Amsterdam, 2018-Jan-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: FIVE), announces that RAEX rating agency (“RAEX”) has assigned X5 a long-term credit rating of ruAA with a stable outlook.
RAEX in its press release outlines the key factors contributing to this credit rating, which include…
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, 2017-Dec-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: FIVE), announces that RAEX rating agency (“RAEX”) has assigned X5 a long-term credit rating of ruAA with a stable outlook.
RAEX in its press release outlines the key factors contributing to this credit rating,…
MOSCOW, Russia, 2017-Dec-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, ("X5" or the "Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: FIVE), and Mail.Ru Group have launched a partnership to measure the impact of targeted online advertising on offline sales. The solution has already been tested by the global media group Dentsu Aegis Network.
The partnership…
Moscow, 2017-Jun-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. ("X5" or "the Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: "FIVE"), announces that Svetlana Demyashkevich has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer effective from 29 June 2017. Dmitry Gimmelberg has decided to leave the Company, but will temporarily stay on as Advisor to…
Moscow, 2017-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group ("X5" or the "Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: FIVE), announces the signing of a letter of intent with the government of the Ulyanovsk region. The document was signed by Ulyanovsk region Governor Sergey Morozov and Х5 Retail Group Government Relations Director Stanislav Naumov.
Pursuant to…
Perm, 2017-May-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, announces the development of its Urals logistics infrastructure with the opening of a distribution centre (DC) in Perm.
The logistics facility of over 23,500 sq m will supply Pyaterochka stores in the Perm Region (currently more than 280 stores). Featuring five…
Orenburg, 2017-Mar-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer, announces the development of its logistics infrastructure in the Southern Ural Region with the opening of a distribution centre (DC) in Orenburg.
The 19,000 sq m logistics facility will serve the Pyaterochka chain in the Orenburg Region…
Moscow, 2017-Feb-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. ("X5" or the "Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: "FIVE"), announces that in 2016, around 20,000 of its customers donated more than 27.5 tons of food to people in need as part of the 'Basket of Kindness' programme, which is organised jointly…
Moscow, 2017-Feb-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. ("X5" or the "Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: "FIVE"), today ( 2 February 2017) announces a strategic retail partnership programme with the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) to test early-stage innovative projects and implement the best solutions in its business processes.
Under the partnership, the IIDF…
Moscow, 2016-Oct-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. ("X5" or "the Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the launch of GoCargo, the Company’s proprietary solution for booking cargo transportation services online. The new service enables senders to place shipping orders, and distributes them among registered private carriers based on…
Moscow, 2016-Oct-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. ("X5" or "the Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the signing of a cooperation agreement between Pyaterochka and VimpelCom.
The first stage entails the opening of 950 Beeline branded outlets and points of sale in Pyaterochka stores this year. The project will…
Moscow, 2016-Oct-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. ("X5" or "the Company"), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the offering of its RUB 15 billion 001P-01 series ruble-denominated bonds, issued by LLC X5 Finance.
The coupon rate on the bonds, which have a put option after 3 years, is set at…
Maykop, Russia , 2016-Aug-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the opening of two distribution centres (DC) in the Republic of Adygeya as part of the Company’s strategy to develop its logistics infrastructure in the South of Russia. The state-of-the-art…
Moscow, 2016-Aug-17 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), today (16 August 2016) announces appointments to the senior management team.
Dmitry Gimmelberg has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with effect from 17 August.
X5 Retail Group CEO Igor Shekhterman said:
“Dmitry Gimmelberg has…
Novosibirsk, 2016-Aug-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, announces the launch of its operations in the Siberian Federal District and the creation of Pyaterochka’s Siberian Division.
Between 5 and 12 August, five Pyaterochkas were opened in Novosibirsk. The stores, with a total area of 2,890 sq m, are fully in…
Orenburg, Russia, 2016-Aug-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, announces the opening of its 8,000th store in Russia. The milestone opening is a new Karusel hypermarket in Orenburg (149/2 Turkestanskaya St.).
The nearly-5.5 thousand sq m store has selling space of 3.5 thousand sq m, was custom built for X5,…
Moscow, Russia, 2016-Feb-08 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group commissioned six new distribution centres (DCs) with a total area of 142 thousand sq. m. in 2015. The DCs service X5’s retail network across a number of high-potential geographies: the Kaluga, Voronezh and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as Moscow and Tatarstan.
Four of the new…
MOSCOW, 2016-Feb-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, and the Rus Food Foundation, Russia’s first food bank, are pleased to announce the preliminary results of the Basket of Kindness initiative to provide food support to disadvantaged families.
From August to December, over 2,500 customers in Moscow, St Petersburg, Perm…
Krasnodar, 2015-12-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the opening of its 7,000th store in Russia and a more than 1.5x year-on-year increase in the expansion rate of its retail chains. Since the beginning of the year, X5 has opened…
Krasnodar, RUSSIA, 2015-12-17 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the opening of its 7,000th store in Russia and a more than 1.5x year-on-year increase in the expansion rate of its retail chains. Since the beginning of the year, X5 has opened more…
Moscow, 2015-12-3 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, and the Rus Food Foundation have launched Basket of Kindness, a nationwide initiative to provide food aid to those in need across Russia. Rus Food Foundation is the Russian arm of the Global FoodBanking Network.
The Basket of Kindness organisers have…
MOSCOW, 2015-12-2 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, and Rospechat, a leading Russian newspaper and magazine distribution agency, announce the signing of a cooperation agreement to open 100 Rospechat outlets selling print media and stationery at Pyaterochka stores. 20 outlets will open by the end of the year, with…
Amsterdam, 2015-11-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the results of the Company’s Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders (“EGM”) held on 12 November 2015 at Parkstraat 20, 2514 JK, The Hague, The Netherlands.
All of the resolutions proposed to the EGM…
Moscow, 2015-10-30 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, announces the signing of a cooperation agreement between Pyaterochka and mobile phone retailer Euroset. The agreement involves the opening of 150 small-format Euroset outlets in Pyaterochka stores by late 2015, with 40 to be launched in Moscow and the Moscow…
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, 2015-10-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group held its capital markets day (“CMD”) in Moscow.
The schedule for the CMD included:
Morning: store visits hosted by Format Heads
Afternoon: Presentations and Q&A sessions with the X5 Retail Group CEO, CFO, Format Heads, Business Development Head
Evening: dinner for all participants
Three members of…
Moscow, 2015-10-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, has launched a partnership with the Rus Food Foundation, which provides food aid to vulnerable people across Russia. Ahead of World Food Day X5 has donated an initial consignment of goods worth approximately RUB 4 mln, with the Foundation taking…
Moscow, 2015-10-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announces the signing of a cooperation agreement between its Pyaterochka subsidiary and telecom operator Tele2. The agreement was signed at the Russia Calling investment forum in Moscow by Pyaterochka CEO Olga Naumova and Tele2 First Deputy CEO…
Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 2015-10-3 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), invites its shareholders and holders of global depository receipts (GDRs) to its Extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the “EGM”) to be held at Parkstraat 20, 2514 JK The Hague, The Netherlands at 11.00 CET…
Moscow, 2015-9-30 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” and/or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), has signed a RUB 24 bn long-term unsecured loan facility agreement with VTB Bank (“VTB” and/or the “Bank”) with tranches maturing in up to 3 years and an interest rate of the…
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015-9-21 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (‘X5’or the ‘Company’) filed the following notification to the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets regarding the acquisition of X5 Global Depositary Receipts (‘GDRs’) by Stephan DuCharme, CEO of X5:
Transaction date
Number of GDRs
Price per GDR
18-09-2015
1,500
USD 15.483
Following this acquisition Stephan DuCharme holds 100,334 GDRs,…