- CEO
- Viktor Petrovich Ivanchyk
- Full Time Employees
- 7,037
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Agricultural commodities/Milling
- Address
- 38/44 Pochainynska Street Nicosia Cyprus 04070
- IPO Date
- Aug 23, 2006
- Business
- ASTARTA Holding N.V. is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding operating primarily in Ukraine, specializing in crop production, sugar production from sugar beets and raw cane sugar, soybean processing, dairy and meat farming, grain storage and logistics, and bioenergy production. The company produces and sells sugar, grains, oilseeds, soybean products, fodder, natural gas, milk, and meat, supported by a land bank of approximately 220,000 hectares, six sugar plants, multiple grain elevators, dairy farms with about 22,000 head of cattle, an oil extraction plant in Hlobyne, and a biogas complex. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus, ASTARTA serves both domestic and international markets, with around 44% of its revenue from exports, especially to the European Union. Recent strategic activities include the 2025 approval of a USD 76 million investment project to build an oilseed processing plant in the Khmelnytskyi region with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year and an investment agreement of USD 40 million with the International Finance Corporation for constructing Ukraine's first soy protein concentrate plant. The company has also intensified investments in soybean processing and agricultural machinery fleet renewal, exceeding USD 21 million in the current year, while expanding its cattle farming operations and maintaining stable sugar production output with five operational sugar plants. Its shares have been publicly traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2006 (ticker: AST), with major shareholders including founder Viktor Ivanchyk and Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. ASTARTA remains focused on enhancing its production efficiency, expanding its processing capacities, and supporting regional social and economic programs, positioning itself as Ukraine’s largest sugar producer and a leading agribusiness player in Eastern Europe.