Cherkizovo poultry meat sales up eight percent

The Cherkizovo group, one of Russia’s leading meat and meat-product outfits, increased poultry meat sales 8% to 99,860 tonnes in the first half, the company said in a statement.

The average poultry-meat price rose 5% to $2.30 per kilo in H1 from $2.19 in H1 2009 (not counting VAT). In rubles, the price was down 4% year-on-year at 69.11 rubles from 72.32 rubles. This, the company said, reflects a return to normal pricing from usually high prices in 2009.