Beekeeping is a fun and challenging hobby which brings profits. This appears to be a joke. Who would ever think that beekeeping in today’s economy could be anything but a losing financial proposition? Nonetheless, the prospect of profitable beekeeping is real, and beekeeping business itself can contribute to the welfare of all people engaged in the industry.

Taking a trip down memory lane, beekeeping has been recently falling on hard times. Without the profit motive, the only thing that keeps beekeepers going is hard work and selfless dedication. Beekeepers working as individuals, without due support from the government or business, are not in a position to significantly affect either supply or demand or influence prices for hive products in a global market place. However, cooperatively, something might be done to put beekeeping business to its profitable feet, for instance, by marketing bee products to the consumer in interesting and innovative ways. 

The Tentorium Apicompany was started as a small agricultural enterprise. To provide for the family, the Company’s founder Rail Khismatullin and his wife had acquired a single bee colony to pollinate cucumbers. Gradually, bee colonies of the Khismatulins grew in number. What started as a necessity soon has evolved into a profitable business, evolving into a present holding comprising a number of research and production facilities.

As the First Beekeeping Company, Tentorium promotes commercial beekeeping in the region and in Russia, contributes to reviving old national beekeeping traditions and encourages professional and hobbyist beekeepers to develop their business.

Perm region, the beehive of Tentorium activity, ranking second in the development of beekeeping, is only outpaced by Krasnodarsk region in the number of bee colonies. Tentorium is the major enterprise in the country processing all known hive products, a potential buyer of beekeeping products in large amounts. Tentorium works in close co-operation with local individual beekeepers and apiaries, the Nectar LLC, the Beekeeping Academy and the Research and Scientific Institute of Beekeeping.  

Tentorium encourages training and retraining of specialists in beekeeping, introduces and promotes new beekeeping and breeding technologies in northern climatic conditions, ways to process beehive products, to use bees for pollination. The Company assists beekeeping research activities at institutes of higher education in Perm, at experimental and teaching apiaries.

Tentorium purchases hive products from beekeepers and offers an innovative way of distributing wellness products based on them – the Tentorium business.

The Tentorium business promotes bee products, encourages a healthy lifestyle and offer financial independence for every beekeeper seeking to become a successful businessman – a Tentorium distributor!