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Kovelmoloko [KMOL UZ, BUY] is a main asset of the Western Milk Group (WMG), accounting for 33% of the group’s total output.

Slavutych [SLAV UZ, BUY], a Ukrainian beer producer, formerly affiliated with the Baltic Beverage Holding (BBH), became a part of the international holding Carlsberg.

Prydniprovsk Dairy Plant, a Ukrainian independent dairy producer, held a successful AGM on June 30, 2008.

Kernel Trade, a vertically-integrated part of the Kernel Group [KER PW, N/R], recorded a three-fold increase of net revenues to USD 194.1 mln and an expansion of net income to USD 7.34 mln.

The Ukrainian government is planning to expand subsidies for sowing sugar beets 26.7% to USD 154.5 per ha (vs. USD 113.3 per ha in 2006), Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said, Ukranews reported.