Completed Projects and Old Clients

 

1. IFC & British Know How Fund – In cooperation with Nizhny Novgorod Administration and with financing provided by the British Know How Fund (BKHF), the Government of Canada, and USAID, IFC has developed a model program for privatizing Russia's state and collective farms. A priority objective in all phases of the work has been to produce a simple, generic privatization model that can be replicated throughout Russia. The pilot program involved the privatization of five state-owned farms in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

2. CEC/ISU/NNSAA Partnership - Iowa State University College of Business with Nizhny Novgorod State Agricultural Academy, established a continuing education center and produce a core of trained leaders who are able to influence economic restructuring and development in small business, financial services, and agribusiness.

3. VSU/DSU Partnership. RABIP - Russian/American Banking Internship Program to build a working relationship with several Russian leaders and secured agreements for future cooperation for the development of RABIP. The mission of RABIP project was to provide an international exchange opportunity for business students from both countries to live, learn and lead from participation in an academic and practical life-changing experience.

4. Golden Bison LLC to Russia - Golden Bison Company, LLC  a producer of premium quality food products, discovered the opportunity to grow bison heard in Russia whose core features were bison meat and its nutritional attributes. The long-term project included the propagation of bison and the grasslands upon which they roam, and ranching as a traditional way of life. The company was founded in 2003 and is owned by Joe Ricketts.

5. Krause Co  - Krause Corp. was a privately owned company focused on the manufacture of plows and other tillage systems, it created sales in central Russia.  It claimed to produce the largest range of farm tillage equipment and grain drills of any short line manufacturer in the world. Although most Krause Corp. products were sold within North America, the company exported to Russia and Ukraine as well.

6. Summers Manufacturing - Summers Manufacturing, an industry leader in the production of cultivators, sprayers, harrows and other agricultural equipment discovered new market in former USSR. The company’s export sales increased by 50 percent and expanded into a new export market of Russia, while also supplying equipment in Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia.

7. Osborne Industries Inc - Osborne Industries was looking for the new markets worldwide including Ukraine to design and sales of automated livestock management equipment for large group sow management systems, feed intake and performance testing equipment, and automated growth management systems for livestock.