OREANDA-NEWS  The new owner of two IKEA plants, the Russian company Luzales, will retain all jobs for employees of these enterprises. Such a requirement was one of the terms of the deal, Ruslan Semenyuk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luzales LLC, told RBC.

He claims that now "most of the collective" of enterprises is working. "The message is that all people should be at work, wages should not be reduced. And this was one of the main conditions of the legal commission, so that the working collective in these areas lived and worked and the enterprises could continue to function," Semenyuk explained.

According to him, Luzales is going to acquire two IKEA plants — in Vyatka (Kirov region) and Tikhvin (Leningrad region). "All the conditions have been negotiated, all the agreements have been observed, so we are now waiting for a legal solution to the issue. IKEA's intentions are to finish it [the deal] in the near future, we support this idea, the government of the Russian Federation also supports us in this, so that this story can be finished as soon as possible," Semenyuk said. He promised that the plants could start working in February.