March 25, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) obtained 76% more proceeds from sales of goods and services in 2014 compared with 2013; the figure came to 12.3bn RUR (VAT excluded); the company’s net profit rose to 129.4m RUR, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The number of Omsktransmash employees went up by 14%: there were 4,168 people working for the plant at the end of 2014; in March 2015, the number came to over 5,000 people. The average monthly pay was 10.9% better than in 2013 and came to 28,095 RUR,’ the press service says. This year,

March 25, 2015. Starting from May 2015, no more flights will be operated from Yekaterinburg to Thailand as this destination is no longer profitable, director of Natalie Tours Yekaterinburg branch Oleg Higer informed UrBC. ‘These flights used to be operated all the year round for the last three years. However, this is no longer the case. Flights for March and April have already been scheduled, yet beginning in May, all of them will be cancelled. This means the only way to get to Thailand will be from Moscow,’ Higer explained. He says the demand for trips to Thailand has been plummeting, since

March 25, 2015. Unilever, household cleaning goods manufacturer and the owner of the Urals-based Concern Kalina, announced its prices would rise by up to 114% in April 2015, RBC reports. Unilever RUS reports all of its ex-works prices would go up on April 1, 2015. According to the distributor’s website, the price increase has to do with the dramatic weakening of the Russian ruble over the last few months. For one, the distributor says the prices of 100 Rezeptov Krasoty products will increase by 2% to 114%, those of Chistaya Liniya products will go up by 2% to 56%. The enterprise also makes a

March 25, 2015. First Freight Company makes its public offers 5% to 20% less expensive to customers depending on the type of rolling stock used; this is part of the company’s customer-oriented technologies program, the freight forwarder reports. The company has been running public tender offers since 2011; the offer is targeted at small and medium enterprises which need to use the company’s rolling stock for relatively small shipments. Under the terms of the offer, First Freight Company provides its railway carriages to the customer for a ten-day period after the payment has been made in the