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The Ariant company is one of the largest agro-industrial holdings in Russia, which for 2017 includes an agricultural company and a wine holding.
As TAdviser found out at the end of September 2025, the food holding "Ariant Group" closed 2024 with net losses in the amount of 45.97 billion rubles. For comparison, in 2023, the company showed 186.02 million rubles of net profit. Gross profit decreased by more than five times - from 141 million rubles to 26.62 million rubles.
The group's revenue for 2024 in the accounting documentation is indicated in the amount of 30.07 million rubles against 171.05 million rubles a year earlier, which corresponds to a fall of 82.4%. The cost of sales collapsed by 88.5% - from 30.05 million rubles to 3.46 million rubles. Commercial expenses decreased from 83.36 million rubles to 52.46 million rubles, that is, by 37.1%. Management expenses fell by 58.1% - from 59.29 million rubles to 24.86 million rubles. Other income decreased 3.6 times - from 333.61 million rubles to 92.64 million rubles. At the same time, other expenses soared from 147.61 million rubles to 46.04 billion rubles: this is due to the seizure of the assets of Ariant Group of Companies in favor of the state.
Revenues from the sale of products, goods, works and services on an annualized basis decreased by about half - from 138.62 million rubles to 72.24 million rubles. Payments to suppliers (contractors) for raw materials, materials, works and services increased by 4.8% - from 112.96 million rubles to 118.43 million rubles. The costs associated with the remuneration of workers decreased fivefold, amounting to 16.57 million rubles against 85.74 million rubles in 2023.
As of December 31, 2024, receivables are indicated in the amount of 44.64 million rubles: this is 63% less than in the previous year, when it was equal to 120.69 million rubles. At the same time, accounts payable decreased by 77% - from 108.36 million rubles to 24.89 million rubles. Net assets collapsed from 46.06 billion rubles to 91 million rubles.[1]
At the end of 2025, Capital LLC Moscow (), which is owned by RSHB Capital JSC (a subsidiary of the state Rosselkhozbank), expanded its asset portfolio through nationalized holdings. She became the full owner of six companies that previously belonged to the nationalized groups "" and Makfa"Ariant" seized from former owners.
Data on transactions are published in the SPARK-Interfax information system. The acquired assets included:
Kommersant-South Ural reports that even before these transactions, Capital LLC acquired nine former Makfa assets and one Ariant asset. Among them: LLC UK M-Group, Ramkon, Mishkinsky Bread Products Plant, Prostory, Temp Autotech, Arcom, Temp Interservice, Express Cargo, Issuer Consulting and Food Industry Center - Ariant.
According to Kommersant-South Ural, the holding of Makfa JSC and 26 related companies were seized from the former governor of the Chelyabinsk region Mikhail Yurevich and ex-State Duma deputy Vadim Belousov and turned into state revenue by decision of the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk in May 2024.
The total value of these assets exceeds 46 billion rubles. On January 23, 2025, Mishkinsky Product LLC was also turned into state income as part of the collection of dividends and profits from the ex-owners of Makfa.
According to Kommersant-South Ural, the Ariant agricultural holding became the property of the Russian Federation in April 2024 by collecting 105 billion rubles from the families of the former owners of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK) Yuri Antipov and Alexander Aristov.[2][3][4][5]
In March 2026, the details of the deal on the privatization of the Ariant agricultural holding became known. According to the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Vadim Yakovenko, the company was sold for 9.4 billion rubles. However, he did not name the buyer.[6]
Bailiffs in September 2024 began the process of recovering ₽46,6 billion from the Ariant agricultural holding. The proceedings are related to the results of the trial at the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. The recovery is carried out as part of the process of nationalization of the holding, which includes the seizure of its assets and the transfer of property to the state. Information on the start of enforcement proceedings was confirmed by the database of enforcement proceedings and the SBIS service.
According to URA.RU, the proceedings relate to compensation for damage in the recourse order. The database states that the amount of recovery is more than forty-six billion rubles, and the company's accounts have been seized since March 29, 2024. The courts are considering the issue of the prosecutor's claim, which refers to causing losses to the state during the illegal privatization of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK).
The Ariant holding, founded by Alexander Aristov, includes several large enterprises, such as the Yuzhnaya agricultural company, the Ariant Food Industry Center, Kuban-Vino, and the Ariant pork agricultural company. In April 2024, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, all assets of the company were transferred to the state.
Together with Aristov and his son-in-law Alexander Kretov, joint responsibility for the payment of damage in the amount of ₽105 billion is also assigned to their business partners - the Antipovs. This amount, as the publication clarifies, is recovered against losses incurred by the state as a result of the illegal privatization of CHEMK. The enterprise was also nationalised, part of a general campaign to return strategic assets to public ownership.
The former owners of Ariant and CHEMK have repeatedly challenged the legality of the claims of the Prosecutor General's Office and the decision of the courts. Nevertheless, all attempts to suspend the process of nationalization and stop the collection of funds did not lead to success.[7]
The largest wine producer in Russia, Kuban-Vino, has passed into state ownership. Previously, the owner of the company was the Ariant group. This became known in April 2024. Read more here.
At the end of November 2021, it became known that the Ariant group had created a new company, Ariant Spirits, through which it would produce strong alcoholic beverages. Read more here.
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