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INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
OF LENINGRAD REGION

Industry Development Centre of Leningrad Region is a regional support institution established to promote the competitiveness
of industrial enterprises in the region. The Centre includes three subdivisions: Cluster Development Centre, Export Support
Centre, and Regional Competence Centre.

Industry Development Centre provides services to industrial enterprises of the region,
as well as small and medium-sized business. More specifically, the Centre provides
assistance to the enterprises willing to improve their competitiveness, increase production
volume, reduce costs, find new partners, expand sales at both domestic and foreign
markets, introduce the principles of lean production, reduce government support at the
regional and federal levels.

Our experts provide assistance to the enterprises in elimination of inefficiency in business
processes, train employees to improve labour productivity using lean production tools.

Vera Shtokaylo,
Director of Industry Development Centre of Leningrad Region

Successful cases:

Tosnensky Mixed Feed Factory Koporsky Ivan-Tea
The Export Support Centre assisted the enterprise The company became one of the first five regional enter-
in obtaining a GMP+ certificate. This certification system prises that the Export Support Centre took on compre-
allows guaranteeing the safety of the entire production hensive support for entering foreign markets. Before that,
chain and export products to European countries. all the company’s products were presented only on the
Russian market. Initially, the enterprise chose China as the
Now the factory in Tosno is the only one in Leningrad priority market. In June 2019, thanks to cooperation with
region that has certified a feed materials production the Export Support Centre, the company’s products were
line and has already signed export contracts with presented at the international exhibition CISMEF in Guang-
contractors for whom the obtaining of this certificate zhou, where two major Chinese tea producers and a large
was a key issue. trading company became interested in the products of the
regional enterprise.
Today, no more than 830 mixed feed factories in the
world have GMP+ certificates. In addition, the Centre At the end of 2019, the Centre held consultations with the
helped the enterprise to obtain a Halal certificate involvement of third-party experts, as well as provided
for further work on the markets of the Middle East. A services for finding partners in Germany, preparing and
request for the horse feed supply to the United Arab reviewing the contract. The result of the work was the con-
Emirates is currently being processed. clusion of a contract for a total amount of 30 million rubles.

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