“Slavutich” company starts cooperation with a domestic producer of hops. The company will purchase the first batch of the Ukrainian granulated hops in the amount of 678 kg (alpha acid) from “Schedry Urozhay” agricultural firm. The volume of the batch being purchased makes up 2.5% of “Slavutich” annual demand in hops.

“Slavutich” company has a single list of requirements for raw materials suppliers regardless of a country of origin. After being audited at the research center of “Carlsberg” in Strasbourg (France) the products of each new supplier are launched into production. Each brewery’s laboratory of Carlsberg group checks incoming inspection of raw materials, key parameters at each stage of production, as well as indices of finished products. Only after the company is confident in the stability of quality characteristics of raw materials the supplier has an opportunity to take part in the tender and if it is satisfactory to get a yearlong contract.

The hops of “Schedry Urozhay” has passed all the necessary stages of the internal check of Carlsberg group and meets the approved specification according to the conclusion of the internal audit. For its strategic cooperation “Schedry Urozhay” actively works at further production development, implementation of the quality management system and elimination of the defects identified during the audit of the company “Slavutich”, Carlsberg Group.

It should be reminded that this cooperation was the result of meeting of the beer industry leaders with representatives of the Association of the hop growers of Ukraine which was held in February 2011. During the negotiations “Slavutich” and other industry representatives expressed their intention to go fully over the Ukrainian hops if the domestic raw materials will meet the brewers’ requirements. Among more than 10 Ukrainian suppliers who participated in the event only “Schedry Urozhay” agricultural firm expressed its desire to continue negotiations and fulfill necessary procedures for cooperation.

Ruslan Melnik, National Top Brewer at “Slavutich”, Carlsberg Group: “Our technologists are generally satisfied with the supplier’s work. Currently, the agricultural firm is eliminating our comments on the audit, and we will start the practical part of our cooperation immediately. We hope that after testing the Ukrainian hops our desire to work with domestic suppliers will be realized in the long-term partnership.”