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Further decrease in Russia’s imports of Chinese apples

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According to the official statistics, the Russian Federation keeps on rapidly reducing imports of apples from China.
In the first 11 months of the current season, Russia imported record low 112,000 tonnes of Chinese apples, a decrease of 7% from the import volumes over the same period of the previous season (121,000 tonnes).
Over the past five seasons, Russia’s imports of apples from China became 42% lower. However, China still remains the third largest exporter of apples to the Russian Federation.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

Peak of South African apple exports to Russia

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According to Fruit-Inform, the peak of South African apple exports to Russia was registered in May.
The South African apple export season traditionally starts in March with largest exports to Russia being registered in May-July.
South Africa has been steadily increasing apple exports to the Russian Federation in the current season. In May 2013, Russia purchased 2,200 tonnes of South African apples, 60% more compared with the same month of the previous year. Russia’s cumulative imports of apples from South Africa in the period from March to May amounted to 2,700 tonnes, an increase of 50% year-on-year.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

One more Zelenij Perekrestok supermarket

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June 28, 2013, X5 Retail Group launched a 15th supermarket “Zelenij Perekrestok” (290 square meters) in the shopping center in the multifunctional complex “Moscow”. As it was stated – range of products will be more than 3,500 items in this supermarket.

In the Moscow region there are already 13 “Zelenij Perekrestok” supermarkets, one in Rostov-on-Don and one in St. Petersburg.

Source: www.retailer.ru

Auchan’s Atak opens 100th store

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Auchan’s Russian banner Atak opened its 100th store in Russia on 19 June. The store, which was opened by Atak Russia chairman Philippe Delalande, is located in the neighborhood of Nizjni Novgorod and, according to the retailer, “confirms the intention of Groupe Auchan to make Russia a priority objective.”

“In fact, one third of the investments of the supermarket division in 2012 were devoted to the development of Atak Russia, with 33 openings,” Auchan said.

Many of these stores are located in the Moscow and Yaroslavl areas, but the expansion drive also involves more outlying regions, such as the Nizjni Novgorod store, which is located 450km from the capital. The new store is 702 square metres and employs 14 members of staff.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

Moscow franchisee retail network “Monetka” is for sale

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The founders of retail network “Monetka” Sergey Lomakin and Artyom Khachatryan put it up for sale. There are nearly 100 stores in Moscow, the network is estimated at up to $200 million (according to some sources, up to $200 million). “Monetka” (LLC “Investproekt”) is a franchisee of the Ural network, which now numbers more than 400 stores.

The revenue of LLC “Investproekt” amounted to 7.6 billion rubles. a debt is 4 billion rubles in 2012. The estimated revenue in 2013 is to reach 8 billion rubles.

According to the market analytics, buyers may be the Russian major retail network Magnit that is going to conquer Moscow retail market and the biggest meat holding Miratorg that is planning to develop its retail network.

Source: www.retailer.ru

Verny entering Yekaterinburg

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Verny, the federal-level network of grocery stores is entering Yekaterinburg, where 10 discount stores will open under this brand by the end of 2013. The chain was founded by the ex co-owner of X5 Retail Group, Andrey Rogachev, in July 2012. As PMR reported in February, in Q4 2012 Verny launched 33 stores in Moscow, Moscow Province, St. Petersburg and Leningrad Province. The company has announced around 130 new openings throughout the country.

Source: www.russiaretail.com

First Moscow Auchan opens in former Real hypermarket

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The French grocery retailer Auchan has opened its first hypermarket in Moscow in premises previously occupied by a Real store. The Russian Real stores, previously owned by the German Metro Group, were sold along with the Real establishments in Poland, Romania and Ukraine. The Russian transaction was concluded in May this year.
The new Auchan outlet takes up 7,400 m2 in Signalny Lane and offers 25,000 SKUs. This is the 60th of the chain’s hypermarkets in Russia. The remainder of the 16 Real hypermarkets in Russia, bought by Auchan, are to be rebranded by the end of this year.

Source: www.russiaretail.com

Russia imported 15% less fresh fruit and vegetables in 2012

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Russia is still an interesting market despite the 15% drop in imports during 2012. The total imported volume reached almost 8.9 million tonnes, according to data published by Freshtel, provided by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service.

The most important categories in 2012 were citrus, with 1.58 million tonnes (4.9% less than in 2011), apples, with 1.27 million tonnes, which represents 7.6% of the total, and bananas, with 1.26 million tonnes.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

Rewe group expanding in Russia

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With approval from the Russian competition authority, the REWE Group is acquiring twelve City stores of the Russian subsidiary OOO ENKA TC of the ENKA Group based in Istanbul. In so doing, the REWE Group is driving forward its expansion strategy in foreign markets. “The acquisition in Russia underscores the strategic significance of foreign business for the REWE Group. In the meantime we are generating around one third of our turnover outside Germany’s borders. Eastern Europe is developing into a big attraction when it comes to foreign growth,” Alain Caparros, CEO of the REWE Group, said.

The acquired locations in the greater metropolitan area of Moscow will be converted to the successful BILLA supermarket format in the coming months and be integrated into the existing distribution network. The company also plans to open around ten new BILLA stores by the end of the year, while continued investment will be made in the quality and modernization offensive.

“The Russian market is one of the growth markets for us, where we see great potential. Particularly as the greater metropolitan area of Moscow has high purchasing power,” explained Frank Hensel, CEO of REWE International AG. “We intend to further expand our development options in particular in this region in the future – full exploitation of the market is far from complete,” according to Hensel.

In the past financial year 2011 BILLA Russia achieved a clear increase in growth of 14.6 per cent to EUR 436.4 million (+16.3 per cent adjusted for the exchange rate) and is thus once again the most successful foreign market of REWE International AG, which controls the full-range business in Russia from Wiener Neudorf, Austria. The positive development is also reflected in the other corporate figures. For instance, the number of employees compared to the previous year 2010 rose from 2,821 to 3,107. In addition, the network of stores in Russia was supplemented by a total of four locations; at the end of 2011 the network comprised 72 stores.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

Russians buy-up Bulgarian cherries

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Russians for the second year are about to leave Bulgarians without cherries. An investor from Russia has requested 75 tons per week from the fruit in late Kyustendil. The application was received by the municipality mayor Peter Paounov. It will be passed on to farmers who have yet to agree on the purchase price.

Last year, Russians burdened their trucks with Bulgarian cherries for their market for a colossal wholesale price of BGN 2.50 per kilogram. The Bulgarian resellers offered only BGN 1.20 and were left empty-handed. At the moment, they are twisting the hands of local farmers with BGN 0.60 per kilogram of the early fruit which is then sold on the market for BGN 1.60 to BGN 2. There is an interest in the cherries from Kyustendil from Romania, Moldova, Germany and England as well, the municipality praises.

Another reason due to which the Kyustendil cherries may not make it to the Bulgarian markets is the heavy rain that hit the plantation days ago. Hopefully the hail will not be repeated, otherwise, farmers may be left without a harvest.

Because of the good market for the Bulgarian cherries, hundreds of acres of new plantations are created in villages such as Vinogradets and Karabunar. Many of the new cherry farmers are young people and this year they have enjoyed a good harvest and market conditions, they say.

Source: www.freshplaza.com