OREANDA-NEWS. October 15, 2010. Due to actively propagated rumours MMC Norilsk Nickel (MMC Norilsk Nickel or the Company) states that at no point in time did the Company ever had plans to transfer sales of its products to any other company, reported the press-centre of Norilsk Nickel.

The Company’s strategy implies proactive positioning in the consumer markets for its products and development of direct relationships with customers. It is due to the Company’s own sales network, that MMC Norilsk Nickel achieved high sales results during the crisis years of 2008 and 2009. This performance was unanimously highly assessed by the Company’s Board of Directors on numerous occasions. 

The rumours are being spread by a foreign competitor who is interested in gaining control over MMC Norilsk Nickel operations, which is detrimental to the Company’s shareholders and the Russian State. 

This exercise in wishful thinking is also harmful to the consumers of NN products the majority of which understand the true nature of these pretensions to our company and are afraid of loosing an independent reliable supplier that is outside control of market manipulators.

MMC Norilsk Nickel declares that these rumours have nothing to do with reality and are part of a large scale disinformation campaign organized against MMC Norilsk Nickel.