“Trust” put up for sale another former agricultural asset of Mikail Shishkhanov

Trust Bank is selling the Rodnikovsky pig farm (RS) located in the Chelyabinsk region, follows from the information posted on the website of the Auction House of the Russian Federation. It says that trading on this asset will take place at the end of May. The initial cost of the lot is 1.22 billion rubles. RS produces 19,000 tons of pork per year, which makes it the largest enterprise in the industry in the Urals, according to a Trust representative. The company’s revenue in 2022 amounted to RUB 1.7 billion. Other parameters in the bank were not disclosed. The Rodnikovsky pig farm was previously part of the Healthy Farm Group of Companies, which until 2015 belonged to the State Duma deputy from the Chelyabinsk region Oleg Kolesnikov. A year later, the entire group was acquired by Rusgrain Holding, which is associated with the former shareholder of Binbank, Mikail Shishkhanov. Trust has controlled this company since December 2018.

RS is the last agricultural asset of the Trust to be put up for sale. At the beginning of December 2022, the bank for 6.4 billion rubles. sold the Bashkir agro-industrial complex “Russian Grain” to the agro-industrial complex “Mikhailovsky”, which is part of the Cherkizovo group. The latter for 4.03 billion rubles. bought out the broiler business of the Healthy Farm from Trust. Another company – the agro-industrial holding “Rostagro” (owns 240,000 hectares in the Penza and Saratov regions) – for 18.7 billion rubles. bought Aeon Agro Roman Trotsenko. In the portfolio of “Trust” there is also the Perm poultry farm “Komsomolskaya”, but the bank intends to sell it in mid-May. The initial price of this lot is 1.95 billion rubles.