OREANDA-NEWS. On 26 March 2008 Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC, the largest Russian and the CIS producer of health and wellness foods, announced the launch of production of Agusha baby food and Imunele functional products in Omsk Region.

The baby-food production facility is located on the territory of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Manros-M factory, the largest milk-processing plant in Omsk Region. The new production complex has its own reception point for raw-milk deliveries, a warehouse for finished products and three production lines by Tetra Pak, Hassia and Ave. It is the largest production site for dairy products for children in Russia located east of the Ural Mountains. Its designed production capacity is over than 50 tons per day. The total investment in the facility amounted to US\\$14 million.

The full range of baby foods under the Agusha brand as well as Imunele functional products will be manufactured at the Omsk plant. Manros-M will supply the products to all of Russia’s regions from the Urals to the Far East.

“The launch of production of the baby food and Imunele at Omsk is a strategic step forward in the development of the company,” noted Dmitry Mironchikov, who heads up Western Siberia for Wimm-Bill-Dann. “We are seriously strengthening our presence in one of the fastest growing segments of the food market in Siberia and making it far simpler to supply the Urals, Eastern-Siberian and Far-East regions.