The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has approved an application from Agrotorg, a subsidiary of X5 Retail Group, to purchase structures in Siberian food store chain Holiday Classic, Interfax reported Friday. Holiday is the largest retail chain in the Siberian region. It manages the Kora, Holiday Classic, Holiday Discounter, Siberiada and Palata stores in the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Altai and Kemerovo regions...

Global sportswear giant Nike plans to sign a franchising agreement with re:Store Retail Group — which operates a chain of Apple branded stores in Russia and Europe — to open 15 local outlets in the next three years. Global sportswear giant Nike plans to sign a franchising agreement with re:Store Retail Group — which operates a chain...

... Judging countries by their development promise, many Western retailers rank Russia among the top three locations for strategic development. International retailers continue announcing their plans to enter the Russian retail market. Many existing retail chains, both domestic and foreign, plan to expand across Russia. Moscow and St. Petersburg markets continue to be priorities, while regional cities are now targeted for further expansion. The majority of Western market companies are developing their businesses...

An outsourced co-packing service guarantees successful goods promotion on the market. In past decades co-packing services dedicated to finalizing goods before their offering for sale became an integral part of the supply chain and successful business. Thomas Latil Co-Packing Process Engineer FM Logistic Russia An outsourced co-packing service guarantees successful goods promotion on the market. In past decades co-packing services dedicated to finalizing goods before...

... any shop smaller than 50 square meters. Small-business people say both bills are a thinly veiled attack on the sector. "Of course it's necessary to fight alcoholism and smoking. But that's not deterring smoking; it is handing supermarkets and chain stores a monopoly," said Natalya Kosheleva, a lawyer for a company that runs a chain of kiosks in Novosibirsk and one of the founders of the nascent trade group. "We're entrepreneurs, and it is true that we don't usually come out onto...

... <tr><td valign="top"><b>Employment history:</b></td><td><p><b>Customer Service and Logistics Manager </b><br>BIOCODEX A.S., Moscow. Rep. Office OOO “BIOCODEX”<br>- Supply chain management, ensuring optimal goods flow to Russia and Belorussia and logistical cost-efficiency at every stage - Managing monthly rolling production forecast updates in accordance with the sales budget, registration plan, packaging availability...

Grocery chain Dixy said Tuesday that its 2011 net profit rose 342 percent to $37 million and revenue increased 64.6 percent to $3.5 billion. (Reuters) JKX Oil & Gas said it started commercial gas delivery from the Koshekhablskoye field in southern Russia and...

... challenges do you face working in Krasnoyarsk? A: The main challenge is common for the whole of Siberia — long distances and a severe climate. Metro Cash & Carry was a pioneer in this region and supported the establishment of an efficient supply chain infrastructure. We had to learn many things that only Siberia could teach us. The trucks, for example, have to be equipped with the latest air-conditioning systems to cool the food in summer and "heat" it during the glacial winter months...

... Pushkin Square was used as the starting point for a 10,000-strong protest march Sunday. Its fountains were also made famous in March when opposition leaders Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov and their supporters forced riot police to break up human chains they had formed around the boarded-up waterworks during a demonstration after the presidential election win of then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The reconstruction and renovation project involves the development of a plan for the squares, decorative...

... services to corporate clients. Auchan Group's banking unit and Dutch Credit Europe Group have embarked on establishing a joint bank in Russia to expand their presence and provide a broader range of services to corporate clients, which include retail chains Auchan and Leroy Merlin, the companies said in a statement Monday. The partners have filed a petition with regulators to register the joint venture, which is scheduled to start work next year, said the statement published on the website of Credit...

..., which comprise a third of his fortune, by the end of May. The aspiring politician sold his Bank Rossiisky Kredit to a group of private investors for $352 million two weeks ago and is in the process of completing a $60 million sale of the pharmacy chain Doctor Stoletov. The agriculture company Stoilenskaya Niva is the last asset in Russia that Ivanishvili plans to sell. 437073 179742

... dynamics we expect will motivate the kickoff of a new development cycle for construction of modern quality retail schemes in cities with a population of 300,000 to 700,000. In three to five years, this trend will ensure both the expansion of retail chains and considerable growth of the volume of retail real estate investment in Russia. In 2011, regional investment deals accounted for only 4 percent of the real estate investment market by volume. Take into consideration that more than 80 percent...

... factories are not like this. There you can see old lines, and this is what worries us in terms of modernization." The ice cream factories that appeared over the past 10 to 15 years are well equipped and making gains on the market. The franchised chain Baskin Robbins expanded its network in Russia by 40 percent in the past two to three years and acts as the official ice cream supplier to the Kremlin, said Agnessa Osipova, the Russian branch's general director. Currently, 10 of the modernized...

...," he wrote. Again no surprises, Leps performed at the Putin snow-blown rally at Luzhniki and Mikhailov was one of Putin's "representatives." Even at the inauguration, Mikhailov wore his shirt unbuttoned to reveal his hairy chest and gold chain with a cross. Although the dress code was a dark suit. Analysts might suggest Putin's musical tastes are changing, or that he has cannily noted that Mikhailov is now Russia's most popular singer. Timati was one of the celebrities who did a promotional...

... six-year term, but, if he lasts that long, he'll have to seek another in 2018. He will be able to leave the Kremlin only feet first or by going straight to jail. As he himself once declared in one of the most telling Freudian slips in history, he's been chained to power "like a galley slave." Even though he has appointed Medvedev as his prime minister, Putin can't be too happy with the job Medvedev has done. As he starts his third term, Putin finds himself in a country far different from what...

... administration to end-user desktop system and specialized marketing IT systems support. Sometimes, even core business functions are outsourced to a systems integrator. Indeed, this happened earlier this year when a large retailer with an extensive regional chain contacted us to create an electronic archive of accounting records. After cost estimation of infrastructure deployment, including storage systems, scanning and character recognition systems and infrastructure solutions, the customer decided to outsource...

... defense lawyer for imprisoned U.S. businessman Alan Gross admitted to us that this textual constitutional protection has not been applied to protect data contained on a computer, or a flash drive confiscated without due process and without a documented chain of custody, because this is a "political case." Fidel Castro and his brother are the permanent overlords of Cuba, with 97 percent of everyone else "voting" in meaningless elections just to make them feel involved. One of the...

... carrying out of negotiations with participation of foreign colleagues; work with the wide assortment of pipes, rolled metal, equipment and materials for oil and gas companies, industrial enterprises and power-generating sector; development of contract chains and logistic schemes for import and export; preparation, translation and coordination of contract and bid documentation; business trips; business correspondence in English; translation of technical and commercial specifications, technical conditions...

...." "The room stock in luxury hotels in Moscow is starting to reach the level that is needed," said Alexis Delaroff, chief operating officer of Accor Russia, which has one of the most ambitious development programs of the international hotel chains operating in Russia. Accor, which runs Novotel, Ibis and Mercure hotels in Moscow, has so far focused on the mid-market segment in the capital. It does plan to open a Sofitel luxury hotel in Moscow in the future, Delaroff said. "The hotels...

... ignore me. Finally I was noticed!" Tikhonov told The Moscow Times outside the court, adding that he was "a disciplined person." He said he had considered himself apolitical until the Duma elections in December. Tikhonov had stood in a chain of protesters swept by the riot police Sunday. Finding himself in the police vehicle, he had been surprised to learn that there were no other managers among the 20 other detainees. Instead he was in the company of a taxi driver, a yard keeper, a...