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There were several private meat processors in the age of Polish Brest-on-the-Bug. One of them was Ignacy Petkiewicz, who back in 1930 got permission from the municipal authorities to convert a part of a residential house into a sausage shop which would become a production facility of the Brest Meat Processing Plant once thereafter. November 19, 1939 is considered to be the company birthday. It was the day when a slaughterhouse on Jagiellonskaya Street in Brest was first ever recorded on the Register of Employees of Institutions and Enterprises. The company was incorporated in the Western Belarusian meat and dairy industry, directly subordinate to the Meat Industry Trust in Bialystok. The first official address was number 135 on Moskovskaya Street. The first CEO – Abram Girshin, Director. The total staff by the end of 1939 – 71.

During the Second World War the German occupants kept the former slaughterhouse on Moskovskaya Street, as well as sausage production premises on Kuybyshev, Pushkinskaya and Urvannaya streets, working, but destroyed all the machinery and blew the buildings up when retreated. The city liberated, a special commission was formed to assess the suffered damage, and it summed up to nearly 3 million Soviet roubles. In 1946 Vasily Rudkov from Syzran came to manage the renovated Brest Meat Processing Plant. The company received 400,000 roubles to build new premises, and the staff almost tripled from 28 to 73, as well as the gross output to that of the previous year. A slaughterhouse in Pruzhany provided 40% of the raw products.

The first refrigerating line was commissioned. It was not until then that the premises erected in the Count Berg Fort before the First World War were redesigned and employed as a meat storage. By the early 1970s the range of meat and sausage products made by the Brest Meat Processing Plant included over 50 product types. The staff reached 801.

Andrey Yanko came to manage the company. A new meat-and-fat processing facility was commissioned. A gallery connected it up to the refrigerator. The new premises increased the daily output to 100 tons. The boiler was converted from oil fuel to natural gas. The sausage shop got refurnished. The conveyor line was upgraded. Only the governmental order required 8-10 tons of fresh meat products to be supplied to Moscow every day.

A culinary facility was started to produce and pack dumplings. 18 months thereafter the first own vacuum sausage packaging machine was bought. Consum shop in vicinity of the company seat and Veras shop in the Brest centre made the beginning of the brand store chain. Two own cafes, Julienne and Feya, were opened.

Yakov Bukhovetsky came to preside over the company. The plant returned to full-day and full-week work cycle. Production premises and auxiliary facilities underwent upgrading. The staff issue had been solved with the payroll increase from 400 to 700 and the salary grown up to the top level for the city. It was the time when a major product, “Vengerskiy” cervelat, was introduced to the market. Production waste processing was stopped, which significantly improved environmental conditions in a number of districts of Brest.

A new series of MEAT PILLOWS extended the production range. These are uniquely shaped dumplings made from refrigerated meat which required a dedicated line to be purchased at a trade fair in Germany. Other major new products introduced were Kremliovskiy cervelat (2009) and Finskiy cervelat (2010).

Pavel Bukhovetsky became the CEO at the Brest Meat Processing Plant in March 2007. His main goal was to make the company the top meat processor in Belarus, and he succeeded as far as to lead the industry 7 years thereafter, according to the figures of 2013. Brest Meat Processing Plant shows the highest productivity and sales in regards to production and financial performance. One of the keys to successful management is the integral interaction system. Other matters of top priority are product quality and employee motivation system.

The company has got another production site, in Kobrin, which added 2000 tons of meat products per month. In 2015 packaging and corporate identity was entirely rebranded.

Semi-finished product facility was commissioned to increase the monthly capacity up to 1000 tons of dumplings and pierogi. A series of jelly products was launched in 2018. Meat spreads were introduced in 2021.