Milk Milk – a product of prime necessity of strategic importance in the consumer basket. Milk consumption in Russia has traditionally been at a high level (for example, in 1990 it amounted to 385 kg / pers.). However, with early 90-ies, this figure has consistently declined. In 2008, the aggregate amount of milk production in Russia amounted to 32.5 million tons. This is 0,2% more than in the previous year. In the list of largest companies are leading the two dairy plants holdings – Wimm-Bill-Dann and Unimilk. The biggest player in Russia’s dairy market – Wimm-Bill-Dann. The company has 27 manufacturing facilities in 22 regions of Russia and CIS, sales offices in 26 cities in Russia and CIS countries.

“Flagship” company Wimm-Bill-Dann is “Lianozovsky Dairy Factory – the largest dairy company in Europe with a capacity of processing 1500 tons of milk per day. Second place in terms of production owned subsidiary of Tsaritsyn Dairy Factory. Taken together, Wimm-Bill-Dann owns at least 30% of the dairy market in Russia. Unimilk – a young and rapidly growing company founded in 2002 Nowadays, the holding together more than a dozen top companies, which today is a major player in the local markets. Especially should be made “Petmol, which is included in the the top three in terms of production of dairy products (not just milk) in Russia.