Mayor of Chelyabinsk Mikhail Yurevitch met the management of Moscow Company Metro Cash and Carry. Their German partner Metro Croup is thinking of setting up a wholesale trade center in Chelyabinsk, so the company’s management appealed to the city Administration asking for an allotment of 5 hectares of land. The investments are predicted to come to 18 to 20 million euro.

‘The issue is currently under consideration; the meeting can be classed as successful and we gave our principal consent to this project. For the time being, we have to obtain some data specifying the particular patch in a particular district from Metro Cash and Carry,’ Deputy Mayor Jean Mesentsev said to UrBC representative.

Metro Cash and Carry is the subsidiary of German Metro Croup and deals in professional wholesale trade targeted at sole traders, commercial and non-commercial organizations, small and medium enterprises. The Center in Chelyabinsk is to become their 14th location (6 stores have already been opened in Moscow and 8 are functioning in other Russian regions).