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Investment Outlook Sessions
Moldova:
Investment Climate and Business Opportunities
Tiflis, 15.05.2015
Dr. Georg Vierling, managing director, Südzucker International GmbH
Overview
Südzucker Group
Südzucker Moldova
Experiences in the Republic Moldova
as a Western European investor
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Südzucker Group: Segment overview
Sugar is our core business, yet Südzucker is more than sugar ...
29 sugar factories and
3 refineries in
Austria, Belgium,
Bosnia,
the Czech Republic,
France, Germany,
Hungary, Moldova,
Poland, Romania,
Slovakia
BENEO
Freiberger
PortionPack Europe
Starch
Bioethanol
4 production sites
in Germany,
Belgium, France
and Great Britain
Fruit preparations
Fruit juice concentrates
40 production sites
worldwide
Sugar
segment
Special products
segment
CropEnergies
segment
Fruit
segment
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Südzucker Group: Sites of the sugar factories/refineries
Südzucker
Raffinerie Tirlemontoise
Saint Louis Sucre
AGRANA
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Südzucker Moldova
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■ SZ Moldova was founded in 2001
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■ Why Moldova?
■ Sugar factories, sugar packaging,
biogas, own agricultural sector
■ Sugar market leader in Moldova
■ About 500 employees
■ Investments of about
30 million Euro
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Raw material and logistics earlier
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Raw material and logistics these days
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Processing sugar factories
in former times
plant Drochia
plant Falesti
Aims in plants:
plants:
Reduction of energy need
Reduction of sugar losses
Decrease in maintenance
costs
nowadays
Ensuring quality of products
Adjustment the number of
employees
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Sales / packaging system
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Development of brands
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New building of a biogas plant 2013/2014
Fotos von Dr. Dandar
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Agro SZM –
own agricultural sector with about 7.000 ha arable land
Cultivated area in total: 6.423 ha
5%
9%
24%
8%
7%
47%
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sugar beet
maize
wheat
barley
sunflowers
1.563
421
2.995
542
555
347
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
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Project 2015: Maize - and grain drying,
use of waste heat of the biogas plant
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Challenges in Moldova
Current situation on the sugar market
Competition with sugar cane
External protection/
protection/ external tariff towards third countries
Stable framework conditions
(VAT and smuggling)
smuggling
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