EBRD UKRAINE
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is acquiring a 24% stake in Ukraine's largest malt producer, OJSC Slavutskiy Solodoviy Zavod, and extending a loan to finance a near doubling of its capacity to 150,000 tonnes per year. The bank's combined new financing is US$11.8 million, part of a US?65 million deal with the plant's parent France's Soufflet Group to promote malting, milling and barley collection across central and eastern Europe. A bank memorandum said Soufflet would be passing on know-how on barley growing and ...
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