Price cut in half — and the buyer isn't from the wine industry. On August 5, the State Property Fund sold the only property complex of the state enterprise "Kotovskyi Winery" in Podilsk, Odesa region, for 12.41 million hryvnias. This was exactly the starting price of the re-auction — bidding without competition, as there was only one participant.
A week earlier, on July 28, the same object was offered for sale at 24.82 million hryvnias — and no buyer was found at all. Standard privatization logic through Prozorro: didn't sell — cut the price in half and try again. It worked.
Who bought the plant
The winner is LLC "DBK Agroshliakhbud" from the village of Zlaoustyve in Berezivsky district, a company with an 11-year history specializing in road construction. The ultimate beneficiaries are Arpine Kirakosyan and Robert Khachatryan, residents of Berezivka, with 50% stakes each.
The company's profile has nothing to do with winemaking. For the lot, they offered the starting price, to which an additional 2.28 million hryvnias in VAT will be added if the purchase decision is approved.
What exactly was sold
The property complex includes:
- 19 real estate objects — buildings and structures;
- 177 units of movable property;
- two vehicles;
- an unfinished construction object — design documentation for a residential building.
This is where the practical angle comes in: the buyer may be interested not in winemaking as such, but in real estate, land under the objects, and ready-made design documentation for residential construction. For a road construction company, this is a more logical asset than wine bottling lines.
Who works there now
The plant is not standing idle — it is leased by LLC "Winery KVZ," which belongs to Igor Shulechenko. Privatization changes the owner of the property, but doesn't necessarily automatically stop production: it's more profitable for the new owner to either continue leasing and receive payments, or repurpose the asset for something else.
This is already a trend
In spring 2026, a similar situation occurred with a branch of the Saratov Winery in the village of Bairamcha — the object was purchased from the state by the very tenant for 10 million hryvnias. So the state is consistently selling off wine production assets, and in both cases the buyers are not wine companies with industry interest, but players who already have access to the facility or see it as real estate rather than production.
The question for the coming months is simple: will "DBK Agroshliakhbud" continue leasing to the current winemaker, or will it use the 19 buildings and ready-made design documentation for something completely unrelated to wine.
