Russia's Sibirsky Bereg Launches Snacks Production in Tashkent

Sibirsky Bereg continues to expand its business across the CIS. In June this year, the company launched a factory in Uzbekistan, to produce a popular salted baked bread snack, Kirieshki, Vedomosti reported.

Sibrisky Bereg is the manufacturer of the popular brands of baked bread snacks, potato chips, seafood snacks, nut mixes and sunflower seeds. The company's turnover in 2006 totaled some US$191.3 million. Sibrisky Bereg now has production bases in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Australia, and China.

Sibirsky Bereg's products are currently marketed in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and Armenia. In Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), the company owns a potato chips factory with the production capacity of some 250 tonnes monthly. In Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) it produces baked bread snacks (120 tonnes monthly and potato chips (25 tonnes yearly).