X5 Retail Group N.V., a Russia-based retailer, has appointed Igor Sotnikov as the company’s new supermarket format director.
Having joined the Company in 2001, Mr Sotnikov spent almost 10 years mostly in supermarket operations. He succeeds Ekaterina Stolypina, who is leaving X5 for personal reasons.
Andrei Gusev, CEO of X5 Retail Group, commented: “We are grateful to Ekaterina for her valuable contribution in managing supermarkets and hypermarkets. Our strategy is to manage these two formats separately. As an experienced retail executive Igor is ideally placed to further develop our winning supermarket format. X5 is in the process of recruiting senior talent to take over the management of hypermarkets and expects to complete this process in the nearest future.”
Mr Sotnikov has extensive managerial experience with X5. Igor had been running Perekrestok operations since 2005. From 2007 he headed logistics of X5. Igor served as CEO of X5 Ukraine for several years.
Source: www.freshplaza.com