About us
About the Association
The Lithuanian Association of Grain Processors’ and Traders’ was established in 1992 on the initiative of twenty grain processing companies operating at that time. Currently, the association is united by 34 companies. The companies uniting the association have about 4,000 employees.
The grain sector is a strategic sector and one of the most important in the food chain, ensuring the supply of food to the country’s population. The members of the association cover about 95 percent grain purchasing, processing and trade companies operating in Lithuania. Some of them are international companies or develop activities in other countries. The association occupies a leading position in terms of annual sales revenue of members, which for a number of years exceeds 4 billion EUR. The added value per employee is on average twice as high as the national average and amounts to 75 thousand EUR.
Activities of the Association companies : purchase, preparation, primary and further processing of grain, trade in grain and grain raw materials. The companies produce compound feed, premixes, flour, groats, dry gluten, starch, malt, organic grain products, biofuels and various other grain products. The companies export and import grain products and feed raw materials. The activities of the sector are closely linked to the whole food supply chain:“from the field to the table”,starting with seed preparing companies, grain growing farms, plant protection and fertilizer industries, agricultural machinery, services supervising crops, quality research laboratories, production and trade of cereal products and feed, the whole logistics chain: rail, road, port.
The Association is a member of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists and the Federation of European Feed Manufacturers (FEFAC) and represents the interests of the members of the Association in these organizations.
Objectives and functions
- To coordinate the activities of the members of the Association, to represent the interests of the members and to defend them in state and other institutions of the Republic of Lithuania, public organizations.
- To organise seminars, to prepare recommendations, other publications on the activities of the Association and its members.
Management structure
Presidium:
Presidium establishes the priority directions of the Association’s activities, the strategy for the implementation of these directions and the activities of the Association.
Resolves all issues arising in the activities of the Association, assigned to the competence of the Presidium of the Association.
- Karolis Šimas - President of the Association, UAB “Agrokoncerno grūdai”, CEO
- Darius Zubas - Vice-president of the Association, AB “Linas Agro Group”, CEO
- Renatas Šaikus - Vice-president of the Association, AB “Roquette Amilina”, Supply Chain Manager
- Tautvydas Barštys - AB “Kauno grūdai”, CEO
- Ovidijus Bartkus - AB “Kretingos grūdai”, CEO
- Arvydas Noreika - AB “Baltic Mill”, Head of Supply Chain
- Robertas Lapinskas - UAB “Agrorodeo”, General Director
- Dalia Ruščiauskienė - Director of the Association
How to become a member?
Asociacijos nariais gali būti Lietuvos Respublikos ir kitų šalių juridiniai asmenys, individualios įmonės, įmonių ir organizacijų padaliniai, turintys juridinio asmens teises, pripažįstantys Asociacijos įstatus ir dalyvaujantys Asociacijos veikloje.
- Norint tapti asociacijos nariu reikia parašyti laisvos formos prašymą Asociacijai.
- Artimiausiame asociacijos narių atstovų konferencijos posėdyje bus svarstomas Jūsų narystės klausimas.
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- Dėl papildomos informacijos kreipkitės el.p.: info@allgrain.lt