Features - Russia

Sustainability 2022 – Anna Meleshina, Corporate Relations and Sustainability Director, Magnit

In the most recent edition of ESM, as part of our Sustainability 2022 feature, we spoke to a number of top executives working across the global retail and...

Yandex.Lavka's Maxim Avtukhov Talks To ESM

Express grocery delivery is the buzzword in European retail at the moment, and few operators have set the bar as high as Russia's Yandex.Lavka, which promi...

The Private Label Issue - Magnit

As part of ESM's annual Private Label Issue, we spoke to Ekaterina Lobanova, procurement director at Russian retailer Magnit, about how the retailer sees p...

'Profitable Growth', M&A Activity In Focus For Russia's Magnit, CEO Tells ESM

Russian retailer Magnit is seeking to drive profitable growth from its existing assets, while also engaging in M&A activity that is value accretive...

Next-Generation Convenience - ESM Meets Sergei Goncharov, CEO of Pyaterochka

Russian retailer Pyaterochka, part of X5 Retail Group, is using the COVID-19 pandemic to double down on its convenience offering, as CEO Sergei Goncharov t...

Rebuilding A Retail Giant – ESM Meets Magnit Chief Executive Jan Dunning

With more than 20,000 stores, Russia's Magnit is an undisputed retail behemoth. But the bigger you are, the more potential there is for cracks to start to...

Thinking Smart – How Perekrestok Is Preparing For The Future

Russian retailer Perekrestok is investing in online and food-to-go as it seeks differentiation in a challenging marketplace. Ben Webb met Vladislav Kurbato...

ESM: A Year In Retail – Sergei Goncharov, Pyaterochka, Issue 6 2018

In the run up to Christmas 2018, ESM is proud to present a recap of some of our biggest articles of the year, exclusively for Premium website subscribers....

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