Pork Unit To Drive Cherkizovo 2009 Sales

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Leading vertically integrated Russian meat producing and processing company Cherkizovo expects its outperforming pork unit to drive headline volume growth for FY09 (12 months ending December 31 2009). Year-end pork volume sales increased by 38% year-on-year (y-o-y), with Q4 volume growth momentum likely to have been particularly strong after the pork unit registered 23% y-o-y 9M09 growth to reach just under 36,000 tonnes. Coming off a lower base than Cherkizovo's core poultry and meat processing units, pork comfortably outperformed the forecast 4.17% increase in 2009 headline Russian pork production growth to reach 2.15mn