wine and spirits.

As for cooperation with Olymp Winery, we also plan to launch lines of aged wines and a limited collection of still wines, he added.

Alexander Stavtsev, head of the WineRetail information center, believes that Kuban-Wine and the Derbent Sparkling Wine Factory may become Luding's main competitors in the inexpensive segment of sparkling wines.

Olymp Winery is one of the largest factories in the Krasnodar Territory, according to the plant's website. The vineyards of the plant are located on the agricultural site of the Krasnodar Territory AF Rodina. By November 2023, out of 1250 hectares of land - 350 hectares are occupied by fruit-bearing vineyards and 950 hectares of fertile land are being prepared for planting autochthonous and classic vine varieties from the nurseries of the Old World, Krasnodar Territory and the Crimean Peninsula. It is planned to master 300 hectares annually.^[1]

Establishment of Dausuz Brand with Dausuz

In early September 2023, it became known that the alcohol distributor Luding Group, the largest wine importer in Russia, created a joint venture with the water producer from Karachay-Cherkessia Dausuz. Read more here.

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