Former Kyiv City Council deputy Vyacheslav Suprunenko has invested $2 million in the bankrupt Kyiv Rosinka plant, which he bought in 2023 and will resume operations in May 2025, Forbes Ukraina reports.
According to the publication, the launch of production cost $1 million. The company plans to invest more than $1 million in 2025-2026. The company expects to recoup the investment in five years.
“In 2024, Rosinka has already resumed production of contract bottled lemonades at the Orlan plant in Kyiv and at a plant in Cherkasy region.
The company has obtained a license to extract mineral water from a spring on the plant’s territory at a depth of 327 meters. The first line of Sofia Kyivska mineral water will be launched in April-May 2025. This will be followed by juice drinks with four flavors. The production of classic lemonades at the Rosinka plant is scheduled for 2026, said Inna Yarmolenko, director of the Rosinka plant in Kyiv.
“Sophia of Kyiv will be bottled in 0.5-liter and 1.5-liter bottles, and juice drinks will be packaged in 180-200 ml soft packs. The redesign of Sofia Kyivska has already been completed, and the next step is to change the label of Rosinka. The names of the drinks will not change.
“The plant plans to launch production of functional drinks in 5 years, including kombucha, energy drinks and vitaminized drinks,” Yarmolenko said, adding that they will be produced under different brands, not just Rosinka.
Currently, the Kyiv-based Rosinka plant is negotiating sales with national retailers such as ATB and Silpo.
As reported, in August 2023, Prozorro.Sale successfully held an auction for the sale of the bankrupt Rosinka plant, which was sold for UAH 138.5 million to the Cyprus-based Alviva Group LTD, whose beneficiary is former Kyiv City Council member Viacheslav Suprunenko.
The former Rosinka plant in Kiev was sold together with its property at two auctions for a total of UAH 138.5m.
According to information on the site “Prozorro.Sales”, on August 3, an auction was held to sell part of the plant’s property with a starting price of UAH 11.1 million, and on August 9 – the rest of the property for UAH 108.5 million.
The winner of both auctions was Kyiv Plant Rosinka LLC, which offered UAH 23 million at the first auction and UAH 115.5 million at the second.
According to Opendatabot, the owner of the company is the Cypriot Alviva Group Ltd, the beneficiary of which is the former deputy of Kyiv Council Vyacheslav Suprunenko.
The total area of the property complex of the plant is 22.5 thousand square meters. m.
Auctions were organized within the framework of the liquidation of PJSC “Rosinka”, declared bankrupt by the ruling of the economic court of Vinnytsia region in 2018.
As reported, in March 2023, LLC “Financial Company Rickard” acquired at auction the right of claim under the loan agreement of the liquidated MR Bank (formerly – Sberbank, Kiev) with collateral in the form of Kiev plant “Rosinka” with equipment for 129.7 million UAH.
