OREANDA-NEWS. January 28, 2009. OJSC “Company “M.video” (RTS, MICEX: MVID), one of the Russia’s largest consumer electronics retailers, announced today its unaudited net retail sales, like-for-like (LfL) performance and expansion results for the full year of 2008 and the 4th quarter 2008.

In 2008 M.video demonstrated 41% year-on-year growth of its net retail sales in Russian roubles terms (43% growth in USD terms) and 11% year-on-year growth of LfL sales in RUR terms (14% in USD terms) as compared to FY2007.

In Q4 2008 M.video increased its net retail sales by 25% in RUR terms (13% increase in USD terms) and demonstrated flat year-on-year LfL performance in RUR terms (-9% in USD terms due to the Russian rouble depreciation against the US dollar) as compared to Q4 2007.

M.video opened 37 new hypermarkets in 2008 (17 in the 4th quarter 2008) as compared to the same number of new stores opened the year before. The total number of the Company’s hypermarkets reached 157 stores located in 64 cities of Russia versus 122 stores in 48 Russian cities opened by the end of 2007. The total space of M.video stores amounted to 416,500 sq.m as of December 31, 2008 demonstrating a 29% increase as compared to FY2007. The Company entered 16 new cities throughout 2008.

The group’s net debt position1 as of December 31, 2008 amounted to RUR 1.0 billion (gross debt of RUR 7.4 billion and cash and cash equivalents of RUR 6.4 billion).

The management of OJSC “Company “M.video” will hold a conference call on January 28, 2009 at 4.00 pm Moscow time (1.00 pm London, 8.00 am New York) to discuss the operational results of FY 2008 and to give comments on 2009 performance.

Dial-in numbers to access the conference call are as follows:
+44 (0) 203 003 2666 (International)
8 499 272 43 37 (Russia)
Participants will have to quote the Company’s name (“M.video”) when dialing into the conference.

The conference call will be held in English.

To help ensure the conference begins in a timely manner, we kindly ask all participants to dial in 5 to 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.