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Moscow Exchange (MOEX). Share prices of retail and consumer goods sector at 19.04.2023, 14:00 MSK

Toxins and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were found in several shipments of corn from Ukraine to Hungary. This was announced on Monday

On May 10, Rosrybolovstvo will consider at a meeting of the Scientific and Commercial Council of the Northern Fisheries Basin a proposal to completely ban commercial salmon fishing in the White Sea.

The trade turnover between China and Russia in the first quarter amounted to $53.84 billion, which is 38.7% more than in the same period in 2022.

The popularity of devices for the "smart" home continues to grow - sales of smart gadgets for security in January-March of this year increased in the group "M.Video-Eldorado"

The Swedish vodka manufacturer Absolut and the French concern Pernod Ricard, which owns it, will resume the supply of alcohol to Russia.

Sales of Russian trucks in the first quarter increased by more than 20 percent, to 26.7 thousand cars. Kommersant writes about this.

The Abrau-Durso Group of Companies will launch new vodka and rum, tonic and energy drinks on the market this year, as well as open its own nursery of seedlings,

The price of white sugar futures on the London stock Exchange rose by 4.7 percent to $ 705.5 per ton. This is the maximum level since 2011.

Due to the difficulties of leaving the Russian market, the French company Danone is going to at least abandon the use of global brands, and as a replacement for Activia and Aktimel

Recently, there has been a shortage of cork oak corks in Russia, which are used in champagne bottles. This is reported by Baza with reference to several wine producers at once.

The growth of parallel imports to Russia has led to a shortage of warehouses in the CIS countries, the volume of requests from Russian companies

In 2022, Israel became the world leader in vodka imports from Russia. The largest importer of Russian alcoholic beverage was named by RIA Novosti based on data from the UN Comtrade platform.

Bonduelle has officially announced its withdrawal from the Rusbrand business Association. It was assumed that the company would stop paying contributions as early as 2024. 

In 2022, the share of imports in the wholesale turnover of food products (including alcohol and tobacco) increased by 4.1 percentage points to 18.7 percent