Three companies in the agricultural sector were included in the ranking of the 100 largest companies in Russia by net profit - 2023

FORBES magazine has compiled a ranking of the hundred largest Russian companies by net profit. The publication explains that the rating participants were ranked by net profit for 2022; In this case, data from Rosstat, the Federal Tax Service and information from company reports were used.

Only three companies from the agricultural sector are represented in the ranking. In forty-ninth place is the United SUGAR Company, part of Prodimex. The company's profit increased from 8.1 billion rubles in 2021 to 30.3 billion rubles in 2022.

In eighty-sixth place is Agra Group with net profit in 2022 of 17.7 billion rubles compared to 0.9 billion rubles in 2021.

Miratorg took ninety-first place, despite the fact that the holding’s net profit decreased sharply. This may be due to a number of investment projects implemented by the company in 2022. In 2021, Miratorg’s profit amounted to 40.2 billion rubles, and in 2022 – 16.7 billion rubles.

Federal grocery chains were also included in the ranking of the most profitable companies. The Mercury Retail Holding company, which manages the Krasnoe&Beloe and Bristol chains, overtook everyone. it took twenty-eighth place with net profit of 48.2 billion rubles in 2022 versus 37 billion rubles in 2021. Previously, Forbes explained that the success of Mercury Retail Holding is associated with the high margins of the ALCOHOL market business.

Next comes X5, which took thirty-third place. The group's net profit in 2021 amounted to 42.7 billion rubles, and in 2022 increased to 45.2 billion rubles.

In fifty-second place is the Magnit company, which earned 27.9 billion rubles last year. In 2021, its profit was higher - 48.1 billion rubles.

Four fertilizer producers also moved up in the rankings. Tenth place was taken by Phosagro with a net profit of 184.7 billion rubles in 2022, in sixteenth place by Eurochem with a net profit of 107 billion rubles in 2022. Twentieth place was taken by Acron with a profit of 71.8 billion rubles in 2022, by sixty fifth place goes to Azot Group of Companies, whose net profit increased from 2.6 billion rubles. in 2021 to 24.5 billion rubles in 2022