The decision to ban Egyptian seed and vegetables export to Russia came after experts from the European Commission said the E.Coli bacteria that hit Europe in the earlier this year began in the north Africa country.
To date Egypt is the only remaining country whose vegetables are banned for export in Russia. This was reported by Gennady Onischenko – head of Russia’s Rospotrebnadzor (sanitary watchdog agency). There are no significant changes in Russian import to Egypt yet.
Source: www.tks.ru
Разгар сезона начнется в Калифорнии ближе к концу августа -началу сентября, когда начнется сбор сортов Гала и Гренни Смит, основных сортов, в которых заинтересован Российский рынок. В сентябре начинается сбор яблок Фуджи, отличающихся своей сочностью, а с октября начнут собирать яблоки сорта Пинк и остальные более поздние сорта.
According to Fruit-Inform analysts, Russia’s share in the global fruit imports has reached almost 8% in terms of value and even more in terms of volume in the recent years due to rapidly increasing consumption. As Russian economy is recovering there is a trend to consume higher quality products. As of today the size of the Russian fresh, frozen and dried fruit imports is estimated at nearly US $6bn per annum.
The leading import items are citrus fruits, apples and bananas, which account altogether for 55% of all imports. Table grapes are becoming more popular during winter and spring, which provides good opportunities for suppliers from Southern Hemisphere (Chile and South Africa being key suppliers). Similar trend was noted for stone fruits, specifically for sweet cherries. Fresh stone fruits and grapes account for nearly 22% of all fruit imports already.
Source: www.freshplaza.com
OJSC Magnit, one of Russia’s largest hypermarket chains, has opened a new distribution center in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod region.
Total space of the warehouse is 30,523sqm. Launch of the new distribution center is expected to improve the quality of service in the Central region.
Magnit retail chain operates 13 distribution centers with their total capacity of 299,443sqm. As of June 30, 2011, the chain consisted of 4,366 convenience stores, 66 hypermarkets and 28 cosmetics stores (drogerie) in 1,286 locations in the Russian Federation.
Development of the hypermarket format
In June 2011 Russia’s Top-90 FMCG retailers added 4 objects with total area increase by 9.200 sq m. In HY1 2011 the number of sales objects grew by 15, the total area – by 32.800 sq m. In June 2011 2 new Magnit hypermarkets were opened in Nizhniy Novogorod and Chelyabinsk Regions, hypermarket “Alleya” in Krasnoyarsk Region and Prisma in St. Petersburg. As of July 1st 2011 the total number of Top-90 retailers’ hypermarkets is 484 with total area 2,958,000.2 sq m.
Development of the supermarket format
In HY1 2011 the number of Top-90 FMCG retail supermarkets rose by 73, their total area grew by 55,300 sq m. As of July 1st 2011 there are 1,647 Top-90 FMCG retail supermarkets in Russia with the total sales area more than 1,467,000.4 sq m.
Development of the discounter format
In HY1 2011 Russia’s Top-90 FMCG retailers added 813 objects. Discounters’ sales area grew in HY1 2011 by 284,000.7 sq m. As of July 1st 2011 the total number of discounters in Russia is 9,384 with total sales area exceeding 3,300,000.9 sq m.
Development of the convenience store format
In HY1 2011 the number of convenience stores of Russia’s Top-90 FMCG retailers grew by 88 objects. Their sales area grew by 16,300 sq m. As of June 1st the total number of convenience stores in Russia is about 1,776 with total area exceeding 563,200 sq m.
Source: www.retail.ru
International expansion of the world’s leading retail and food retail brands has been quite active in the HY1 2011. During the last 5 years the Russian market remains one of the most attractive for expansion for the largest American and European brands.
Since the beginning of 2011 3 large public catering chains entered the Russian market: the famous German fish fast-food chain Nordsee, one of America’s fast-food leaders Wendy’s and the famous Pinkberry cafes with their delicious frozen yoghurt and fruit smoothies.
Source: www.retail.ru
Russia will lift ban on raw vegetables from the European Union countries starting on Tuesday, August 9th, reported Russian news agencies on Monday.
Russia banned imports of raw vegetables from the European Union on June 2 due to a deadly E.coli outbreak. Moscow later agreed to drop the ban provided it received safety guarantees and has since allowed imports from some EU countries.
The EU, which exported about 600 million euros ($850 million) worth of vegetables to Russia last year, had said the blanket ban was not scientifically justified.
Source: www.freshplaza.com
The new outlets have a smaller sales area, ranging from 70 to 200 square metres and the product range includes ready meals, convenience food and fresh bakery products. X5 plans to introduce a coffee bar and Wi-Fi in the future. The retailer currently operates four company-owned stores in Moscow but plans to expand the network through franchising.
Source: en.retail.ru
Russia’s sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is ready to totally lift a ban on import of vegetables from Europe if there are no cases of the E’Coli infections registered, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Sunday.
Russia introduced the vegetable embargo on June 2 after the E.Coli bacteria, traced to vegetables, killed at least 40 people in Europe.
“It reassures us that the number of people, infected by the E.Coli, has fallen significantly,” Onishchenko said. “If it follows this way, we will consider the issue of the total lifting of the import ban, but with certain restrictions.”
Onishchenko said that among the countries, whose vegetables are .
As of now Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece and the Czech Republic, Poland and France have permission to export vegetables to Russia.
Source: en.rian.ru
In the HY1 2011 the cargo turnover in the region under the Baltic Customs Service control has grown and reached 12,100,000 tones. The statistic value of the registered goods amounted to $21 bln, which is 33% more than in the HY1 2010. Export grew 3% and reached almost $ 4 bln. Import grew 43% and reached $ 17 bln.
The main importing countries are China (16%), the Netherlands (8%), Ecuador (8%), Germany (7%). The leading position in the import structure is occupied by fruit, meat and meat products, polymeric materials.
Source: www.tks.ru