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- PJSC Cherkizovo Group operates as Russia's largest vertically integrated meat producer and feed manufacturer, encompassing grain storage, feed production, livestock breeding, slaughtering, meat processing, and distribution across poultry, pork, and processed meat segments. The company offers a broad portfolio of products including whole chickens and cuts, chilled and frozen poultry meat, ready-to-cook chicken items, sausages, ham, hot dogs, deli meats, cold cuts, minced meat, pork products, turkey, by-products, organic granular fertilizers, meat and bone meal, feather meal, blood meal, feeding fat, and compound feed, marketed under brands such as Cherkizovo, Petelinka, Kurinoye Tsarstvo, Chicken Kingdom, Pava-Pava, Imperia Vkusa, and Pit Product; it primarily serves federal retail chains, HoReCa clients, and export markets with operations concentrated in Russia including regions like Tyumen and Orenburg. Founded in 2005 through the merger of APC Cherkizovsky and APC Mikhaylovskiy and headquartered in Moscow, the company strengthened its market leadership by acquiring Ruscom LLC in the fourth quarter of 2024, adding 60 thousand tonnes of annual broiler capacity to claim the top position in Russia's broiler meat production per National Union of Poultry Farmers ratings, and by purchasing Venta-Oil LLC feed mill in Orenburg in March 2025 as part of a 47 billion ruble investment program up 39% year-over-year that emphasizes organic growth, M&A activity, and long-term strategic expansion.