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Latvia’s Aloja Starkelsen starch maker has made first shipments to South Korea

BC, Riga, 18.01.2017.Print version
The Swedish-owned Latvian potato starch maker Aloja Starkelsen this year has already sent the first test shipments to South Korea, the company’s board member Janis Garancs told LETA.

He said that the company keeps looking for new markets. As the company’s positions have already be strengthened in Western Europe and the US, Aloja Starkelsen is expanding its operation to the Asian countries and started selling its products in China.


Exports to China have increased this year and the first test shipments have been made to South Korea.


He said that Aloja Starkelsen is selling organic potato starch in Asia, but in the future it plans to expand its product portfolio.


According to Garancs, the company this year plans to focus on increasing production and sales, and not so much on expansion to new markets.


As reported, Aloja-Starkelsen generated EUR 7.621 mln in turnover in the past financial year from September 1, 2015, to August 31, 2016, and increased its profit 20.8% to EUR 287,850, according to Firmas.lv business information website.


Founded in 1991, Aloja-Starkelsen is 97.93-% owned by Swedish company Sveriges Starkelseproducenter Forening.






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