Srendeuralskiy Winery Ltd. (part of AVS-Group) gets no license

First Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Galina Kovaleva conducted a meeting of interdepartmental committee devoted to assisting the local companies in entering the WTO. The agenda of the meeting covered protection of the food market and development of the infrastructure of the region’s foreign economic activity. ‘Quite a few food producers are not ready to operate on the free market. Modern equipment and advanced managerial technologies give our western counterparts a great competitive advantage, whereas Russian producers have to use some obsolete equipment (nearly half of which is

Sredneuralskiy Winery Ltd. (part of AVS-group) applied to Federal Tax Service for a license permitting them to produce alcohol-containing drinks in July 2006. As Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Provision Sergey Latzkov said to UrBC representative, the company still has not got a license, so it is unable to resume its activity.

Sverdlovsk Region Court of Arbitration introduced competitive production in Yekaterinburg Winery JSC today. The company has up to now only had the external inspection and recently declared itself bankrupt. UrBC has already reported the statement by Deputy Minster of Sverdlovsk Region Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry Sergey Latskov which made it clear that the decision of the Court should result in appointing the company manager who would decide what assets and when should be put up to auction ‘Everything is to be done in accordance with the law,’ Mr Latskov said. The company was

Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and the region’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Sergey Chemesov chaired a meeting devoted to the regional retail markets’ performance. Reports were made by members of a working team responsible for monitoring retail and wholesale food prices. The team members said that the prices had remained stable throughout the week and that their control of food prices in a number of certain stores was made much more systematic. The Minister suggested that the monitoring authorities pay attention to a complaint made by one of the visitors to Auchan’s

Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for January-July 2008 and for the seventh month of the year. The airline’s aircraft operated 7,091 flights between January 1, 2008 and July 31, 2008, which was 16% better than a year earlier; the figures include 2,286 international flights (57% more than in January-July 2007), 4,115 domestic flights (1% more than in January-July 2007), and 616 flights within the CIS (27% more than in January-July 2007). 1,352 flights were operated by the company in July 2008 (which was 9% better than a year earlier), including 551 international flights, 676