“First Protein,” the largest company in Aliaksandr Lutsenka’s Sodruzhestvo structure, is being liquidated

"First Protein," a trader in the Belarusian part of the Sodruzhestvo Group of Companies, is being liquidated, non-state Belarusian publications report. The reasons for closing the business, which grew by 150% last year and was profitable, have not been given.

The company was registered in Minsk at the end of 2023. It bought rapeseed and soybeans, and also sold the finished products of the Smarhon plant Belagroterminal in Belarus and for export. According to the same data, "First Protein" became the largest commercial unit in Sodruzhestvo's Belarusian structure. The structure includes Belagroterminal and 5 other legal entities.

The owners of the business are Aliaksandr Lutsenka and his wife Natallia. Lutsenka is listed first in the list of 100 successful businessmen of Belarus.

In 2025, "First Protein" had revenue of more than 1.1 billion rubles. That same year the company was among the twenty largest private businesses in the country.

In December 2023, Belarusian media named Lutsenka first in the ranking of successful businessmen in Belarus. In April 2024 it was reported that he had been buying up assets in Europe and Latin America and had taken the business to the international level. It was also noted at the time that in 2018 the Lutsenka family launched the country's largest oilseed extraction plant in Smarhon.