Azbuka Vkusa announces the opening of its first supermarket outside the capital region. The company opens a branch in St. Petersburg and plans to launch there more than 10 supermarkets within 3 years.
The opening of the first supermarket in St. Petersburg is scheduled for autumn 2012. By the end of the business year 2012 there will be already four supermarkets in St. Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg Azbuka Vkusa will keep its traditional structure: one of network’s features is a unique range of goods – more than 18 thousand high quality items including both consumer goods and a large variety of fresh products, delicatessen and farm products.
Some information about the company: Azbuka Vkusa is the first Russian supermarket network specializing in the trade of high quality superior food, consumer goods and alcohol. The company was founded in 1997; and now there are 49 supermarkets in Moscow and the Moscow region. They have partners in more than 50 countries worldwide; more than 6,000 people work for the company. Azbuka Vkusa profit was about 21.6 billion rubles in the business year 2011 (it ended March 31, 2012).
Azbuka Vkusa became the first Russian company in the retail food trade that introduced and certified the system of quality management based on ISO 9000 standards. In 2012 the company successfully passed the recertification audit for the second time and confirmed compliance with the system to the international standard ISO 9001:2008.
Source: www.av.ru