Spar-Kaliningrad grocery chain (operates more than 70 Spar stores in the Kaliningrad region) Oleg Ponomarev, chairman of the retailer's board of directors, told Vedomosti that he is considering buying shares in local companies involved in the cultivation of root crops, in particular potatoes .
Negotiations on the purchase of 50%, according to him, are underway with several manufacturers. With the help of investments of "hundreds of millions of rubles" in a local producer, Spar expects to solve the problem of the shortage and high cost of vegetables from the "borscht set" in the network, he says.Ponomarev adds that the partners will provide a certain volume of production, and the Spar network will provide product sales.
The Spar-Kaliningrad network is managed by Euroritale LLC. The company is 99% owned by Sergey Vorontsov, 1% by Lev Chunaev. Euroritale's revenue under RAS in 2024 increased by 19.2% to 28.4 billion rubles, net profit increased by 14 times to 280.1 million rubles.
Spar develops networks of super and hypermarkets Spar, Spar Express, EuroSpar, InterSpar. The first Russian Spar was opened in Nizhny Novgorod in 2001.
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