Russia

In a major expansion move, Ukraine's largest confectioner in terms of annual production capacity Roshen is to build a third plant in Russia at a cost of about US$250mn. It is expected... 2010-09-24

Russia's two largest grocery retailers by annual sales X5 and Magnit (both listed on the London Stock Exchange) have been reporting some of the strongest annual sales growth figures... 2010-09-20

Carlsberg expects its key emerging European markets, namely Russia, to return to year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in 2011. While we agree and expect headline volume growth of 1.9% in Russia,... 2010-09-16

The fruit juice industry will comfortably outperform bottled water and carbonates in Russia over BMI's 2014 forecast period. Driven by strong momentum built up over the past few years,... 2010-09-13

Russia's beer industry has been hit by a near perfect storm over the past 18 months. A combination of weak household spending compounded by a big spike in excise taxes from January... 2010-09-09

Leading Russian dairy-focused consumer goods giant Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) has reported 7.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) H1 (to June 2010) net income growth to US$69.5mn, while revenues grew... 2010-09-03

Coca-Cola has completed the acquisition of a 100% stake in the Russia's fourth largest fruit juice company, Nidan, in a deal that BMI believes will mean it climbs above PepsiCo to become... 2010-09-02

After exiting Russia in H209 (calendar) just a few months after launching its first store, Carrefour's Chief Executive Lars Olofsson has announced that the retail giant plans to re-enter... 2010-09-01

Although Russia's largest retailer by annual sales X5 posted below consensus earnings for Q210 (financial year ending December), its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and... 2010-08-27

Although we expect consumer confidence in Russia to remain fundamentally weak over H210 (calendar), with retrenchment continuing to have a large bearing on expenditure, it is coming... 2010-08-25