Astarta will supply sugar to Coca-Cola Ukraine

Astarta strengthened their leading position as the largest Ukrainian sugar producer with 13% share of domestic sugar production in the 2010 production season. Astarta has a major contract to supply sugar to Coca-Cola Ukraine.

Astarta's agricultural business is primarily aimed at the growing of the sugar beets, over 2.5 million tons annually, by agricultural companies controlled by their Group, which is the main raw material for their seven sugar plants. Astarta-Kyiv's sugar plants focus their operations on the production and sale of sugar, sugar by-products and related services.

Astarta-Kyiv LLC, a large agri-industrial company and the leader of the Ukrainian sugar sector, Kyiv, Ukraine, recently has been approved for membership in the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), the USUBC executive committee announced today on behalf of the entire USUBC membership of over 160 companies and organizations who have business operations, investments or other development programs in Ukraine.