ASTARTA Holding is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding company in Ukraine, a public European company. It produces food products with a focus on global markets. The company was founded in March 1993 by Viktor Ivanchyk, who has been CEO since then. The company's main activities are crop production, sugar production, dairy and meat farming, soybean processing, grain logistics, and bioenergy. Since 2006, the company's shares have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Astarta's majority shareholders are Viktor Ivanchyk and Fairfax Financial Holdings LTD. Other shareholders include institutional European and American investors. In 2008, the company was one of the first in Ukraine to join the UN Global Compact network. Wikipedia