Swedish furniture manufacturer IKEA and the Spanish company Inditex, which owns the Zara and Bershka brands, are investigating the possibility of reconfiguring logistics in order to return to the Russian market, said Viktor Yevtuchow, deputy minister of industry and trade of the Russian Federation. .
“They have a very interesting format of work. IKEA is hard to replicate. But at the same time, they left Megas at work, completing the construction of two Megas, so they did not stop investing in construction. They say it is important for them that the assortment matrix is full, now everything will fall apart a bit, we will understand how to import products and we will open up, especially since IKEA invested itself, built its own megacentre, so abandoning them is clearly an ineffective move for them «- Jewtuchow said on the air of «People’s Question» «From ONF.
When it comes to Inditex, whose business model is based on updating the collection several times a season, the situation is similar — continued the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. «They say that we cannot deliver the goods on time, and selling the same stock is bad for us. Now they also say that the Russian market is very important to them» — emphasized Jewtuchow, noting that the sale of Zara products takes place only in one of the Moscow shopping malls were more than selling products in Europe.
“That’s why they obviously want to come back to our market. But if they don’t come back that is only a plus, as it opens up good opportunities for our producers, ”said Jewtuchow, reports RIA Nowosti.
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