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PrJSC MHP

Ukraine's leading international food & agrotech company with headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ12123536 ↗
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PrJSC MHP (Ukrainian: ПрАТ МХП; PrJSC «MHP») is a Ukrainian food and agritech company, employing over 32,000 people in Ukraine and abroad, MHP is ranked among the top 10 employers in Ukraine, according to Forbes Ukraine in 2024.

MHP, headquartered in Kyiv, operates in agriculture, food production, and retail, with manufacturing facilities in Ukraine and the Balkans, as well as subsidiaries in the Netherlands, the UK, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other EU countries. In 2008, MHP became the first Ukrainian agricultural company to secure foreign equity capital through an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

The company was founded by Yuriy Kosyuk, who is the chairman.

Operations

The board of directors includes Yuriy Kosyuk, Viktoriia Kapeliushna, Andriy Bulakh, John Rich, and independent non-executive directors Christakis Taoushanis, Philip J. Wilkinson, and Oscar Chemerinski.

MHP is the largest poultry producer in Europe and 8th in the world, according to the WATT Poultry International ranking.

The company exports over 50% of its products to more than 70 countries, with key markets in the Middle East, the European Union, and Africa, with over 25 logistics hubs in Ukraine and abroad. Additionally, MHP is one of Ukraine’s leading exporters of vegetable oils.

MHP has over 15 product brands, including Nasha Ryaba, Apetytna, Super Fileo, Lehko!, Bashchynskyi, Skott Smeat, RyabChick, Domestic chicken, Ukrainian Chicken, Kurator, and international food brands Qualiko, Sultanah, Assilah, Al-Hassana and others.

History

1998 — Yuriy Kosyuk founded Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP).

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This entry incorporates text from “PrJSC MHP” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.