The acquisitions are the first investments the company has ever made in storage infrastructure outside the Constanta county.
The trader has silos and stores in Constanta that can keep 544,000 tons of grain. This capacity is 3% of the storage capacity of the entire country.
“Ameropa Grains is expanding its footprint in the Romanian grain origination market and has just finalized the purchases of two new grain locations – a grain store in Macin and one in Dor Marunt,” the Swiss group website reads.
The trader did not provide any more details about this deal and the local officials of Ameropa did not comment on the information, either.
The grain stores that Ameropa bought in Macin and Dor Marunt have a capacity of no more than 20,000 tons, which means the deals should be worth up to EUR2 million, according to ZF’s calculations.
Ameropa Grains sees more than EUR400 million revenue from its Romanian operations and Andreas Zivy also owns chemical fertilizer producer Azomures.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)