A winery in northern Odesa Oblast has been put up for sale for 24 million

The Regional Branch of the State Property Fund of Ukraine for the Odesa and Mykolaiv Regions has put the single property complex of the state-owned enterprise "Kotovskyi Winery" up for auction.

The corresponding announcement was published on the Prozorro.Sales platform. 

The property has been put up for sale with a starting price of 24 million 821.5 thousand hryvnias. The auction is scheduled for July 28. The single property complex of the state-owned enterprise “Kotovskyi Winery” includes 19 real estate properties (buildings, structures); 177 items of movable property; two vehicles; and one unfinished construction project (design documentation for a residential building).

In February, the Regional Branch of the State Property Fund of Ukraine for the Odesa and Mykolaiv Regions announced an auction for the sale of the Saratsky Winery. The starting price for the lot was 10,168,600 hryvnias. Only one company participated in the auction—DEN WINE—which emerged as the winner by offering 10,169,100 hryvnias. It is known that the company’s owner,Stepan Denov, had previously leased the enterprise.

 In 2023, the Regional Branch of the State Property Fund of Ukraine for the Odesa and Mykolaiv Regions announced that it was preparing three wineries in the Odesaregion for privatization. These were the Bolhrad, Sarat, and Kotovsk wineries.

At that time, the Fund already had experience privatizing a winery in the Odesa region. Specifically, on June 27, 2023, the State Property Fund heldits second online privatization auction forthe sale of the Izmail Winery. The participants were: Limited Liability Company “Electronic Trading Technologies,” LLC “Vega Agro Trade Plus,” and LLC “Blackburn-Trade-Plus.”

However, in November 2024, the Antimonopoly Committee suspected two firms of collusion during the auction for the sale of the Izmail Winery in the Odesa region. The companies in question were “Vega Agro Trade Plus” and “Grainderis” (formerly “Blackburn-Trade-Plus”). Following a preliminary investigation, the Antimonopoly Committee identified possible signs of coordinated actions among these auction participants, which could indicate a violation of competition laws.

Кирило Бойко