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Artgen

Histograft, part of Artgen Biotech, has started clinical trials of gene-activated osteoplastic material for the treatment of patients with degenerative-dystrophic spine diseases. Material is already approved for clinical use in trauma practice, but to date no clinical data have been accumulated for large-scale introduction of the product into this segment of...

Sollers

Sollers Group has received a soft loan of ₽3.4 billion from the Industrial Development Fund. Funds will be used to organize the stamping of about 120 car body and cabin parts. Serial production is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2025. Total production volume for the needs of Sollers Atlant and Sollers Argo models will be up to 40 thousand sets pe...

Magnit

Chain of hard discounters B1 has opened 55 stores in Moscow and the Moscow region in less than a year. In 2024, the company plans to open several hundred outlets and enter new regions. B1 operates under the EDLP model - low prices every day without promos, offering customers goods at affordable prices through deep optimization of business processes in stores...

Mosgorlombard

Number of loans issued by Mosgorlombard in 2023 amounted to 287.4 thousand units, up 28% year-on-year. Loan portfolio grew by 71% to ₽1.166 billion. Share of items held in the portfolio for more than 90 days decreased from 50% to 16% over the year. Number of unique customers increased by 37% to 90,100.

NovaBev Group

Beluga Group's total shipments in 2023 amounted to 16.6 million decaliters, up 1% year-on-year. Shipments of own products decreased by 4% to 13.3 million decaliters. Sales of partner imported brands increased by 23%. Number of VinLab stores increased by 306 over the year to more than 1,650 outlets and sales volume grew by 35%.

Globaltrans Investment

Kazakhstan-based AQNIET CAPITAL LLP has acquired the stakes of three major shareholders of Globaltrans, Nikita Mishin, Konstantin Nikolaev and Sergey Maltsev, and now indirectly owns 26.19% of the company. AQNIET also entered into an agreement to acquire 4.45% of the voting shares from Alexander Eliseev and another unrelated shareholder. Beneficial owner of...

LUKOIL

Lukoil's Nizhny Novgorod refinery, one of Russia's largest, has completely shut down one of the two catalytic cracking units that produce high-octane gasoline due to an accident. Company will now have to look for a replacement for the failed Western equipment. Kommersant's interlocutors say that Lukoil will try to complete repairs at this unit before spring....

Nebius Group

Service Yandex.Lavka will open darkstores on a franchise basis in order to scale its presence in the regions. Similar projects have been implemented by large marketplaces and a number of offline retailers, but have not been seriously developed. Market participants believe that it is difficult for delivery operators to control the quality of goods and service...

Sistema

Cosmos Hotel Group will build a resort with a five-star hotel on the shore of the Caspian Sea in Dagestan. Construction will start not earlier than 2025, and the volume of investments will amount to about ₽5 billion, said the president of the company, Alexander Biba. There is also a great demand for premium hotels in Altai and the Moscow region, Cosmos Hotel...

Detsky Mir

Detsky Mir's Board of Directors has proposed that shareholders decide to liquidate the company. Shareholders' meeting will be held on February 14.