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RM10-20M (estimated)
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A Cut Above
A 428-square-foot salon became Malaysia's premier hairstyling academy after an 8-location express chain taught its founder when to cut losses.
Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾
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Ghee Hiang
168 years old, seven years in court. Four families at war nearly destroyed Malaysia's oldest confectionery. Sesame oil—not pastries—now generates 70% of revenue.
George Town, Penang 🇲🇾
~USD 1-10M
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Pomhyanggi
Five crises in 25 years: famine, demolition, sanctions, pandemic, flooding. Still won a WIPO Gold Medal and produces 12 million units annually.
Sinuiju 🇰🇵
<$10M
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Unhasu
UN sanctions banned chemical imports. Unhasu pivoted to indigenous ingredients in weeks—6x production growth, 13x export surge by 2023.
Pyongyang 🇰🇵
$5-10M
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Dragonfly Therapeutic Retreat
Launched during SARS into Shanghai's missing middle. Academy-trained consistency made quality exportable—China's first service brand abroad.
Shanghai 🇨🇳
~USD 200M
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Sela
Hebrew name. Israeli design. Chinese production. Russian stores. Boris Ostrobrod disguised "Russian" as "foreign" when domestic meant cheap.
Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
$1.8M
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ESSE
Igor Samsonov died at 46. Eleven months later, Forbes crowned ESSE Winery of the Year. His quality systems outlived him—Crimea's boldest bet.
Dolinnoe, Crimea 🇷🇺
$60-80M
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Abrau-Durso
When 2022 sanctions shut Western markets, Abrau-Durso tripled China sales in 90 days—152 years of heritage opening doors startups can't.
Novorossiysk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Profiled Brands
Uzunov
Four generations: Soviet workers → Fanagoria Chief Winemaker (35 years) → Russia's first family farm license → both sons involved.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Myskhako
One year before Abrau-Durso existed, Fyodor Geyduk founded Myskhako in 1869. After 156 years of political transitions, 2021 capital revived it.
Novorossiysk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Novyi Svet
Russia's champagne birthplace. Prince Golitsyn carved cellars into coastal cliffs in 1878—tunnels that supplied tsars and outlasted regimes.
Sudak, Crimea 🇷🇺
Millstream
Founded 1936 under Stalin, Millstream survived Nazi occupation, Soviet recapture, and regime collapse. Now 5.5M bottles from pre-WWII roots.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Tsimlyansk Wines
Red sparkling wine sounds like a gimmick—unless Cossacks perfected it since the 18th century. Vines buried annually to survive -25°C.
Tsimlyansk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Derbent Cognac Factory
Soviet planners split Derbent's wine operations in 1960. The cognac side became a ₽2.7B spirits powerhouse producing 10M+ liters annually.
Derbent, Dagestan 🇷🇺
Kuban-Vino
Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point. Russia's largest producer runs a dual-brand playbook.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Zolotaya Balka
The harbor where the Light Brigade charged in 1854 now produces 13 million bottles of sparkling wine annually from 135 years of heritage.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Inkerman
55,000 square meters of chambers carved into Inkerman Mountain—ancient quarries turned Soviet wine cellars with zero refrigeration required.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Massandra
Prince Lev Golitsyn founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars. Seven tunnels now preserve over a million bottles dating to the 18th century.
Yalta, Crimea 🇷🇺
$80-100M
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Fanagoria Estate Winery
Russia's largest winery ships 800,000 bottles to China yearly—scoring up to 97 Parker points from its own cooperage's Russian Oak.
Sennoy, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Listed Brands
Vinabani
Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.
Malaya Martynovka, Rostov 🇷🇺
Usadba Sarkel
Reviving 1,400-year-old Khazar winemaking site and Pushkin-era 'Kazachka' sparkling tradition with Forbes Top 100 recognition.
Sarkel, Rostov 🇷🇺
Levokumskoye
237-year-old Stavropol flagship (1788) undergoing complete 2022 reconstruction and 700ha→1,200ha expansion.
Novokumsky, Stavropol 🇷🇺
Château Le Grand Vostock
Franco-Russian winery on the 45th parallel, founded in 2003 by French winemaker Frank Duseigneur, now restructured under new ownership with Michel Rolland consulting.
Sadovoye, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Derbent Wine Factory
Every fifth bottle of Russian sparkling wine comes from Derbent. 2,300 hectares in Dagestan's ancient terroir.
Derbent, Dagestan 🇷🇺
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