Agro-Soyuz is a leading provider of technical services and spare parts in Ukraine, with over 23 years of experience. It supports over 20,000 agricultural, manufacturing, transport and mining companies. Agro-Soyuz has a network of over 800 suppliers and 51 branch offices across Ukraine. Its core strengths include expertise in CIS machinery, logistics capabilities through its 35,000 square meter warehouses, and an individualized approach to customers. Going forward, Agro-Soyuz aims to expand its product range and improve customer service through new IT systems and online tools.
2. Business overview
Company Agro-Soyuz is a multibrand technician reliable after-
sales services and spare parts provider. We support technical
professionals to face the challenges everyday. The company
collaborates with more than 20000 ag companies, farmers,
manufacturing, transport, mining companies in Ukraine to help
them become high-performance business.
3. History
1991 Founded distribution business of spare parts for agricultural
machinery and trucks
1992- Opened first branches in Ukraine.
1993 - Established delivery department. Service range grew with
delivery spare parts to all clients.
1994-2001 Expanding branch net throughout Ukraine.
2003 - Started export operations of agricultural spare parts to Europe
2004 - Put into operations logistic center Agro-Star Logistic (20 000
sq.m.)
2005 Established department of after-sales services of agricultural
machinery
2008 Redesigned the biggest branches into Spare parts
supermarkets. Expanded brand portfolio with HANIA, HOWO,
Buhler Versatile.
2009-2013 Became official distributor of KAMAZ. Expanded products
range, network of after-sales services centers in Ukraine.
4. Service and distribution in numbers
Foundation 1991
Product range 24 000 SKU
Supply network more than 800 partners
Orders per day 1 000
Customers 24 000
Revenue
Stock
Coverage 24 from 27 regions, 51 branch offices
Sales staff 217 people
Service teams 15
5. Ukraine: facts and figures
Total area 603550 sq. km (71,2% agricultural area)
27% of world black soils located in Ukraine
Potential capability to feed 600 mio people in the
world
Corn export - 2nd place in the world
Sunflower oil export - 1st place in the world
32 mio Ha arable area, 19 mio Ha is employed in
agriculture operations
6. Agricultural business trends
M&A deal as the main way of horizontal integration for agricultural holdings with
farmland over 50 000 Ha.
Strategic goals of customers are:
to increase profit per hectare,
to enhance business performance.
Enlargement land banks by middle size customers from 20 000 Ha to 50 000 Ha.
Cluster (division) management system expansion.
IT systems implementation for human factor minimizing.
Agricultural machinery performance improvement.
Majority of agricultural machinery (94%) is still locally produced (CIS production), but
international brands presence is growing every year and process of equipment
renovation is going.
Shortage of agricultural machinery and average deprecation rate is between 60 and
70% of total agricultural machinery.
Lack of qualified staff on the field and in operational top and middle management.
Vertical integration as part of customers strategy field granary processing retail
shelf.
Sustainable growth on logistic service market for agricultural commodities.
7. Agricultural market overview
Farmland (ths.Ha)
Segment name Management system Machinery depreciation
From To
0,5 12,0
Small ag
producer
Usually single owner, who is CEO. He takes
responsibility for lots questions. His duties are
technology, machinery, sale, supply and other
More than 70%
depreciation rate. Rare
machinery renovation.
12,0 30,0
Middle ag
producer
Companies have 2-level of management system.
Owner and farms. Nearby several farms are
consolidated in company. Budgeting presents.
More than 70%
depreciation rate. Every 3
year machinery
renovation.
30,0 + Holding
Holding companies. Farmlands are deversified on
Ukraine. Companies have 2-level and 3-level of
management system. Burocracy system. Strategy
presents.High stuff turnover on middle and top
levels.
More than 50%
depreciation rate. Every
year machinery
renovation.
2 793
7 519
91 112655
17 043
1 668
7 634
From 0 ths.Ha To
ths.Ha 0,5
From 0,5 ths.Ha To
ths.Ha 12
From 12 ths.Ha To
ths.Ha 30
30 ths.Ha +
Customer segmentation
Quantity of
agricultural
companies, pcs.
Farmland, ths.Ha
8. Machinery in Ukraine*
* Agro- Soyuzs CRM data
TOTAL Customer machinery
433 000 Units
World brands
25 000 Units / 6%
CIS brands
408 000 Units / 94%
John
Deere;
17%
CASE;
12%
Claas;
11%
DAF; 8%
Mercedes
Benz; 6%
MAN; 5%
Other;
41%
World brands
MTZ;
13%
XTZ;
6%
UMZ;
4%
GAZ;
20%
KamAZ;
9%ZIL; 8%
UAZ;
4%
MAZ;
4%
Other;
32%
CIS brands
9. Competitive environment
Ukrainian ag machinery market has a high potential value growth according to forecasts (market growth
8-12% annually) of world machinery brands (JD, CNH, AGCO etc). They have expanded dealers
networks in Ukraine. There are present original and replacement spare parts. Also there are national
producers and distributors of CIS ag machinery and trucks (Technotorg, Omegaavtopostavka,
Ukravtozapchast). They could be also dealers of world brands. Market is flooded with contraband of
spare parts. Market consists of big number of small local companies who provides spare parts for ag
machinery and trucks. After-sales services have poor quality. Approximately market value of ag
machinery spare parts and after-sales services is 250 mio per year.
Company Products Brands
John Deere and
dealers
Ag machinery + spare parts + services John Deere
CNH and dealers Ag machinery + spare parts + services Case , New Holland
AGCO and dealers Ag machinery + spare parts + services Fendt, Challenger, Massey
Fergusson
Technotorg Ag machinery + truck + spare parts +
services
KamAZ, MTZ, XTZ, Rostselmash,
New Holland
OmegaAvtoPostavka Spare parts for cars and trucks GAZ, KamAZ, KAMA, DK
UkrAvtoZapchast Ag machinery + truck + spare parts +
services
MTZ, Foton, KamAZ
12. Customers groups
Database
24 100 customers
12 900 Active base
11 200 Non-Active base*
5 600 Ag.
7 300 Other
5 400 Ag.
5 800 Other
54%
23%
31%
46%
22%
24%
* Non-active base customers were out of orders in 2013
Focus on
Agriculture
Second priority
Manufacturing
Transport
Utilities
Development
Mining
Service
stations
13. Agro-Soyuzs deliverable stock in 2013
CIS's brands stock
items
Share, %
Other brands 49%
Universal items 15%
GAZ 14%
舒仄Z 10%
YAMZ, Z 6%
丐Z 6%
TOTAL stock 25 267 SKU
* Items are used with different equipment
4413
6911
16543
CIS's
brands
stock items
World's
brands
stock items
Universal
items*
14. Management team
Position Name Education Experience
CEO Alexander Zhuk KIBIT (MBA) Former CEO Sea
Group
Director Andrey Korneev State inst. of
management of
education
Former CEO Sea
Trade
Director Vitaliy Krytin Dnepropetrovsk
state agriculture
university
Former Head of
analytical dep.
Agro-Soyuz
Director Oleg Barzion State inst.
aftergraduate
education
Former CFO of
Pharmacy
distribution
company
Director Dmitriy Iyevlyev KMBS (MBA) Former Board
Member JSC
Plant Fregat
15. Core strengths
Individual approach to the customer
Brand awareness (23 year on Ukraine market)
Closer to end customer (~ 24 thousand clients)
CIS machinery product expertise
Synergy (spare parts + after-sales services + technical support)
Logistics (35 000 m2 warehouses in Ukraine regions)
Transparency (auditing financial statements)
Equity structure (Horizon Capital)
16. Mission
We are connecting suppliers network through
wide retail chain to technician professionals
to provide them products and services in
responsiveness and convenient way through IT
platform, using individual approach.
17. Strategy
1) Expand range of deliverable stock of original and
replacement spare parts for world brand machinery
according to projected demand.
2) Improve product range management system and
implement new logistics system.
3) Develop on-line tools for increasing customer usability
of ordering system.
4) Expand after-sales service range and geography.
5) Develop online monitoring platform to improve service
performance.
6) Implement key account management approach.