Английская Википедия:Azbuka Vkusa

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Файл:Azbuka vkusa, Moscow, Kashirskoye Highway.JPG

A store on 78 Kashirskoe Motorway, Moscow

Azbuka Vkusa (Шаблон:Lang-ru), translated in English as Alphabet of Taste, is a premium supermarket chain founded by Maxim Koscheenko and Oleg Lytkin. The first store was opened in Moscow in 1997. As of 2015, it operated 90 stores in Moscow, Petersburg and its suburbs.

Ownership

The founders, Maxim Koshcheenko and Oleg Lytkin control more than 50% of Gorodskoi Supermarket Ltd, a company which operates the chain. 6.9% of the company belongs to the top 14 network managers. Much of the rest of the company is in the hands of VMHY Holdings Limited, owned by the former owners of "Expobank" - Andrey Vdovin, Cyril Jakubowski, Paul and Peter Maslowski Hambro, who gradually acquired control from the other two co-founders of the network - Oleg and Sergey Vereshchagin Trykin. As of 2011 Oleg and Sergey Vereshchagin Trykin ceased being shareholders in VMHY Holdings. As of 2013 more than 12% of the network owned by the sons Paul Maslovskoye - Yuri and Alexei.

Private Labels

Azbuka Vkusa launched their store brands in 2011.

Azbuka Vkusa has expanded steadily since 1997, balancing external acquisitions and internal growth. The table below charts that growth using figures provided courtesy of the company.

Year	Revenue in US Dollars	Number of Stores	Floor Space in m²
1997	Unavailable	1	223
1998	Unavailable	2	949
2001	Unavailable	3	1 639
2003	Unavailable	6	3 941
2004	Unavailable	8	4 372
2005	102 000 000	11	5 671
2006	177 000 000	19	11 122
2007	303 000 000	22	14 472
2008	315 000 000	24	16 190
2009	393 000 000	26	17 920
2010	568 000 000	40	27 355
2011	806 000 000	47	32 154
2012	879 000 000	53	37 066
2013	1 200 000 000	64	46 960
2014	1 600 000 000	90	60 000