2023-07-16 15:18:50
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 45 minutes ago, Updated 33 minutes ago
Danone and Carslberg had announced their intention to leave the Russian market after the offensive in Ukraine monticellllo / stock.adobe.com
98.56% of the shares of the Russian brewery Baltika, owned by Carlsberg, and tens of thousands of shares belonging to Danone are placed “temporarily” under the control of the Russian state.
The Russian state has taken control of the assets in Russia of the French groups Danone and Danish Carlsberg, which had announced their intention to leave the Russian market after the offensive in Ukraine, indicated a decree published on Sunday July 16. According to this decree signed by Vladimir Putin and published on the official Russian legal portal, 98.56% of the shares of the Russian brewery Baltika, belonging to Carlsberg, and tens of thousands of shares belonging to Danone are placedtemporarilyunder the control of the Russian state. In detail, this decree specifies that 83,292,493,000 shares of “Danone Russia“, property of the group “Eastern Europe Fresh Dairy Products“, still according to the decree, are placed under the control of the Russian state, as well as 85,000 other shares belonging to the group “Danone Trade».
At the end of June, the Danish brewer Carlsberg announced that it had found a buyer, without naming him, for its activities in Russia, more than a year after announcing its withdrawal from the country following the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The group announced at the end of March 2022 the sale of its important activities in Russia, where it has 8,400 employees and has owned the Russian brand Baltika since 2000.
In mid-October, the French agrifood giant Danone had announced its intention to withdraw from most of its activities in Russia. The group, which had initially assumed its presence in Russia to respond “the essential food needs of civilian populations“, said he planned to cede control of his branch “dairy and vegetable products», Retaining only that of infant nutrition. The French giant had specified that this withdrawal operation could “lead to a depreciation of up to 1 billion eurosin his accounts. Danone markets milk and yoghurts in Russia under the Danone, Danissimo or Prostokvashino brands. In 2010, the group had bought 57.5% of the number two Russian dairy products, Unimilk (21% market share and 25 factories).
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Since the attack on Ukraine by Russia on February 24 and the first economic sanctions decreed by the West, many multinationals have left Russia, others have suspended their activities there, in the oil, automobile or even luxury.
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