Metro AG is a German multinational company based in Düsseldorf which operates business membership-only cash and carry stores primarily under the Metro brand. Until 2020, it was also active in the general retail business through the Real division, which was sold to an investor consortium.
BILLA is an Austrian supermarket chain that operates in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The company was founded by Karl Wlaschek in 1953. He sold his controlling interest to Germany's REWE Group in 1996.
PJSC Sberbank is a Russian majority state-owned banking and financial services company headquartered in Moscow. It was called Sberbank of Russia until 2015. Sberbank has operations in several European nations, primarily post-Soviet countries.
Auchan is a French multinational retail group headquartered in Croix, France. It was founded in 1961 by Gérard Mulliez and is owned by the Mulliez family, who has 95% stake in the company. With 354,851 employees, of which 261,000 have 5% stake in the company, it is the 35th largest employer in the world.
Deutsche Woolworth GmbH & Company OHG is a chain of department stores in Germany and was a former subsidiary of the American F. W. Woolworth Company. As of 2022 the chain has more than 570 stores in Germany and 3 in Poland they are aiming to have over 1,000 in the medium term and over 5,000 across Europe in the long term.
Praktiker AG was a German hardware store chain which operated in Europe. It was based in Hamburg and opened its first store in 1978 in Luxembourg under the name bâtiself. Initially owned by ASKO, the chain became a division of Metro AG after the merger of ASKO with Metro Cash & Carry in 1995. It was spun off under the name Praktiker Holding in November 2005 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Since 2006 until 2011 was listed on MDAX and since 2011 until 2013 on SDAX.
The Baumax AG was an Austrian chain of home improvement stores. It was founded in 1976 by Karlheinz Essl Sr. in the city of Klosterneuburg and operated more than 150 stores in Austria and several countries of Eastern Europe. As of 2010, the company employed over 9,000 people and generated an annual revenue of 1.13 billion euros. When the business came into financial trouble during the financial crisis of 2008–2009, it was finally broken up by creditors in 2015/16.
Bauhaus AG is a German pan-European retail chain offering products for home improvement, gardening, and workshop. The name contains the German words bauen and Haus (house), but also alludes to the modernist Bauhaus school and the company's founder and owner, the German billionaire Heinz-Georg Baus.
Magnit is one of Russia's largest food retailers. It was founded in 1994 in Krasnodar by Sergey Galitsky. As of March 2016, the company had 12,434 stores in 2,385 locations. They include 9,715 convenience stores, 225 hypermarkets, 2,337 Magnit Cosmetics stores and 157 Magnit family stores. The company employs more than 140,000 people and has been opening several dozen stores each month.
Sergey Nikolayevich Galitsky is a Russian billionaire businessman, the founder and co-owner of Magnit, Russia's largest retailer, and president of FC Krasnodar. In 2021 Forbes Russia estimated his fortune at $3,500 million.
Lev Khasis is a manager, investor and entrepreneur. He was born 5 June 1966 in Kuybyshev, now Samara, RSFSR, USSR) He was the first CEO of the X5 Retail Group (2006–2011), Senior Vice-President and then CEO and President of New Formats at Walmart Stores Inc (2011-2013), Vice-Chairman of Jet.com until the company was acquired by Walmart at the end of 2016, Board member of Kiavi.com, Momentus.space, Evotor,DocDoc and many other companies in 2014-2021.
Oleg Yuryevich Tinkov is a Russian-born Cypriot entrepreneur and businessman.
X5 Group is Russia's largest food retailer. In 2012, the organization of X5-Retail Group LLC was liquidated, and in 2018 X5 Group LLC was opened.
Red&White is a Russian retailer with a network of eponymous self-service shops. The network bills itself as "shopping at home." Although the shops have a wider range of products than liquor stores, their main business is the sale of prepackaged alcoholic beverages. The head office is located in Chelyabinsk. Also, the company has 18 regional offices.
Fix Price is a Russia-based chain of discount variety stores. At the end of 2022, the chain of stores consisted of 5,663 stores in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Armenia. As of October 2023, the company has 6,141 stores.
DNS Retail is the owner of a Russian retail chain specialising in the sale of computers, electronics, and household goods, and also a manufacturer of computer hardware including laptops, tablets and smartphones. In 2019, it became the 6th-largest retail company in Russia, and in 2021, DNS was the 22nd-largest private company in Russia. As of 2021, there are more than 2,000 branches across Russia, and in May 2021, the first branches were opened in Kazakhstan. The company's headquarters are located in Vladivostok.
Allo is a Ukrainian group of companies operating as a marketplace in online and classic retail and electronics distribution. It is headquartered in Dnipro, Ukraine. The group also operates its own postal service Allo Express.
Vkusno i tochka is a Russian fast food chain based in former McDonald's restaurants, with a menu that largely consists of rebranded McDonald's items. McDonald's closed their Russian stores in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Vkusno i tochka restaurants mostly occupy former McDonald's restaurants that were sold to business magnate and entrepreneur Alexander Govor, who was a company licensee in Siberia.
Leonid Dovladbegyan is a Russian and Armenian entrepreneur, top manager, and venture capitalist. From 2019 to July 2022, he has been the CEO of Vprok.ru Perekrestok.
Vkusvill - is a Russian food retail chain founded by Andrey Krivenko in 2012 in Moscow. As of March 2023, VkusVill has more than 1,350 stores in 72 Russian cities.
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