The company "Ripe Fruits" has expanded supplies to Russian regions to two tons per month

MOSCOW, September 3 – RIA Novosti. The capital's company "Ripe Fruits", which has been ripening, sorting, slicing and packaging fresh berries and fruits for more than 20 years, has expanded supplies to Russian regions to two tons per month, said Anatoly Garbuzov, Minister of the Moscow Government, Head of the City Department of Investment and Industrial Policy (DIPP).

“The enterprise joined the investment lending program of the Moscow Fund for the Support of Industry and Entrepreneurship and raised funds to expand the fleet of high-tech equipment. After modernization, it not only increased the volume of fruit and berry processing, but also expanded supplies to the regions of Russia - up to two tons monthly,” the DIPP press service quotes Garbuzov as saying.

The company's assortment includes more than 60 varieties of fruits, berries and vegetables. Among the most popular products are fresh avocados, kiwi, mango, pineapple, and papaya. The main tropical fruits in the line: granadilla, physalis, coconut, passion fruit, rambutan, pitahaya, mangosteen. The product portfolio also includes selected varieties of blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries.

The company supplies its products to Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Tyumen, Rostov-on-Don, Perm and other cities.

According to Sergei Chumichev, General Director of the Moscow Fund for the Support of Industry and Entrepreneurship, the company took advantage of one of the key tools to support the fund - an investment lending program that provides compensation in the amount of 50% of the key rate of the Central Bank of Russia.

He clarified that the maximum period of support can be up to five years, and the loan amount subject to compensation is five billion rubles.

Earlier, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the city's support provides Moscow enterprises with opportunities to expand their sales geography and increase supplies to Russian regions.