A large manufacturer of the fault “Fanagoria” (Porto Negro, Rose de Noirs) launched the sale of the sparkling Brule Fizzante in aluminum banks. Are we keeping up with the times?
As it became known to the correspondent of The Moscow Post, the winery company Fanagoria the other day launched the playful Brule Frizzante in aluminum banks at a price of 250 rubles. for 0.25 l. And earlier the company invested 140 million rubles. In the production of sparkling in banks and now it expects that it will be able to produce about 12 million units of such products per year.
Against the backdrop of the rapid growth of sales of sparkling wine, the company began to produce more drinks in aluminum banks: Fanagoria launched the first line of such products: it is popular due to relative cheapness.
It should be noted that the Kuban company takes more and more space in the vacant “niche”: recently, the Russian market has left several foreign winery companies.
But clearing a place in the sun, the company is faced with some problems that have not even been thought about before.
Not only grapes, but also hotels
Fanagoria is one of the largest Russian wineries with a production volume of more than 2 million a year. The company produces quiet and sparkling wines, brandy, grape vodka. The enterprise has its own bonder workshop, where they produce barrels for exposure of wines and cognacs from the Caucasian oak (age 80 – 120 years).
The main region of work is the Kuban, the company has more than 4 thousand hectares of vineyards. The companies own the hotels “Port. West” and the port. East “: They are located at the village of Taman.
The general director of the company is Peter Romanishin.
Peter Romanishin. Photo: https://vetugolok.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sa2-9.jpg
The official brand was registered on March 15, 2001. The registration application was submitted on October 5, 1999. Exceptional right is valid until October 5, 2029. The copyright holder is a certain V.V. Andrunevchin.
According to Spark in 2022, the main shareholders of the ACE are Evgeny Romanishin (30.68%), Alevtina (24.07%) and Sergey Storozhenko (20.64%).
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In 2023, the company’s revenue amounted to 5.928 billion rubles, net profit – 1 billion rubles.
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But the company has its own vineyards, Russian, and the plugs and souvenir products marked with Fanagoria, the office, orders the office in different countries, as it is, in Hong Kong, France, Italy, Portugal, and UK. And imports into Russia.
And then a whole thriller happened.
Stumbled on traffic jams
We are talking about traffic jams for clamping bottles, glasses, corkscrews, pumps, sommelier sets and other products. At the same time, the Cyprus Fanagoria LTD, which has received Royalti from the Russian company from the Russian company, has been the copyright holder of the trademark.
In January 2022, Krasnodar Customs, checking the next batch of goods, decided that € 8.2 million royalties paid in favor of the Cyprus copyright holder and withheld from payment 113.5 million rubles should be included in their customs value. VAT. This was reported “Kommersant”. Customs included the production of products paid in Cyprus in the Cyprus, which led to an increase in duties by almost 200 million rubles. This entailed the additional charges of customs payments.
The winery “Fanagoria” began to dispute this.
From the point of view of the court of first instance, the disputed amounts of tax are subject to inclusion in the customs value. But the court of appeal refuted the position of the customs authority and indicated that the image of the trademark on the cork is not dominant in comparison with its image on the label of the wine bottle, since it is hidden from the attention of the consumer to the sale of wine. And also imported goods are used as souvenir products, and not to produce directly alcohol products.
The VAT withdrawn from the royalty is connected with the transfer of rights to the brand, which means, in the opinion of the court, it also refers to the price actually paid for the goods.
If in March 2016 the royalties were fixed, then from December 2016 the payment has been calculated at $ 0.15 from each liter of products under this brand, it was noted in judicial acts. That is, finished products are an alcoholic drink packaged in containers, and not imported goods (a cork that ensures the safety of the drink, and souvenirs).
Customs filed a complaint in the Armed Forces.
But the company challenged the decision of the customs.
But the Supreme Court on May 30, 2024 demanded to pay for royalty. I wrote about this RBC.
This is how the confrontation with customs, which lasted 2 years, ended.
247 cases “Fanagoria”
But you can’t call a calm life of a wine company.
Recently, the company has been a member of 247 arbitration cases.
There is data on 72 disputes about contractual relations.
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Nevertheless, in 2023, the branded network “Fanagoria” increased to 180 stores, 20 wineles appeared in the framework of the development of franchising, including in the Far East. And the company plans to open another 15 of its own winery.
The areas of vineyards in 2023 increased by 219 hectares. Life continues. Still eliminate the withdrawal of money to Cyprus for royalties in favor of the copyright holder.