FBG set to feast on hotels and Eastern food markets

The Food Business Group (FBG), an alliance of domestic food producers, is planning a major offensive on the Russian and Ukrainian markets, as well as looking to create a company that will sell their products to Polish hotels, restaurants and catering firms. Of the latter plan, Marian Owerko, president of Uno Fresco Tradex, the largest company in the group, said, "This is a huge market, comprising 43,000 outlets. If we can present an interesting portfolio, hotel and restaurant operators could be quite interested." A special subsidiary called the Bristol Group is also be set up in Russia to support sales of companies from the alliance. FBG currently comprises nine firms with combined annual revenues of zł.800 million, although six more firms are set to join the alliance soon. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4) T.J.