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Estonia's E-piim to sell EUR 2 mln worth of cheese to Japan

BC, Tallinn, 13.01.2017.Print version
Estonian milk producer E-piim has signed an agreement worth 2 million euros, according to which the company will deliver 500 tons of cheese to a Japanese partner in the first half of the year and the Estonian company expects to enter into another agreement already in the second half of the year, the daily Postimees reports citing LETA/BNS.

E-piim has entered into a long-term contract with a Japanese cooperation partner and will deliver 500 tons of Gouda cheese in the first half of 2017. According to E-piim CEO Jaanus Murakas it is definitely great and important news since the company has worked hard for it and is finally seeing results.


According to Murakas the company will deliver one container a week. The volume of the contract is around 2 mln euros and a new contract is planned to be signed in the second half of the year. Murakas could not say what the details of the next contract will be. E-piim produces 8,000 tons of cheese a year.


Previously Estonian milk producers have sold only test batches to Japan. This is the first bigger long-term agreement with Japanese entrepreneurs.





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