Domestic producers will provide McDonald's Kazakhstan with products

The company, represented by the General Director of Food Solutions KZ LLP (McDonald's Kazakhstan) Asset Mashanov appealed to entrepreneurs with a proposal to develop local suppliers in the current geopolitical situation. Domestic producers supported the international brand and are ready to cooperate on import substitution, World of NAN reports.

As told in press-service of NCE Atameken, the Committee of technical regulation and metrology of MTI RoK, under the order of vice-premier Serik Zhumangarin, carried out an online meeting on problematic issues of McDonald's with participation of representatives of the state bodies, business and national companies. The main issue of the meeting was to expedite the customs clearance of cargo, obtaining certificates of compliance, veterinary certificates.

"From next week and until the end of the year we will receive cargo from near and far abroad. The process of customs clearance, from experience, unfortunately, often takes a long time and lasts up to one working week. We ask for support in accelerating the process as much as possible: green corridors, freely accessible veterinary inspectors, expedited receipt of documents from customs and certification authorities", Asset Mashanov stated during online-meeting.

In turn, local producers noted that they are ready to supply their products to McDonald's Kazakhstan.

"I would offer to work together. We have our own poultry farms, which are checked by national laboratories and can deliver quality products. Logistics would be cheaper. Producers have all the certificates," Ruslan Sharipov, Chairman of the Union of Poultry Farmers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, suggested.

Vladimir Kozhevnikov, Executive Director of the Dairy Union of Kazakhstan, said entrepreneurs are ready for cooperation.

Yerbol Yeseneyev, director of the Department of Agricultural and Food Industry of NCE Atameken, supported the producers, stressing that McDonald's Kazakhstan can work on domestic products. He added that he is ready to chair the work group on import substitution.

"A representative of McDonald's in Kazakhstan was grateful for the assistance of government agencies and domestic producers to quickly restore the operating activities of restaurants in the current critical situation," - noted in Atameken.

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