ELC OPENS THE EIGHTH SHOP IN ST. PETERSBURG

The «Detsky Mir»Group of Companies– Russia’s largest retail operator of children’s goods, announces the opening of a new ELC store.  

A new ELC store in St. Petersburg has opened its doors to customers in the “Rodeo Drive” shopping center at: Kulturny Avenue, 1A. its area is 80 sq. m. 

ELC has been creating high-quality, safe toys for over 40 years that contribute to the harmonious development of children and the study of the world around them. When developing toys, Elc attracts child psychologists to cooperation, leading designers and the most important specialists – children. 

Today, the Elc retail chain is represented by stores in Moscow and Russian regions: St. Petersburg, Surgut, Krasnodar, Sochi, Kursk, Samara, Smolensk, Saratov, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen, Tomsk, Ryazan, Mytishchi, Astrakhan, Voronezh, Petrozavodsk, Perm and Novorossiysk. Toys fron ELC can also be purchased in the online store: www.elc-russia.ru. 

The network of ELC stores in Russia is being developed by the «Detsky Mir» Group of Companies on a franchise basis. 

«DETSKY MIR» OPENED FIRST SHOP IN THE FAR EAST

The «Detsky Mir» Group of Companies – Russia’s largest operator of children’s goods – announces the opening of the first supermarket in Blagoveshchensk. 

The debut store of the Detsky Mir chain in Blagoveshchensk opened its doors for customers at the “Flagman”shopping center at Tenistaya st., 160. Its commercial area is 1000 sq. m. 

« «Detsky Mir» Group of Companies continues to implement the organic growth strategy of the network. With the opening of the first store in the Far east, the Detsky Mir Company is now represented in all the federal destricts of the country. By the end of the year, new stores will appear in this region in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan. Opening new supermarkets, we not only provide urban residents with high-quality children’s goods at affordable prices, but also create jobs, deduct taxes to local budgets, support orphanages and boarding schools», – said Nadezhda Kiseleva, head of the department of External and Internal Communications of “Detsky Mir”Group of Companies. 

The Detsky Mir network presents a wide range of products for children from 0 to 12 years old: clothes and shoes, goods and food for newborns, toys for boys and girls, goods for early andschool development of children and adolescents.  

ELC OPENS THE FIRST SHOP IN VORONEZH

The «Detsky Mir» Group of Companies – Russia’s largest operator of children’s goods, announces the opening of a new ELC store.

The ELC debut store in Voronezh opened its doors for customers in the shopping center “Galereya Chizhova” at Kukolkina st., 18. Its commercial area is 130 sq. m.

«Toys for the early development of children from the ELC network are well known to children and parents of 20 countries, including in Russia. I am sure that mothers and fathers of Voronezh will also appreciate the high quality of products», – said Alexander Roganov, General Director of ELC in Russia.

ELC has been creating high-quality, safe toys for over 40 years that contribute to the harmonious development of children and the study of the world around them. When developing toys, Elc attracts child psychologists to cooperation, leading designers and the most important specialists – children. Today, the ELC retail chain is represented by stores in Moscow and Russian regions: St. Petersburg, Surgut, Krasnodar, Sochi, Kursk, Samara, Smolensk, Saratov, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen, Tomsk, Ryazan, Mytishchi, Astrakhan, Voronezh, Petrozavodsk, Perm and Novorossiysk. Toys from ELC can also be purchased in the online store: www.elc-russia.ru.

The network of ELC stores in Russia is being developed by the Detsky Mir Group of Companies on a franchise basis.

Detsky Mir Opens Its New Stores in Moscow and Angarsk

The Detsky Mir Group of Companies (Children’s World), the largest children’s goods retailer in Russia, informs about opening new stores.

The new stores are located in:

• Moscow (Ulei shopping center, 24/1 Altufievskoe highway),with 700 sq m of selling space, Detsky Mir’s 177th store in Moscow Region;
• Angarsk (Schastie shopping center, 7 Kominterna street), with 800 sq m of selling space, Detsky Mir’s 2nd store in the city;

Detsky Mir’s product line includes a diverse range of goods for children aged from 0 to 12, including clothes and shoes, goods and food for newborns, toys for infant boys and girls, and goods for early years and school-age development of children and teenagers.

PNK Group will build a new distribution center for Detsky Mir in the “PNK Park Bekasovo”

Moscow region, Russia – PNK Group, Russian developer of industrial facilities, and Detsky Mir Group, Russia’s largest specialized children’s goods retailer, announce the signing of an agreement on the construction of a distribution center (DC) in the “PNK Park Bekasovo”, located in Naro-Fominsk city district of the Moscow region. The transaction agency was Colliers International.

The total investment is estimated at RUB 2.5bn, while the total area of the industrial building will be 62,000 sq m. It will be the retailer’s second facility at this PNK Park. The first Detsky Mir’s DC with an area of 70,000 sq m. was built in 2015.

Works on the project have already begun. The distribution centre will also have an office for administrative staff with an area of 2,500 sq m.

“We have witnessed the rapid development of both brick-and-mortar and online retail over the past few years. These are the companies that always need new high-quality warehouse premises built with the use of advanced technologies. In addition to the quality of a facility, the speed of its construction is ever-important. We plan to complete the construction of a distribution centre for Detsky Mir by as early as the end of 2018,” said Yuri Menukhov, Director of PNK Group.

“Detsky Mir is rapidly expanding its business: the company opens roughly 100 new supermarkets in Russia and Kazakhstan each year and actively develops e-commerce sales channels, which requires a massive logistics infrastructure. The opening of a modern logistics complex, which will be built by our partner PNK Group, will support the further development of our business in the coming years,” said Vladimir Chirakhov, the CEO of Detsky Mir Group.

“The active growth of Detsky Mir chain systematically leads to the development of the company’s logistics and the emergence of new modern distribution centers. A few years ago we signed the first contract for the construction of the warehouse in Bekasovo between PNK Group and Detsky mir chain. This project will allow the company to increase warehouse volumes within a single fleet, which will significantly simplify the management of warehouse logistics and save additional logistic costs,” said Eleonora Bogdanova, Regional Director, Warehouse & Industrial Direction, Colliers International.

 Company references:

PNK Group is a Russian real estate developer implementing full-cycle industrial projects. The group of companies was founded in 2004. PNK Group has 26 industrial parks with a total area of the facilities commissioned and in various phases of construction more than 4 million sq.m m in Russia, Europe and the USA.

In Moscow region PNK Group is developing seven industrial parks.

PNK Group operates four in-house plants producing major load-bearing structural components of buildings, the capacities of which allow developing more than 1 million sq. m of industrial real estate per year.

PNK Group builds industrial facilities conforming to international FM Global standards.

 Detsky Mir Group (MOEX: DSKY) is Russia’s largest specialized children’s goods retailer. The company operates a network of 650 stores, including 599 Detsky Mir stores in Russia and Kazakhstan located in 225 cities, as well as 51 ELC (Early Learning Centre) and ABC stores in Russia. The total selling space as of 30 June 2018 was approximately 704,000 square meters.

In accordance with the audited Financial Statements under IFRS for FY 2017, Group revenue amounted to RUB 97.0 bn., adjusted EBITDA totaled RUB 10.7 bn and adjusted profit amounted to RUB 5.5 bn..

Detsky Mir Group’s shareholder structure as of the date of this announcement is as follows: PJSC Sistema – 52.10%, Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF) – 14.03%, other shareholders owning less than 5% of the shares – 33.87%.

Learn more at www.detmir.ru, corp.detmir.ru and elc-russia.ru.

Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ and TSX: CIGI) is an industry leading global real estate services company with more than 15,400 skilled professionals operating in 69 countries.

With an enterprising culture and significant employee ownership, Colliers professionals provide a full range of services to real estate occupiers, owners and investors worldwide. Services include strategic advice and execution for property sales, leasing and finance; global corporate solutions; property, facility and project management; workplace solutions; appraisal, valuation and tax consulting; customized research; and thought leadership consulting.

Colliers professionals think differently, share great ideas and offer thoughtful and innovative advice that help clients accelerate their success. Colliers has been ranked among the top 100 outsourcing firms by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals’ Global Outsourcing for 12 consecutive years, more than any other real estate services firm.

Colliers International opened their office in Russia in 1994. Today, the offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg have more than 400 employees. Colliers International in Russia is a member of the Guild of Property Managers and Developers (GUD), the Russian Council of Green Building, the Russian Council of Shopping Centers (RCSC) and the Russian Managers Association.

Detsky Mir Opens Its New Store in Troitsk

The Detsky Mir Group of Companies (Children’s World), the largest children’s goods retailer in Russia, informs about opening a new store.

The new store opened in Troitsk, New Moscow (Akademicheskiy shopping center, 5 Akademicheskaya sq.), with 737 sq m of selling space, Detsky Mir’s 173rd store in Moscow region.

Detsky Mir’s product line includes a diverse range of goods for children aged from 0 to 12, including clothes and shoes, goods and food for newborns, toys for infant boys and girls, and goods for early years and school-age development of children and teenagers.

«DETSKY MIR» OPENED SECOND ABC STORE

«Detsky Mir» Group of Companies – Russia’s largest retail operator of children’s goods – announces the opening of a new ABC retail store.

The second ABC store was opened in Tula, in the Maxi shopping center at Proletarskaya st., 2. Its commercial area is 130 sq. m.

The first ABC store opened on May 31,2018 in Chelyabinsk. Shop area of 80 sq. m. Opened in the shopping center “Almaz” at Kopeisk highway, 64.

In the stores of the ABC network there are toys, designers, products for development and creativity for children from 0 to 14 years old. Customers will be able to purchase toys from well-known foreign manufacturers, such as LEGO, Hasbro и Mattel, as well as those released under their own brand ABC. The range of the ABC store has about 1500 SKU.

Thanks to the many years of experience of “Detsky Mir” Group of Companies in the segment of children’s products, visiting new ABC stores will bring positive emotions to both adults and small customers. ABC has professional consultants who will help you choose the right toys depending on the age and personal preferences of the child.

Detsky Mir Opens 600th Stores

The Detsky Mir Group of Companies (Children’s World), the largest children’s goods retailer in Russia, informs about opening a new store.

The new store opened in Saint-Petersburg (Leto shopping center, 25/1A Pulkovskoe highway), with 1,500 sq m of selling space, Detsky Mir’s 33rd store in the city.

Detsky Mir Group Head of External and Internal Communications Nadezhda Kiseleva said: “Detsky Mir is continuing to roll out its geographical expansion programme. Since the start of the year we have opened 26 stores. We will continue to grow our network”

Detsky Mir’s product line includes a diverse range of goods for children aged from 0 to 12, including clothes and shoes, goods and food for newborns, toys for infant boys and girls, and goods for early years and school-age development of children and teenagers.

Detsky Mir Decreased Prices For School Goods

The Detsky Mir Group of Companies (Children’s World), the largest children’s goods retailer in Russia, announces the start of sales of school products in the stores of the chain and the online store www.detmir.ru.

Detsky Mir offers everything you need for excellent study at affordable prices: clothes and shoes, backpacks and bags for school shoes, stationery and notebooks, as well as furniture and much more.

“Due to the growth in business scale and active cooperation with suppliers, we not only maintained, but even lowered the prices for school goods in comparison with last year. Our customers can rest assured that in Detsky Mir one can get ready for the new academic year quickly and with minimal costs,” said Nadezhda Kiseleva, Head of the Directorate for External and Internal Communications of Detsky Mir Group of Companies.

In 2018, the minimum cost of getting a boy ready for school was 4,643 rubles. (-6% as compared to 2017), and 4,043 rubles for a girl. (-9%).

The minimum cost of school goods in Detsky Mir chain of stores in 2018

Detsky Mir offers a wide choice of school uniforms by Russian manufacturers: Smena, Sky Lake, Caramelli, Dima i Alisa, Beloomutsk Garment Factory, Slavyanka Pskov Garment Factory. Young buyers can try on and buy comfortable and stylish leather shoes by Russian manufacturers Ralf Ringer, Midisa, Parizhskaya kommuna and European companies Andanines, Garvalin, Biomecanics.

Detsky Mir offers Chessford private label clothes and footwear at the lowest price. The collection fully complies with high Russian quality standards.

It will not be difficult for a student to choose a new backpack and fill it with stationery. Detsky Mir expanded the range of its private label Erhaft backpacks and still offers a wide range of office supplies Erich Krause, Luch, Bic, Grizzly, etc.

You can buy everything you need for school in the online store www.detmir.ru, the main advantage of which is time saving and prompt delivery of the order to your house.

ELC Opens a New Store In Saint-Petersburg

The Detsky Mir Group of Companies (Children’s World), the largest operator of children’s goods in Russia, informs about opening a new ELC store. 

The new ELC store in St. Petersburg opened its doors to customers in the shopping center “Pik” (2A, Efimova, st.), with 120 sq m of selling space,  ELC’s 7th store in the city.

The ELC Company has been making high-quality safe toys for more than 40 years already, they help children to develop harmoniously and get acquainted with the surrounding world. ELC invites children’s psychologists, well-known designers and the main experts – children for cooperation when working out toys.

The ELC retail chain  includes stores in Moscow and other regions of Russia: St. Petersburg, Surgut, Smolensk, Novorossiysk, Krasnodar, Sochi, Samara, Saratov, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen, Tomsk, Ryazan, Mytishchi, Astrakhan, Petrozavodsk. ELC toys can be also bought online: www.elc-russia.ru.

The ELC chain of stores in Russia is developed by the Detsky Mir Group of Companies on a franchise contract.