HomeMaterials for March 2012 year
30 March 201209:24

Greenwich Shopping Center creates iPhone, Android app

Greenwich Shopping Center got a mobile app for iPhone and Android developed recently. The app can be downloaded from the online stores Android-Google Play and iPhone-AppStore’s official websites. Greenwich mobile app gives its users an opportunity to receive updates on all the news at the mall right onto their phones on a daily basis; the news is distributed via push notifications and widgets. The application can be downloaded with the help of a QR code or from Google and Apple’s official stores.
30 March 201209:24

Sverdlovsk Region buys more shares in Central Stadium

Sverdlovsk Region Government decided to buy four shares of Central Stadium, with face value of 1,000 RUR each; the shares are available through an additional share issue and will be purchased with the funds provided for by Sverdlovsk Region’s public property management and public property privatization program for 2012. Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Public Property Management was requested to sign a purchase and sale agreement and pay for the shares. The government’s decree to this extent was carried by Oblastnaya Gazeta today. ‘This purchase will secure Sverdlovsk Region’s blocking
30 March 201209:23

Ufaleynickel’s net loss goes up more than 475 times in 2011

Ufaleynickel incurred 689.05m RUR of net losses (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) in 2011, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 475.2 times, the company reports. Ufaleynickel’s revenues declined by 9% last year in comparison with the year 2010 and amounted to 8.08bn RUR; this includes revenues stemming from the sales of industrial produce (which went down by 3.8% and reached 6.22m RUR), Kommerant says.
30 March 201209:23

CIMM Co. Ltd delegates come to Karabashmed

A group of delegates from the Chinese company CIMM Co. Ltd visited Karabashmed. The delegation was headed by the company’s First Deputy DG Zhang Saoming; CIMM Co. Ltd is the company which is working on the copper enterprise’s project and supplies the machinery for its new vitriolic department. At the moment, presentations are being made on the vitriolic department equipment, and talks are being held by the technical experts. The parties are negotiating over the particular components of the equipment that could be supplied and over the terms of the contract. In the future, the two companies
30 March 201209:23

Strong drinks trader and Tszyu Boxing Academy clash in court

SECOM, the Ural Region-based strong drinks supplier, laid a claim against Kostya Tszyu Boxing Academy with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court; the plaintiff wants to get back 50,000 RUR it lent the defendant. The corresponding application was placed with the court on March 23, 2012. SECOM’s Legal Department explained to UrBC that the fund had been offered a 1m-RUR loan, but the remaining unpaid portion of the debt (50,000 RUR) had to be obtained through the court, despite all the existing agreements and the Academy’s promises to pay the money back. When UrBC reporter called the boxing
29 March 201209:19

Evraz Plc’s net profit goes down

Evraz Plc made $453m in terms of net profit by the end of 2011, which was 3.6% less than a year earlier, the company’s press service reports. At the same time, Evraz’s revenues increased by 22.4% last year and amounted to $16.4bn. The company’s EBITDA went up by 23.3% and reached $2.89bn. The enterprise’s gross profit soared by 27.7% and came to $3.92bn, while its operating profit increased by 39.8% and came to $1.86bn; the pre-tax profit rose by 37.9% and came to $873m. As of December 31, 2011, the company’s total debt amounted to $7.2bn (compared with $7.8bn at the end of 2010). Its net
29 March 201209:18

Criminal suit against Economic Affairs Minister still pending

‘We did receive a letter from Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities. The letter has been registered, so now our priority case investigation department is looking into the application. We have to decide whether to institute criminal proceedings against the region’s Economic Affairs Minister Evgeny Sofrygin, who is suspected of violating the migration law through exceeding Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign workers quota for 2012,’ the official representative of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Shulga told UrBC. Meanwhile, the public prosecution
29 March 201209:18

Kommersant: Nomos-Bank’s liabilities might hinder development

Nomos-Bank Group came up with a performance report for 2011 (compiled in accordance with the International Accounting Standards), Kommersant says. The Group’s net profit reached 12.1bn RUR by the end of 2011 against 7.4bn RUR in 2010. Nomos-Bank is the key business within a group comprising five other banks: Nomos-Regionbank, Nomos-Siberia, Inbank, Khanty-Mansiysky Bank, and Novosibirsk Municipal Bank, as well as a number of non-financial organizations. The bank’s primary stockholders are ICT Group and the Czech Republic-based PPF Group. Напомним, ОАО «Номос-банк» является головной структурой
28 March 201212:11

Innoprom exhibition in Yekaterinburg to be prolonged by one day

It was proposed that the duration of Innoprom exhibition in Yekaterinburg be prolonged from four to five days. This suggestion was voiced at the meeting dedicated to the upcoming event that was chaired by Governor Alexander Misharin. ‘It is important to give as many locals and visitors to the region a chance to visit the exhibition. In fact, the decision was actually taken as early as last year at the end of that summer’s exhibition, when many people said they wished the exhibition could last longer,’ the Governor said. This Ural International Exhibition/Forum for Industry & Innovations
28 March 201212:11

FIFA delegates to Yekaterinburg to look at Koltsovo Airport, Central Stadium, Historic Park

Some FIFA representatives and members of the World Cup 2018 coordination committee are planning to visit Yekaterinburg soon. The visit has been scheduled for May 14, 2012 and will probably be the last one before the officials decide whether Yekaterinburg is going to be among the hosting cities for the championship in 2018. First Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Sergey Shvindt announced at a special meeting on World Cup 2018 preparations that visitors to the Urals’ capital would take a look at Koltsovo Airport, Central Stadium, and Historic Park where a fans’ festival would be held.
28 March 201212:09

Ural Airlines’ Airbus 320 cockpit mock-up to be launched in April

Ural Airlines acquired its own cockpit mock-up to train its pilots to operate Airbus 320 planes, the company’s Deputy DG Alexei Fomin told the reporters. ‘The airline is launching its training center in April. We bought this Airbus 320 mock-up right off the conveyor belt, so it’s new and unused,’ he said at a press conference in Nizhniy Novgorod. Fomin explained that prior to the opening of this center, the company’s pilots had to undergo training on the outside foreign airlines’ equipment. ‘Now they can train at home and save money on all the travel expenses and business trips,’ he added.
28 March 201212:09

Lack of orders stops VSMPO-Avisma’s pipe-welding department

The pipe-welding department of VSMPO-Avisma Corporation had to stop operating temporarily in early March 2012, Interfax refers to the company as reporting. ‘At the beginning of March, after our order for Korea had been completed, all the jobs within the department were halted. The workers were offered temporary positions at the corporation’s other departments. At the moment, the order portfolio of the pipe-welding department is non-existent. The fact that the department has been left with no orders is sad but not tragic,’ the company reports. The halt is expected to last until the end of
27 March 201209:18

Denmark to join Innoprom 2012

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark in Russia Tom Risdahl Jensen informed Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin that a group of Danish delegates were planning to take part in Innoprom 2012. According to the Ambassador, the decision was taken thanks to the positive outcome of the Russian-Danish meetings that were held in Yekaterinburg in mid-March. The official also thanked the region’s Ministry for International and Foreign Economic Development for the organization of negotiations crucial to the Danish companies and of visits to the Urals-based
27 March 201209:18

Yekaterinburg police on the look-out for Autolime’s director

Yekaterinburg police officers are looking into the activity of Autolime motor show’s director. It is suspected that Ilnar E. (33), who dealt in the sales of used cars, disappeared out of sight with his customers’ money, the press office for Yekaterinburg Department of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry Main Administration told the reporters. In fact, these were Autolime’s employees who informed Police Department 9 on Thursday, March 22, that their director had been out of reach for a few days already. They said the director, Ilnar E., resided in Ufa, the Republic
27 March 201209:17

Toyota’s Yekaterinburg sales outstrip Chevrolet’s

According to Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg, 12,254 new automobiles were sold in Yekaterinburg in January and February 2012, which is 35%, or 3,054 cars more than in the two months of 2011. 7,029 cars were sold in the city in February alone, which was 39%, or 1,961 cars more than a year earlier. Lada is still by far the best-selling make on Yekaterinburg market. At the same time, the share of the Russian brand on the local market is going down: it used to come to 17% at the end of 2011 but amounted to only 14.6% at the end of February 2012. Significant changes can be observed among the top five
27 March 201209:17

Ural Airlines launches direct Nizhniy Novgorod-Prague flight

A direct air link has been introduced between Nizhniy Novgorod and Prague: Ural Airlines has launched a new scheduled flight. All of these flights will be operated using a modern and comfortable A 320 plane. Tickets are available for ?230. The flight will be operated every Saturday. Thanks to the convenient timetable, all those willing to travel from Prague to any other destination in Europe can do so: an interline agreement between Ural Airlines and the national Czech air carrier Czech Airlines allows for a one-time check-in which means a passenger gets a single ticket and can check in his
27 March 201209:16

RosTransAvto offers MITSUBER tower cranes for rent

In order to meet its customers’ needs, RosTransAvto is now offering them the services relating to the delivery and renting of tower cranes. ‘Customers can both buy or rent our MITSUBER tower cranes as well as order the assembling and dismantling of the machinery we supply,’ RosTransAvto reports. Among the strong points of MITSUBER building tower cranes is the electronic and electric equipment manufactured by the French concern Shneider Electric; what is more, the cranes are fully adjusted for operation in Russia and the CIS member states at temperatures ranging from -40 to +40 degrees