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X5 Retail Group To Test Three Innovative Labelling Technologies For Quality Control

Russian food retailer X5 Retail Group has said that it is testing three unique labelling technologies to ensure the consistent quality of its products....

Lenta Opens First Dedicated Vegetable Storage Facility

Russian retailer Lenta has announced the opening of its first dedicated vegetable storage facility in the Ryazan Region, southeast of Moscow. The new fa...

X5 Continues Russian Expansion With Acquisition Of 99 Ufa Stores

Russia's X5 Retail Group has completed its acquisition Ufa Grocery, which includes 99 former Polushka stores located in Bashkortostan. As part of the tr...

Lenta Sales Up 19%, Driven By Russian Expansion Plan

Russian retailer Lenta has announced that total sales grew by 19.2% to RUB 265.2 billion in 2017, driven by the group's ongoing expansion plans. Adjuste...

Dixy Rolls Out Alipay To Attract Chinese Customers

Russian retailer Dixy has announced that it is the first major grocer in the country to introduce the Alipay payment system into its stores. The company...

Russian 'Promo Addicts' Find Recession Retail Habits Hard To Break

Russians are still hooked on shopping habits that got them through the country’s worst recession this century as the economy lurches out of recovery...

Russian Oligarch Walks Away From His $8 Billion Retail Empire

In 1998, Sergey Galitskiy opened a small grocery in his hometown of Krasnodar, 800 miles south of Moscow. Over the next two decades he expanded that mod...

X5 Retail Expands Distribution Network As Online Business Grows

Russia's X5 Retail Group has announced plans to open two new dark stores in Moscow and St. Petersburg by the end of 2018, as the retailer expands its onlin...