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The group was founded in 2005 in the union of the APC "Cherkizovsky" and APC "Mikhaylovskiy".
In May 2011, Cherkizovo completed the acquisition of 100% of Mosselprom, a company specializing in the production of poultry products. It costed Cherkizovo $252.9 million, of which $183.8 million was Mosselprom's debt. Part of the deal was paid for with shares of Cherkizovo itself.
In March 2014, Cherkizovo Group acquired the largest Voronezh poultry meat producer LISKO Broiler. According to Kommersant newspaper, the deal was worth 5 billion rubles. Thus, Cherkizovo became the largest producer of poultry meat in Russia: as a result of the acquisition of LISKO Broiler (about 95 thousand tons of meat per year), the company's poultry capacity reached 550 thousand tons, ahead of the previous leader, Prioskolye (470 thousand tons per year).
In December 2018, Cherkizovo bought an asset in Siberia for 4.6 billion roubles ($70 million) from its local rival ZAO Prioskolie.
In December 2021, Cherkizovo announced 100% asset consolidation of "Tambovskaya Indeyka" LLC, by buying back 50% of capital of Spanish "Grupo Fuertes" in their joint LLC. In January 2022, the deal wal closed and thereby "Grupo Fuertes" increased its stake in the holding company, PJSC "Cherkizovo Group" from 8,58% up to 11,12%.
In February 2022, Cherkizovo announced 8,5 billion roubles of investments in a pig complex in Tambov Oblast, totalling company`s investments in the region by 15 billion roubles since 2013.
From Wikipedia’s article on Cherkizovo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3