SEKADO spol s.r.o.

The company SEKADO s r.o. was founded in the year 1992, being a commercial company specialised in eastern market, especially the countries of the former USSR.

The activity of the company in the years 1992-1993 was aimed at commodities, which were at the time scarce on this marked and were demanded by our partners. These were food products, building materials and so on. In 1993-1994 the company started to specialise on exporting of so called “Beer materials”, such as Czech Malt and Zaaz Hops and Kieselguhr filtration materials as well.

In the years 1996-97, our company was contacted by many other czech producers in this branch and asked for help in gaining contacts to the eastern market. In a relatively short time we managed to gather few important czech companies and under a label “ Czech beer” present ourselves and take part in many traditional exhibitions which take place in Russia in cities, Sochi and Moscow and taking place also at International Brewers exhibitions in Nurnberg, Munich and in the others countries round the world. At these exhibitions and presentations, was awarded many medals and diplomas for the excellent quality of the exported "Czech malt".

The company has based its strategy on the ability of flawless communication and gaining contacts with russian partners, which has led, after years of intensive acquisition, to creating “Know How” towards eastern market. Our company was, for that reason, asked to cooperate with Czech malt company “Tchecomalt Group” in 1997. This cooperation has led to obtaining exclusivity on exporting Czech malt to whole eastern markets. At this time our company has gained great turn over and was, together with world competitors, an prominent supplier of Czech malt to Russia and Ukraine.

In the past 20 years, however, the situation on the eastern marked has changed. With incoming globalisation and following capitalization were privatized of 80% of Russian breweries by multinational companies such as INTERBREW, HEINEKEN, SABMiler and others. For that reason, has our company been pushed to focus on importing malt directly to the remaining independent breweries and also to the new formed segment of “Small and mini breweries and minibreweries ” or rather to their local suppliers and distributors. We have also focused on import to further places such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia and the others. With the change of character of our customers the structure of deliveries has changed as well. From delivery malt in Bulk to delivery of mostly bagged malt packed in 50kg bags, mostly malt of Pilsen style, special malts, such as Caramel, Munich and Roasted malt deliverd in special wagons or 4O” containers.