The story
Founded by Viktor Ivanchyk in 1993.1
1993 - Astarta-Kyiv was founded on March 2, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1994 - April, the company signed a landmark first contract for supplying energy to Ukrainian sugar factories in exchange for sugar.
1997 - The first agricultural subsidiary was established in the Poltava region, Ukraine, and the company started to engage in agricultural production.
1999 - Astarta became a shareholder in the first sugar plant in Ukraine and started producing sugar.
2003-2005 - the company acquired four more sugar plants in Ukraine.
2006 - on May 24, the holding company Astarta Holding N.V. was established under the laws of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
On 17 August, Astarta Holding N.V. made its initial public offering on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The funds raised through the IPO were invested in developing sugar production, improving agricultural technologies and modernising livestock farming.
2008 - Astarta started operations in the Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine, by acquiring one more sugar plant.
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2010 - the company launches a large-scale investment programme to build grain silo infrastructure, a new business. The first two grain silos were constructed and put into operation.
2011-2012 - the company built a new dairy complex for 1300 head of cattle and opened a newly constructed heifer complex for 5000 head of young stock in the Poltava region, Ukraine.
2014 - A processing plant was put into operation in the Poltava region, Ukraine (soybean processing into high-protein meal and soybean oil).
2017 - Astarta established an in-house IT company AgriChain, which started developing a unified digital agribusiness management system in 2018.
2018 - 2019 - the company continues its large-scale investment programme to create silo infrastructure, building and commissioning four more grain silos in the Poltava region, Ukraine. The company also purchased 200 new grain hoppers.
2020 - the company received a certificate of organic production.
2021 - Astarta paid its first dividend of EUR 0.5 per share.
2022 - In March, Astarta and the charity foundation "Believe in Yourself" created the Common Help Ukraine humanitarian platform to help the Ukrainian military and civilians affected by Russian aggression in Ukraine.
In October, the company's corporate headquarters were moved from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Nicosia (Cyprus), and the company continued to list on the Warsaw Stock Exchange as Astarta Holding PLC.
2023 - Astarta marks its 30th anniversary on March 2.
2024 - Astarta became the first company in Ukraine to sign a special investment agreement with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, providing for state support of significant investments aimed at building a plant for the production of soy protein concentrate — a new product for the Ukrainian market. The total investment exceeds USD 80 million.
2025 - Astarta’s Board of Directors approved a new investment project to construct an oilseed processing plant (for soybeans and rapeseed) in Khmelnytskyi region, with a planned capacity of 400,000 tons per year and a total investment of USD 76 million.
2025 - Astarta and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) signed an investment agreement in Kyiv worth USD 40 million to support the construction of Ukraine’s first soy protein concentrate plant.
From Wikipedia’s article on Astarta Holding, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5