A new tea producer is the Dnipro company Capsoul LLC, part of Andrey Zdesenko’s Biosphere corporation.
The company launched black, green and mixed tea. They import raw materials from India, Kenya, China and Sri Lanka.
Andrey Zdesenko invested €3 million in the first two tea production lines at the Dnieper enterprise. They managed to equip the workshop in Dnieper in six months - from the beginning of signing a contract with an Italian equipment manufacturing company to the launch of the tea production lines.
The company plans to produce up to 30 tons of tea per month and increase production to 100 tons by autumn. To do this, he will invest another €3 million in equipment at the plant, and then launch coffee production.
In total, in the next two years, Andrei Zdesenko is going to invest €10 million in the food direction of Biosphere.
Investments in the project - both own and credit from Ukrainian banks. In particular, under the state credit program “5-7-9”, of which 5.5% of the amount went to tea production, the rest - to the development of the entire company.
Graff tea will be sold in the “medium plus” segment, and competitors will be Monomax, Lovare and Three Elephants. The cost of one package of Graff black tea in bags will be 59 UAH, in sachets – 77 UAH. While the cost of Monomax tea is 35 UAH at Maudau and 40 UAH at Rozetka.