Agri-Food & Service
Company

Vertically integrated company focused on the b2b customer

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About the company

OUR MISSION

HD-group is a national group of companies comprising grain processing enterprises, bread and pastry factories, a jam and preserves plant, as well as companies providing procurement and logistics services.

HD-group positions itself as an agrifood platform, acting as a service center with a set of outsourcing functions in the B2B market — from the production of goods (within the existing production areas) to the provision of procurement and logistics services.

2 300

Employees

4 600

Points-of-Sale

70 000

Annual Production (in metric tons)

5

Regions Covered

Shipping Logistics

Over 250 vehicles

Grain Elevator and Flour Mill

Storage – 35 000 tons per year
Flour processing – 45 000 tons per year

Production of Confiture, Jam and Fillings

Confiture and jam – 750 tons per year
Fillings – 250 tons per year

Bread and Baked Goods Factories

Yearly production – 72 000 tons

MANAGEMENT

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board of directors

YURII

CHEKALSKYI

Board of directors

BORIS

SHESTOPALOV

Board of directors

SERHII

CHEKALSKYI

Board of directors

The main value for us is our consumers. On taking care of them, we improve every day, being in step with the time. Adoption of the innovative technologies in the production, ensuring the highest quality of products, which meets the need of the customer, and strengthening the positions in the foreign markets allows us to grow steadily and to set the standards in the Ukrainian bread making industry.

Board of directors

TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM

TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM

Maksym Ukraynskyi

Head of Bread and Bakery Production

Serhii Smyrnov

Head of Confectionery

Dmytryi Matiukha

Head of Grain Storage and Processing

Oleh Chemodanov

Head of Logistics

Olexiy Uss

Executive Director

Yevhen Tsyhankov

Director of Finance
Transformation

THE COMPANY SUCCESSFULLY UNDERWENT THE TRANSFORMATION

The Group historically focused on the products’ volume expansion and aimed to become the “Number One Producer” in Zaporizhia region by market share. However, despite the growing revenue and the leading regional position, the Group demonstrated the dropping EBITDA, mainly due to the external factors: inflation, devaluation of Hryvnia and rise in the grain prices, which together increased the costs for population, as well as dropping of the disposal income of Ukrainians, which, n turn, included us to cut down the bread prices. In 2917 the shareholders launches the Transformation project to make the Group more flexible and adaptive to the external challenges. Another aim was to change the strategic and management approaches to improve the effectiveness.

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Innovations in Agri-Food Industry
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INNOVATION
01

4.0 Industry in bread making technology

Whichever is our attitude towards the merger of technologies, total robotization and the displacement of the human factor from the production process, the fourth industrial revolution is inevitable. Its manifestation surround us right now – 3D-printing, “smart house’,  complemented reality even in children’s toys. The industry erodes the boundaries between the physical, digital and biological spheres, forming the “smart production lines”, “smart shops” and, respectively, the “smart factories”.

We are looking for the ideas on how to integrated the laters industrial technologies into the world’s oldest industry – bread making.

Possible directions of the product development:

  • Internet of things
  • Internet of services
  • big data
  • virtual and complemented reality
  • stand-alone robots
  • 3D technology
  • smart plants

02

Foodtech

The development of the foodtech is just getting started in Ukraine. Its actively assimilated with HoReCa and retails sectors, which technologize the process of the food delivery to the consumer: the online restaurant and the bot waiter, the mobile kitchen and the supermarket at the mobile phone… But the foodtech is non limited just to orders or delivery, it also enters into the food industry enterprises.

This challenge is for the teams, capable of brining the latest technologies into the bread-making industry. The raw materials, production, contiguous and accompanying processes, storage – we are looking for any ideas.

Possible directions of the product development:

  • new products
  • new production methods
  • new storage techniques
  • logistics
  • solutions concerning the equipment and outfitting of the facilities (franchising)
  • superfood

PROCUREMENT
DETAILS

Sugar

3,3 thousand tons per year

Yeast

Yeast

1,000 thousand ton per year

Flour

Flour

17,5 thousand tons per year

Grain

Grain

40 thousand tons per year

Products
Details
Bakery goods
Flour confectionery
Fancy bread and pastry
Fruit and berry-based products

The assortment of the HD-group TM includes more than one hundred of the bakery products type, especially for you we produce the delicious long loaves and the authentic rye bread, the wheaten varieties with snow-white duff and dozens of types of the buns.

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