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"Poultry welfare, biosafety and quality management is our priority. We have invested in it EUR 4.5 million," said the company’s board chairman Andrius Pranckevicius.

The company said that Kekava with about 40% market share is the leader in the marinated meat segment in Latvia. Continuing investments in poultry welfare and quality management, the company for the first time has started offering marinated poultry with a label "Raised Without Antibiotics" to the market.

Kekava said that consumption of antibiotics in the company is one of the lowest in the EU and on the same level as in such quality leaders as Norway, Iceland and Sweden. 90% of birds on average are raised without catching diseases and without use of antibiotics.

Poultry labeled "Raised Without Antibiotics" is available in the Latvian and Lithuanian markets and will soon be exported also to Estonia.

As reported, Kekava posted EUR 57.2019 million in turnover last financial year, which continued from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016. The company's loss reached EUR 314,181.

Kekava Poultry Farm was founded in 1991, the company's share capital is EUR 18,928,084. Lithuania's Linas Agro Group holds 87% of the company's shares.