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Investment Proposals of Nur-Sultan Сiту INVESTMENT PROPOSALS OF NUR-SULTANСIТУ ASTANA INVEST CONTENT FOOD INDUSTRY Production of baby food 3 Production of bakery products 5 WOODWORKING AND PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY Furniture production 6 Production of furniture accessories 8 Production of wallpaper 9 CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Production of paint products 10 Production of plastic products 11 Production of rubber products 12 AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Beef production 13 Production of sausages and meat products 15 Advanced wheat processing 17 Construction of a greenhouse 19 Top smart spot spray system 21 CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Ready-build factory 22 Production of basalt fibre thermal insulation 23 Production of ceramic coating and plates 25 Production of electrodes 26 Production of metal fasteners 27 ENGINEERING Production of elevators 28 TRADE Outlet Center 29 ENERGETICS Small solar power plants 30 Optimization of heating costs 31 OTHERS Optoculus innovative security system 32 PRODUCTION OF BABY FOOD General Classification of Types of Economic Activity 10.86.0 «Production of baby food and dietary food products» Currently, Kazakhstan’s baby food products market mainly PROJECT DESCRIPTION: represented by foreign production. For Kazakhstan companies, the niche in food production remains Construction of a complex for the undeveloped. The main suppliers of baby food to production of baby food products Kazakhstan are the European Union (EU) and Russia. Exports with a capacity of 25 thousand tons made to the countries of Central Asia and China. per year (15 thousand tons of baby food based on cereals and 10 Baby food import in Kazakhstan in 2018 thousand tons based on vegetables). Import of cereals, Homogenized MANUFACTURED PRODUCT million US dollars vegetables, thousand Porridges - dry and ready-made; US dollars Homogenized vegetables for baby food; Russia Soups and bouillons. Switzerland 18,2 494 Russia 14,9 Poland 414 GLOBAL MARKET Netherlands 2,8 Great Britain 7 Based on imports porridges are in the highest demand in the Germany 2 Belarus 4 world. The average annual growth rate of the porridge market others* 0,8 over the past 5 years is about 9%. *Belarus, Finland, Spain, Portugal, USA and Kyrgyzstan Import of soups and bouillons, thousand US dollars Global import of child and dietary food Russia 490 Poland 244 Estonia 44 *Slovenia, Belarus, 11 858,7 Finland 36 Great Britain, 10 862,7 9941,5 others* 45 Germany, Italy 9570,1 8466,5 Baby food export from Kazakhstan in 2018 92,1 616,8 80,6 87,7 514,7 479 545,4 82,2 514,7 95,3 Cereals, thousand US dollars Tajikistan 4 742 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Kyrgyzstan 3 602 soups and homogenized vegetables cereals Turkmenistan 1 830 for baby food bouillons Mongolia 636 REGIONAL MARKET China 119 Uzbekistan 9 Imports of cereals, soups, bouillons and vegetable products for babies increased in 2019, especially imports of vegetable Homogenized vegetables, Soups and bouillons, products and soups and broths. thousand US dollars thousand US dollars Kyrgyzstan 18 Baby food import in Kazakhstan in 2019 Kyrgyzstan 102 Mongolia 8 Mongolia 30 39 Tajikistan 6 cereals weight, Tajikistan 10 6,6 Turkmenistan 2 thousand tons Uzbekistan 1 homogenized vegetables 8,2 for baby food 1,5 soups 17918,2 7,6 cost, PRODUCTION 1,4 million US dollar and bouillons Production of cereals, porridge and other products from cereals, vegetable crops and vegetables in Kazakhstan Baby food import dynamics in Kazakhstan, million remains stable, but there is a tendency to decrease US dollars production. Volumes of production of vegetables processed and 49,9 canned, except for potatoes, tons 39,6 38,6 37 35,6 26 058 24 287 1,4 0,9 0,9 1,2 0,7 19 433 0,3 1,1 0,9 0,5 0,4 Republic of 18 972 15 045 Kazakhstan 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Nur-Sultan 151 soups and 71 20 20 homogenized vegetables cereals 16 for baby food bouillons 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 3 PRODUCTION OF BABY FOOD Volumes of production of flour Production volumes from grain and vegetable crops and Import of baby food packed for retail sales of nearby canned vegetables mixtures of fine grinding, thousand countries, 2018 Kazakhstan, tons tons 333,1 China 4 888,5 43,3 2015 4 552 Russia 2016 4 521 3 974,1 3 910,1 3 803,1 239,9 3 692,1 3,3 2017 9 775 Ukraine 3 308,2 20,8 2018 10 477 160 148,1 136,2 134,3 132,2 Uzbekistan 6,1 2019 7 650 34,9 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 others* 7,5 48,3 thousand tons million US dollar Republic of Nur-Sultan Kazakhstan *Azerbaijan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Mongolia,Turkmenistan MANUFACTURERS In Nur-Sultan city, the main manufacturers are small COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES enterprises («AB baby food» LLP, «ECOPROT» LLP, «Factory Raw material base availability; of medical biotechnology» LLP). To date, the first and Potential import substitution and product export; only enterprise in Kazakhstan for the production of baby State support for investors and entrepreneurs. milk nutrition is the factory of the Kazakh Academy of STATE SUPPORT MEASURERS nutrition «Amiran». The assortment of baby food in supermarkets is represented by such Investment preferences TAX brands as NESTLE (Switzerland), NUTRICIA (Netherlands), HEINZ (USA), BIBIKOL (Russia), Humana (Germany). Exemption from customs duties (0% up to 5 years for import); Tax incentives (VAT, corporate income tax, land tax, property tax - 0%); RAW MATERIAL BASE In-kind grants (land, buildings and structures, etc.); The main grain crops in Kazakhstan are wheat and barley. Akmola Hiring foreign labor . region is the leader of the Republic in terms of gross harvest of cereals and legumes in 2018 (28.3%). Special economic zone preferences Gross collection of cereals harvest (excluding rice) and legumes, million tons Tax preferences (CIT, land tax, tax on property); Customs preferences (import of raw materials and equipment); 20,6 20,6 Land with a ready-made infrastructure (gratuitous rent of a salary); 20,3 Republic of 18,7 Simplified procedure for hiring foreign labor (hiring of foreign 17,2 Kazakhstan 5 5 4,8 labor out of quotas). 4,6 4,5 Akmola region 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Business roadmap - 2025 In Kazakhstan formed a stable growth dynamics of vegetable products. In 2019, the total amount of vegetable production Subsidies (base rate of National Bank + 5%, of which 6% collected in the surrounding regions was 661 thousand tons. paid by the entrepreneur, and the difference is subsidized by the state); Gross collection of vegetables in Kazakhstan, thousand tons Guarantee (project amount up to 1 billion KZT for working entrepreneurs, guarantee up to 50%); Infrastructure supplying. 3 615,7 3 905,8 4 138,3 open field 3 635,7 Economics of simple things 3 417,3 % 216,9 176,2 175,4 159,5 147,7 under cover Subsidies (rate not more than 15%, subsidy up to 9% of loan interest rates); 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 oper. Guarantee (up to 50% on loans up to 3 billion KZT and up to 30% data on loans over 3 and up to 5 billion KZT inclusive). Gross collectiob of vegetables in nearby reions in 2019, State support measures for thousand tons Kazakhstan manufactures through «Kazakhstan Industry and Export Pavlodar region 226,3 Center «QazIndustry» JSC North-Kazakhstan region 203,7 Karaganda region 105,9 Reimbursement of part of expenses to subjects of industrial and Kostanay region 71,2 innovative activity: Akmola region 54 to increase labor productivity and territorial clusters development; to promotion domestic processed goods in foreign market; POTENTIONAL SALES MARKET to promotion domestic processed goods, works and services in The total volume of porridge imports for babies of neighboring internal market. countries in 2018 amounted to 5.2 billion us dollars (393.3 thousand tons). The Chinese market accounts for more than 93% of imports. 4 PRODUCTION OF BAKERY PRODUCTS PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Leading regions for the production of fresh bread in 2018, tons Turkestan region 136 674 Establishment of a small bakeries Almaty 77 002 chain/production plant of various Karaganda region 67 487 bakery products. Zhambyl region 64 797 Aktobe region 45 279 East Kazakhstan region 42 691 MARKET ANALYSIS Kostanay region 41 874 Pavlodar region 36 230 According to the structure of the minimum living wage in the The top 5 regions of producers of West Kazakhstan region Republic of Kazakhstan, flour products are in the top 3 food products 36 014 bakery products are the southern Akmola region of Kazakhstan citizens. The bakery products market in Kazakhstan is 28 689 regions, Karaganda and Aktobe self-sufficient, the share of imports is insignificant. In monetary Almaty region 28 509 regions. In this regard, it is possible terms, imports exceed exports by more than 6.5 times. North Kazakhstan region 21 231 to export bakery products to the Shymkent 21 529 Capacity of bakery Export and import of bakery nearby Northern regions. Also, Atyrau region 16 818 there is a noticeably limited products market of the products of the Republic of Nur-Sultan 16 316 production of this product in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, in thousands of US Kyzylorda region 9 551 capital, given its population of tons dollars Mangystau region 6 346 more than 1 million people. 729 964 17 512 2016 2016 277 121 240 Bakery products market in Nur-Sultan city 18 923 711 729 2017 5% 2017 333 135 754 Market volume of Nur-Sultan city = 703 037 21 640 12% 1 078 384 (population of Nur-Sultan city 2018 2018 282 149 945 2019) * 200 (gr. norm for 1 person) * 20 (KZT price per 100 gr.) * 365 (days) = 15,7 production import import export import billion KZT or 78 722 tons per year.
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