cheese,
Retail chains,
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Retail chains partially resumed cheese deliveries to stores
Cheese logistics is getting better, retail chains have partially resumed direct deliveries to stores, despite the inoperability of shopping malls in many regions. Shelves of working stores have almost been cleaned out from imported products.
Cheese makers in Central and Western Ukraine are able to meet the current demand for cheese as it is already limited due to the departure of consumers from the occupied and front-line territories. Relatively good sales are in Western Ukraine where migrants have moved.
Cheese prices remain mostly unchanged.
Exports of cheese and cheese products are scarce, limited to deliveries to Moldova.
In any case, cheese exports this month will be quite insignificant.
As for imports, they were still significant in February despite high prices. It was imported 3.6 thousand tons of rennet cheese (including 1.5 thousand tons of hard/semi-hard cheese) and 600 tons of processed cheese. Most of the imported cheese in February has either been sold out, or is stuck somewhere in the distribution warehouses. Most likely, cheese will be brought from Europe as humanitarian aid.
In February the lion's share of cheese exports (including analogue cheese) account for Kazakhstan (75%), there were also supplies to Moldova (21%).
Imported rennet cheese in February came from Poland (41%), Germany (13%), France (12%), the Netherlands (11%), Italy (8%) and other countries (15%).