Yury Kosiuk - Bird-catcher
Net Worth: $531 million
Age: 41
Marital status: Married, one son
Last year: $1.5 billion
Industry: Agriculture
The borrowings of Mironovsky Khleboprodukt reached $500 milliobn at the start of 2009. But Yury Kosiuk was calm: He earns foreign currency on the export of sunflower oil, which is always in demand. His company also controls 40 percent of the domestic chicken market and is preparing this year to begin exporting poultry meat and chicken eggs. That’s one reason why Kosiuk isn’t halting the construction of processing plants, and is even planning a project in Vinnitsia Region. He told Korrespondent about this project in April 2008, when he estimated the cost at $1.5 billion. The crisis is clearly benefitting the multimillionaire, as now he’ll need a significantly smaller sum. One way or another, Kosiuk has firmly strengthened his highly promising niche and he is without doubt Number One in domestic food industry. He likes this position, and is already planning to increase the capacity of the Mironovsky bird factory this summer, in order to have the biggest incubator in Europe. Kosiuk is so into his work than in April he starred in an advert for his product, which is highly unusual for those in our list. What will be the result of this marketing move? Korrespondent will let you know next year.
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