Nemiroff says products still reaching UK chains such as Sainsbury’s and Tesco despite production difficulties
Businesses in Ukraine are “not sitting and waiting for the war to end” and are working to expand despite bombs hitting shipments out of the country, according to a leading vodka exporter to the UK.
Yuriy Sorochynskyi, the chief executive of Ukraine’s largest spirits export brand, Nemiroff vodka, has said its products have continued to flow to big chains including Tesco and Sainsbury’s as it copes with the harsh realities of almost four years of war.
Late last year one of the brand’s shipping containers, holding 17,000 bottles, was hit by bombing at the Ukrainian port of Odesa. A supplier’s shipment was also recently hit.
“We had one or two containers destroyed in port by missile attacks,” he said. “This is now business as usual.”
