Owners of the Ostankino meat processing plant are negotiating its sale
As it became known to Kommersant, the owner of the Ostankino meat processing plant – the sausage manufacturer under the brand “Dad Can” – resumed negotiations on the sale of business. The declared value of the asset is 50-60 billion rubles. However, experts consider this amount an overstated about one and a half to two times. In 2017, the sale of the enterprise did not take place precisely due to overstated price expectations of the owner. At the same time, the plant is interesting primarily to meat manufacturers, which is lacking in processing capacities.
The fact that the owners of the Ostankinsky meat processing plant (OMPK) resumed active negotiations on the sale of business, told four sources of Kommersant – three of them in the food market and one interlocutor of Kommersant, close to the company. According to one of them, they can close the deal in the summer of 2025. Two Kommersant interlocutors also indicate that the declared value of the OMPK is 50-60 billion rubles. The head of the M&A BGP department, Capital, Ivan Peshkov, calls the indicator high and estimates the current market price of an asset of 35–40 billion rubles.
OMPK It was founded in 1954, produces meat processing products and semi -finished products in Central Russia. It produces 100 items of sausages, meat products and semi -finished products, in particular, under the brands Ostankino, Dad can. In addition to the plant in Moscow, the company owns two livestock complexes in the suburbs and Smolensk region. According to the National Union of Pigovodov, in 2024, the OMPK took 16th place in the ranking of industry manufacturers in Russia, releasing 81 thousand tons of pork. According to the SPARK, the revenue of the plant in 2024 increased by 25.39% a year by the year, to 79.66 billion rubles, net profit – by 10.81%, to 4.03 billion rubles. Its founder Mikhail Popov is considered the beneficiary of the company.
Ivan Peshkov suggests that the asset can be of interest to large meat manufacturers with insufficient amount of their own processing capacities. Konstantin Korneev, director of the agricultural consulting company Rinkon Management, agrees that players who already have their own large resource base in the form of meat complexes may have the greatest interest. The presence of lines of famous brands around which a group of loyal consumers has already been formed, and developed distribution channels to retail chains can also contribute to an increase in interest in buying an OMPK, adds the head of the National Meat Association Sergey Yushin.
According to one of Kommersant sources, the possibility of buying a plant is studied by Tavros agricultural holding, the structures of the ex-president of the UMMC Iskandara Makhmudov, the Marathon investment group and the CP Foods-the Thai Cong Group C while the Cong Group. Another interlocutor “Kommersant” among potential buyers of the asset calls GAP “Resource”, “Miratorg” and agricultural complex named after N.I. Tkacheva.
Tavros said that information about the company’s participation in negotiations on the acquisition of the OMPK is not true. The Marathon also claims that they do not consider the possibility of buying a plant. In CP Foods, GAP « Resource », « Miratorge » and the agricultural complex named after N. I. Tkacheva, agricultural holding “Spaces” (on the market it is believed that this structure represents the interests of Iskandar Makhmudov in the agricultural industry) did not answer the Kommersant’s request. Also entered at JSC « Ostankino meat processing plant ».
Eight years ago, CP Foods had already negotiated with OMPK on their purchase (See “Kommersant” dated February 6, 2017). Then the amount of a possible transaction was estimated at $ 150 million, according to the source of Kommersant, familiar with the course of negotiations, it was precisely because of such an assessment that the parties could not agree. In Russia, CP Foods already owns the pig farms in the Moscow, Kaluga and Kursk regions, as well as the North Poultry Poultry.
Konstantin Korneev notes that the attractiveness of the OMPK largely depends on how its products in the future can withstand competition with the direction of the finished kitchen. In recent years, retailers make a large bet on this segment. According to the Nielsen research company, from March 2024 to February 2025, the share of sales of finished dishes in monetary terms increased by 0.7 p., To 7.6%.
