May 6, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his Plenipotentiary Representative in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh to draw up a development plan for Nizhniy Tagil; this happened when the President met with his representative and some members of the city community recently, RBC reports. ‘I propose the following: let us have a single plan for both the city and Sverdlovsk Region and point out the cases when federal support is going to be indispensable,’ Putin said. During the meeting, the local public representatives spoke about problems such as lighting the streets, the need for

May 6, 2013. 3,000 employees of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant took part in the annual clean-up Saturday, the corporation’s press service reports. Under the Director General’s order, all of Uralvagonzavod’s structural divisions had to make sure some of their employees took part in the event on April 24-27. Cleaning up the company premises and the streets of the neighboring Dzerzhinsky District is one of the corporation’s old-time customs. The streets look quite dirty after the long winter and during the snow-melting period, so cleaning up is a necessary

May 6, 2013. On April 25-26, the 11th Young Workers Conference took place at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant. This year’s reports had one theme in common: the corporation’s development potential in the context of entering the global economy, the corporation’s press service reports. Supporting the young employees’ activity and improving their professional skills as well as getting them involved in the company life were the main goals of the conference coordinators. More than 600 young workers and managers from 117 divisions of the corporation took part in

May 6, 2013. The Labor & Employment Department of the Turkish Province of Hatay declared MMK Metalurji (a member of MMK Group) the winner of the Best Employer contest in 2012, MMK PR Department reports. The Labor & Employment Department of the Turkish Province of Hatay, where ММК Metalurji facilities are located, spoke very highly of the company’s contribution to creating jobs in the area and thanks MMK top management for their efficient interaction with the local authorities and improving the situation on the local labor market. The awarding ceremony took place in Antalya on April

May 6, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant (ChTPZ), Russia’s leading pipe good manufacturer and supplier of integrated solutions for the O&G sector, came up with a performance report for 2012. The company’s revenues went up by 3% last year and amounted to 116,882m RUR, the company’s press service reports. The plant’s gross profit increased by 8% against 2011, its EBITDA rose by 17% and came to 20,210m RUR, which was the record figure in the last 5 years. Its EBITDA margin rose by 2.2% and amounted to 17.3%. The increase had to do with larger volumes of weldless pipe shipments, including

May 6, 2013. Yekaterinburg is now third in the national rating in terms of the number of hypermarkets operating here, INFOLine Information Agency’s website states. Remarkably, even though there are quite a few big supermarkets already present there, it was Saint Petersburg where most new hypermarkets opened last year – Prisma-3, Auchan, Okay and Russia’s currently only FMCG K-Ruoka run by KESKO Group – seven stores altogether. INFOLine analysts looked at over 240 non-capital cities with the population of over 50,000 people and found out that there are now hypermarkets in 130 out of the 240