Abrau Durso, een wijnproducent met een aandeel van 5,6% in de Russische wijnmarkt, heeft een beursgang voor komend voorjaar aangekondigd, mits het economisch tij niet tegen zit. Het wijnhuis is vooral bekend om z’n bubbels, strikt naar de regels voor champagne gemaakt. Geen enkel ander Russische wijnbedrijf produceert op die manier ‘champagne’, zoals de Russen het edele vocht tot verdriet van de Franse bruismagnaten blijven noemen.

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“The IPO is planned for the Moscow stock exchange sometime this spring.

 

Abrau-Durso will offer 735,000 shares with a face value of 100 roubles, but the final details and characteristics of the listing will be decided in February.

 

Last August the company planned to offer 15-20% of the company, and expected to raise over $15 million dollars, but after a successful year of 2011, the price may increase.

 

The revenu went up by 30% to 3.5 billion dollars at the end of 2011.

 

The company was established in 1870 as a sparkling wine producer for the Imperial Court. After the revolution the factory began mass production. The modern company still has its main production capacity and 500 hectares of vineyards in the Krasnodarsky area, Southern Russia.

 

Abrau-Durso has 5.6% of the Russian wine market, and last spring it started exporting to Europe. In Russia it is known as the only sparkling wine producer that retains the classic champagne technology. The sparkling wine maker gets 20,000 tourists visiting its wineries annually

 

"We are not interested in the IPO as a source of additional income, we have got a very good profit and trade volume, and we don’t need funds that badly. We need the IPO for us to get the idea how the market estimates our company, find out whether we are developing right? – and, besides, public companies are more trusted in the West, all the more so, as the foreign market becomes our priority”, says company spokesman Vitaliy Ryazancev.